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Showing posts with label John 3:16. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John 3:16. Show all posts

Sunday, April 8, 2012

The Machinist

From the Machinist:

"New vinyl (also available in digital form), is a split-single. Already familiar to you the Chicago experimental electronic project FluiD and a new hearing for the group John 3:16. Consisting of grim, instrumental music, which has elements of dark ambient, psychedelic, dubstep, classical avant-garde, early industrial , hip-hop, etc. The assembly and stylistic concept of the disc material does not interfere with 'The Pursuit Of Salvation' being moderately tuneful and enigmatic. I was in this case attracted the most to the cold and desolate song from the telling title "Plague", which sounds of a dull body combined with viscous, creeping post-industrial hip-hop beats, as well as the number 'God Is Light' and precise rhythmic thing 'Forewarning', frightened human whispers, sighs strange, some kind of mystery and thriller-wave-like motions in the air.

In general it may be noted that the FluiD and his colleague make good music. Only this time, too small a portion thereof. Do not have time to really dive into the single material, as it ends."


[6 points]


http://www.machinistmusic.net/reviews/fluidep2012.html



 

Sunday, April 1, 2012

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

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

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

Saturday, March 17, 2012

"...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'!

Friday, March 16, 2012

"... 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

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

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,

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

Saturday, March 3, 2012

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

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

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

  
 
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



Saturday, February 18, 2012

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.

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 date March 19, 2012.

Saturday, January 21, 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

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Alrealon Musique Mix


dj lgcc - Alrealon Musique Mix by Alrealon Musique

Chicago (US) based DJ/producer/remixer/radio host, dj lgcc aka dreamlogicc recently completed a mix for Alrealon Musique which gathers selections from our catalogue. The mix aired on dj lgcc's WNUR radio show, Sat. Aug. 6th, 2011 and again on Sat. Aug. 13th, 2011.

Featured in the mix are tracks by DJ Phys, Black Saturn, FluiD, John 3:16, Black Saturn vs. subduxtion and PAS.

dj lgcc on Soundcloud - http://soundcloud.com/djlgcc
dj lgcc on the radio - http://djlgccmix.blogspot.com/2011/06/dj-lgcc-on-wnur-radio-chicago.html
dreamlogicc on Soundcloud -  http://soundcloud.com/dreamlogicc

Monday, March 21, 2011

Data Recovered From The Post-Human Cyborg

Manon from the blog Chroniques Electroniques who wrote one of the most poetic and insightful reviews of my CD, 'Envisioning Abstraction: the Duality of FluiD', was kind enough to send me a few questions.

Here are a couple of excerpts from the interview:

"Duality delves into a dark blend of industrial music, dub, rock, hip-hop. What inspired you when you create it?"

"Duality is really a reflection of me and the music/musicians and artists that inspired me and made an impact on me. I really wanted to make a musical statement about who I am. Music for me is about communicating what I'm thinking and what I'm feeling. I wish I was better at verbally communicating with people. There is a mystery and a weight to who I am. I think I've begun to understand that and realize it's part of who I am. It's something I can tap into and draw from. It was very important not to compromise and try to fit it into any category or genre. Duality blends different types of music because I don't listen to just one type of music. I have been profoundly affected by the music of many musicians across a very wide sound spectrum. The world is full of amazing musicians and music and I've spent most of my life seeking them out. Inspiration is also a challenge. I was not just inspired but challenged by what I had heard, seen and read. I needed to make something that honored those who had inspired me. In some way it's also a thank you to those who pushed and pulled music and art into new forms and new directions."

"You studied classical and jazz music, and learned to play a wide variety of instruments since you’ve been a child. How this education led you to a musical universe where the first thing you claim is abstraction?"

"Learning to play a wide variety of instruments was part of my musical education and sometimes it was out of necessity. I started on clarinet in the school band and then progressed to piano, saxophone, flute, oboe, drums and bass guitar. I studied classical music and Jazz to gain a greater understanding to those two musics. Abstraction is about reducing things to their essence. From Jazz and classical musics I learned new things, new ideas and new approaches and took those things and Incorporated them into my musical language. Abstraction isn't necessarily about nothingness. For me it's about gaining an understanding of something and then breaking it down into it's core."

