NEW RELEASE coming 13 JAN 2023 on Orphanology / Bluesanct!
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New addition to the Orphanology "alphabet series"
UNCERTAIN "The Descending Spirals of Time" (ORPHAN00U)
Florian-Ayala Fauna is a Buffalo, New York-based trans-femme, intersex interdisciplinary artist who knows something about productive darkness and antagonizing binaries, and who shies away from neither the sublime nor the terrifying. Her latest full-length under the name Uncertain, The Descending Spirals of Time, is a sonically and emotionally deep exploration of magic and pain.
The Descending Spirals of Time shares something in common aesthetically with Coil and early Current 93. (Fauna in fact has collaborated with Coil member Stephen Thrower.) Of course this isn’t only about electric lighting, and if the world is operating at a kind of deficit of productive darkness, it may be through the work of people like Florian-Ayala Fauna that we can recover some of those lost shadows.
As a trans and intersex person, as a practitioner of esoteric magick, and as a person who experiences very real visions on account of temporal lobe epilepsy, Florian-Ayala Fauna, as Uncertain, pushes against various veils and borders, exploring and antagonizing tidy divisions between worlds, between identities. The assemblage and transformation of samples and field recordings into greater works parallels a kind of transfiguration of the body, while the resulting work itself exalts magick and repels fascist realities, emotionally and aesthetically conveying extreme experiences and conjuring catharsis.
RIYL: Current 93, Coil, Puce Mary, Cindytalk, Cyclobe, Ramleh, Pain Chain, Drekka, Genital Shame, Pharmakon, Throbbing Gristle
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