The Burning of Icarus and the March Towards Concord

 
French magazine, Obskure posted a review of 'FluiD / John 3:16 - The Pursuit of Salvation' (ALRN024 / VL001).
The original review is in French, below is the English translation:


"... Alrealon Musique continues its' initiative of collaborative works between its' artists which started with the remarkable compilation 'Alrealon Musique presents: Tomorrow’s Universe' (ALRN016). This time, FluiD and John 3:16 dialogue in a split-EP which echoes the motivating experience of the digital single 'Guardian'. 

Troubling ambient lines carried by a Reznor-like piano, insistent volutes of guitar, anaemic rhythmic canvases, combine to produce an aesthetics of the fall, which thrills the listener. The wings on the cover (a Trey Crim design) evokes a blazing Icarus, who would only be saved by burning himself. The titles of the tracks invoke this same mystical symbolic system, between angels, god, light and Red Sea, the rare voices being reduced to vibrating whispers (Forewarning). When the atmosphere is getting heavier (Plague), the mix focuses on, with fewer echoes, along with the intrusion of an emancipating synth. 

John 3:16 announces with his two 6-minute-long tracks, noisy guitars that would evolve in the highest spheres of Zen. The evolution towards concord appears unquestionable..."

Many thanks to Sylvain of Obskure Magazine for publishing the review

Listen, Purchase, Download...

Forewarning, new track posted to Soundcloud

"...Forewarning merges rickety accelerated beats and a female voice in the middle of demonic sounds." (Bad Alchemy Magazine, 2012).

Read more of German magazine Bad Alchemy's review of 'The Pursuit of Salvation', here



Forewarning is available on the Alrealon Musique release,
'FluiD / John 3:16 - The Pursuit of Salvation' (ALRN024/VL001).

You can purchase, 'The Pursuit of Salvation', here

"...their souls are worlds apart..."

Webzine, Damned By Light, has published a review of  'FluiD / John 3:16 - The Pursuit of Salvation'.

Below is an excerpt from the review:

"...Often when you get your filthy hands upon a split release, you never quite know how far apart the split world lay. Specially in cases such as this when it’s first contact to the bands at hand.
Both FluiD and John 3:16 could be said to represent a sort of abstract industrial music and while they share similarities in sound, their souls are worlds apart..."

Read the review in full, here.

Many thanks to Damned By Light for reviewing, 'The Pursuit of Salvation'!

"... one heavenly and one hellish"

From German magazine, Bad Alchemy:

"...Christophe Gilmore, the Alrealon Musique artist based in Chicago, describes himself explicitly as an "Afro-Futurist". As an African-American Creole, splitting and double coding are familiar to him as are smooth transitions. FluiD follows the path of subduxtion, using jazz-rock as well as dub, trip-hop and illbient. This politically conscious and generally committed artist performs in the first part of 'The Pursuit of Salvation' (ALRN024), a 12" vinyl split with Alrealon Musique founder Philippe Gerber, known here as the apostolic John 3:16.

With 'Disrupting the Ghost', from his Alrealon Musique debut album 'Envisioning Abstraction: The Duality of FluiD' (ALRN008), the artist had already demonstrated, through his arabesque vocal samples over creaking minimal beats, his congeniality of spirit with Techno Animal, Scorn, Muslimgauze. As a counter argument to the alleged culture-clash, he can dance a universal hybrid, under whose feet all contradictions disappear into the Dub-floor. It seems that they are just nightmares, but what do we mean by "just"?

Your ghosts and fears are real, that is what FluiD seems to suggest with the menacing 'Angels pt. II'. The angels are no cute guardians but sinister bouncers of God's mills, slow in motion but undeniably following their course. Here, the angel choir only sings timid "Ah" and "Oh", while being beaten up and crushed. Plague reinforces the apocalyptic undertone with train gears, slow beats, whisper ”ish” singing and Day of Wrath organ. Forewarning merges rickety accelerated beats and a female voice in the middle of demonic sounds.

In a similar way, John 3:16 storms in with 'God Is Light' in which he approaches the Light with determined steps. Harmonic and sublime waves of guitars blend with sombre drum beats and launch the attack in a war cry. Toward The Red Sea is at once warlike and a grim elegy, as if Light could be the reason for a military campaign. It's as if we were marching in this infernal din in the army of Pharaoh towards our fall and keep on doing it in the underworld.

Whom or what to believe in, in order not to perish? Who are the 'Good'? The cover waves to us with its' angel wings: one heavenly and one hellish."

[BA 72 rbd]

Purchase: FluiD / John 3:16 - The Pursuit of Salvation (ALRN024),  here

Dark Occult review of 'FluiD / John 3:16 - The Pursuit of Salvation' (ALRN024)

 

Turkish blog, Dark Occult recently posted a review of my split release with John 3:16,

'The Pursuit of Salvation' (ALRN024). 

Below is the review in full:

 

"First of all, I believe the music itself tells. I was planning to write a long review about this amazing split album. But then I said, no need to do this! İf you want to understand the writers like Kafka, Sartre, Tolstoy, George Orwell etc., and if you want to understand Bible, Qur'an etc. you must read. How can I tell you about paintings by Caravaggio, if you don't want to see them?

John 3:16 is a high quality electronic musician. He's works really impressive. 'God is Light' amazing track. FluiD...Hey wait a minute what I wrote above? " 

FluiD / John 3:16 - The Pursuit of Salvation is available via Alrealon Musique here

Kulturterrorismus review of 'FluiD / John 3:16 - The Pursuit of Salvation'

Splits, which are a concept, like 'The Pursuit of Salvation' from John 3:16 & FluiD, where the US-Swiss duo picks up the coming apocalypse, are rarely or not on the market. I'm noting only the peculiarity of this work, whose atmospheres, creators and consumers are experimental.

Originally started in England and now based in Switzerland, France and the U.S., Alrealon Musique developed within the scene a starting point for experimental sound art, where names such as Black Saturn, FluiD, John 3:16, PAS and Zilmrah dominate the back catalog. In itself, 'The Pursuit of Salvation' 12" (limited to 300 copies), appears perfectly integrated.

All wait 2012 (?) the impending apocalypse, including FluiD & John 3:16, referring to 'The Pursuit of Salvation' in general but probably with a current reference to approach the topic, which they do briefly (Maxi LP close to 15 minutes of playing time per side). Making it very compelling with their industrial, trip-hop and dub styles (FluiD); organic, ambient and noise (including drone) (John 3:16). It's remarkable the guys in this short-time frame are able to produce atmospheres that entrain. The structures on both sides totally put you under a spell, clap your hands in the end, a formidable soundtrack for a short film that suggests the end of the world, we probably escaped once more.

Conclusion: FluiD and John 3:16, take on 'The Pursuit of Salvation' under the banner of "brevity is the soul of wit", reveals impressively - my absolute recommendation!

PS: How many artists in 70 minutes never come to their point, FluiD & John 3:16 crush their listeners several times in 30 minutes!

http://kulturterrorismus.de/rezensionen/fluid-john-316-the-pursuit-of-salvation.html

Stream: (ALRN024) FluiD / John 3:16 - The Pursuit of Salvation

Terapija.net review of 'FluiD / John 3:16 - The Pursuit of Salvation'

Chris Gilmore, experimental electronic musician from Chicago, perhaps better known (to some) under the pseudonym, FluiD; which he has used since 1988 when he released his debut 12" single 'Warhol'. On his albums and his songs, he delivers a mix of psychedelia, noise, jazz, dub, ambient, industrial and other imaginable and unimaginable musical genres. After last year's well received album 'Envisioning Abstraction: The Duality of FluiD' and in collaboration with a colleague from the label, has decided to release a split 12'' on which he has three new songs on the A side.

Angels Pt. II continues Bowie's theme from the movie 'Cat People'. With the same or similar repetitive sequence, and each time you listen, I expect you will start to sing "and I've been putting out fire with gasoline". Plague is a dark, epic theme that will leave you with a tingling feeling, all over your body. Forewarning is an electronic experiment, which reminded me of a long forgotten Goldie.

John 3:16 is a Swiss experimental electronic musician. He has recently released a mini album. Two songs that did not fit on that mini-album stretch across one side of this EP. Repetitive elements are generated by electronic devices and sampled. During the entire twelve minutes of songs, he introduces us into a special world. So, 'God is Light' is slowly evolving into explosions that occur before the end of the song, whilst a choir singing, leads us 'Toward the Red Sea' making a song which is favored and exalted.

This record is definitely not for everyone but anyone who possesses it or will possess it, will like and appreciate it.

score album [1-10]: 8

Phil / / 25/02/2012
http://terapija.net/mjuzik.asp?ID=13331

FluiD / John 3:16 - The Pursuit of Salvation... now available for pre-order

  

 

FluiD / John 3:16 - The Pursuit of Salvation (ALRN024/ALRN-VL001),

is now available for pre-ordering.

All pre-orders come with a limited edition poster of the artwork,

signed by the artist, Trey Crim.

To pre-order, 'The Pursuit of Salvation', click here

FluiD / John 3:16 - Guardian (free download)

Download two new tracks from myself and John 3:16. Our new single, 'Guardian' is now available as a free download via Bandcamp.

Vox Empirea review of Duality

Italian webzine Vox Empirea recently posted a review of my CD, 'Duality'.

An excerpt from the review:

"... Music that, as suggested by the same FluiD, is perfectly suited to situations and themed environments like modern art galleries, avant-garde art exhibitions and alternative clubs, making 'Envisioning Abstraction: The Duality Of FluiD' and its complex and diverse structure, a sort of restyling of the traditional concept dub, formulating around it an ingenious databank of sounds psycholeptics and not easy to decryption relazioneranno that virtually the ideal listener, that he who possesses the ability to transcend the conventional testing new, futuristic microcosms trip from opiate. With this disc you will pass with surprising ease the fine line between the tangible and incorporeal..." 

 You can read the full review here

A very special thanks to Max @ Vox Empirea for writing such an insightful and detailed review...

collide.scope mix

I recently did a mix for collide.scope. collide.scope is both a zine/vinyl series and an independent label operating out of Melbourne, Australia.

This month, Chicago based musician FluiD offers a selection of his favorites for the exclusive mix series.

Beginning with a maelstrom of defunct electronic stabs and petering out into a string of choice beats & vocals, this selection resembles a mixtape more then a dj set however no less poignant or befitting. Christophe ventures through low-fi washes of percussion, abusively distorted dub joints & pages of existential lyricism to give you an insight into his ideal cross-genre blend.

Comprised of artists who've inspired or befriended him from his humble beginnings in 1988 until today, this is a valuable insight into the world of fluiD & a strong testament to his dedicated venture through the terrains of industrial hip-hop.

GLITCHED, BLOWN & DRIVEN
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Fragment King - scape [a]
FluiD - Black Jinn
Black Saturn - Minor Affliction
Dalek - Paragraphs Relentless
90 (Noventa) - Route Barree
FluiD - UnjUst
Heat From a Dead Star - Black Swans (FluiD remix)
Speak Onion - Salt in the Symbols
Picore - Fiasco (Larvae remix)
Techno Animal - Megaton
Opedope - Explo Ring
Fujako - Sulpher Gaot (feat. Sensational)
Dr. Pytor - Derka
VoPhoniq - The Maker

Final Artwork for, 'The Pursuit of Salvation' (ALRN024)

Front Cover

Back Cover

Label artwork for FluiD side

Label artwork for John 3:16 side

All artwork by Trey Crim (p) (c) 2012

Release info - http://www.alrealon.co.uk/alrn024.html

Test Pressings of FluiD / John 3:16 - The Pursuit of Salvation

 

Test pressings of ‘The Pursuit of Salvation’ (ALRN024);

my forthcoming split release with John 3:16 on Alrealon Musique.

Release info - http://www.alrealon.co.uk/alrn024.html

Release date March 19, 2012.

The Pursuit of Salvation

FluiD/John 3:16 - The Pursuit of Salvation (ALRN024),

coming: Mar. 19, 2012 on Alrealon Musique...

For more info - http://www.alrealon.co.uk/alrn024.html

Various Artists - Winter Dubstep Essentials

Released on LW Recordings (12.15.11),

'Winter Dubstep Essentials (15 Unmixed Dubstep Tracks)'.

The compilation, includes my track, 'Sublimation In the Zero Hour'.

Winter Dubstep Essentials, is availabe from these digital retailers:

itunes - http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/winter-dubstep-essentials/id482463103

Beatport - http://www.beatport.com/release/winter-dubstep-essentials/841477

Juno Download - http://www.junodownload.com/products/1877601-02.htm

DJ Tunes - http://www.djtunes.com/various-artists/winter-dubstep-essentials

Darkroom Magazine

Italian magazine Darkroom, recently published a review of 'Duality'.

You can view/read the original Italian version here -
http://www.darkroom-magazine.it/ita/107/Recensione.php?r=2223

Below is the English translation

"...Beginning in 2007 with the 'Noise In the Neurons' EP, five tracks released in digital format, this year has finally welcomed the expected second round. Throw in a cover that has clear messages with intelligence, for those who know / want to take it. Spread out over ten tracks is a good mix of trip-hop, funk, downtempo, electronic exotica that is broad and varied, embracing a variety of stylistic currents. In the new release, cards are shuffled with wit to create an even more successful and credible experiment of crossover between genres. Without doubt, the massive, sinuous basslines push the whole sound of great penetration into dub territories, where the pace of the movements, enveloping and sophisticated trip-hop/downtempo, including shades of IDM/industrial and scratches, while touching on guitar of course - sometimes deliberately awkward and disturbing, but necessary to capture the feelings and needed to complete the wall of sound - to make the roughness of the metal, fortunately leaving patterns and excesses. Samples, synths and even voice ( the experimental hip-hop artist Black Saturn, the microphone on 'Iron Communique') are the "spices" to flavor a sound that's sinuous and heady, able to seduce a great time with the Middle East stretches from what is 'Disrupting The Ghost' as well as bring down the dark with a "light-apocalyptic" thick 'Refuge'. Sterile exercises in style made to stir among different kinds, maybe with frayed results, but the welcome realization of a vision that is at the ideal crossroads of musical currents of thought, framed by a production worthy of so much creative effort. An artist to watch for all lovers of the more experimental sounds and border, hoping for a career in the future, not episodic..."

Many thanks to Roberto Alessandro Filippozzi (Darkroom Magazine's Director) for publishing the review!

Night World 2011

Taken @ 'Night World 2011 - Night of the Empire'

Foundation

Kansas City (West Bottoms), MO.

Amscray - The Scrams Get Scrambled

AMSCRAY: The Scrams Get Scrambled, available to download for free via NYC net label Immigrant Breast Nest (immigrantbreastnest.com/releases),

includes my remix of The Scrams track, 'Steve Sangre'.

More on The Scrams -  http://alibi.com/music/39491/The-Scrams-Are-Dead.html

Listen to a podcast dedicated to The Scrams -

http://thingsinlight.blogspot.com/2011/11/things-in-light-podcast-7-spookasem-mix.html