The full interview in English here - http://www.chroniqueselectroniques.net/pages/Interview_with_FluiD--4812080.html

The full interview in French here - http://www.chroniqueselectroniques.net/article-interview-de-fluid-69437267.html

Read her review here - http://simultaniety.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-review-of-duality-by-chroniques.html

Monday, January 10, 2011

Welcome to 2011!

Alrealon Musique starts the new year with two significant events!

First, the Alrealon Musique store is now online -
http://www.alrealon.co.uk/catalog/index.php

Now you can purchase Alrealon releases, directly from Alrealon.

Second, we start the new year with a new release, 'PAS - Reconstruction'.


The latest Alrealon release sees Brooklyn, NY collective PAS , deconstruct and reconstruct, audio fragments, vocals and beats from Alrealon artists, Black Saturn, FluiD, LAX, John 3:16 and Zilmrah into new compositions.

Listen to a track from, 'PAS - Reconstruction', here

PAS - Here Ing Voices by Alrealon Musique

Monday, November 1, 2010

Alrealon Update 11.01.10

First up, is the latest podcast in our long running podcast series. This months podcast comes from Sascha Muller and is titled 'Mix it Up Mix'.

About Sascha:

"Sascha Müller aka Pharmacom start his career with djìng and producing in 1990. He was inspired by Projects like Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream and stuff like Sven Väth played in his dj sets. The musical style reaches from ambient chill out, house and techno music in his own special way. His way of producing is the use old analog equipment in the same way as the newest Software in digital producing. The greatest thing for him is to create new soundcollages and wicked samples for his tracks. As a Dj he played in several european locations and events like love parade and thunderdome. At the moment he is also playing as a vj and is involved in multimedia productions with some other global video and grafic artists."


Look for Sascha's upcoming 'Move My Body' EP on Alrealon Music (release date 12.13.10).


We've also uploaded to our Soundcloud page with a track from the ARU meets FluiD release, 'The Sickness'

ARU meets FluiD - The Sickness by Alrealon Music


Last month Alrealon artists Zilmrah /O\ and Robert Pepper of PAS performed together at Silent Barn in NYC. You can view video of their performance here.




Other Releases from Alrealon Artists:

FluiD, PAS and Zilmrah /O\ feature on a newly released compilation from Babylon Projects, 'By the Rivers of Bablyon: Always/Forever',  

DJ Phys, mNIPK and Sascha Muller all have releases available from French techno label, Milligrid Records.

FluiD and Ghoul have a new split EP, 'Ghoul + FluiD' on Tundra Dubs, available here.

Ghoul has also done a new 30 min. mix, 'Vnholy Ground Vol. I' for Tundra Dubs. You can listen to the mix here. 


Current Alrealon Music Releases:

ARU meets FluiD - Fearless Empire Killers
LAX - Deep Water b/w cREEPYsHEEP (incl. remixes from Ghoul and FluiD)
mNIPK - Paul Auster's Tears
 
Upcoming Alrealon Music Releases:
 
FluiD - Duality 
PAS - Reconstruction (featuring contributions from Black Saturn, FluiD, John 3:16, LAX and Zilmrah /O\)
Sascha Muller - Move My Body
 

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Alrealon Music Update 10.13.10

Several things are happening at Alrealon Music:

We're having a remix contest based around our joint release with DSMS, 'ARU meets FluiD - Fearless Empire Killlers'. The top 7 remixes will be released as part of 'ARU meets FluiD - Fearless Empire Killers (version)', in both digital and CDR formats.

For more info on the contest - http://alrealon.ownforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=71

Alrealon artists PAS and FluiD appeared together at Spark Festival in Minneapolis, MN. I detailed our weekend at Spark Festival in a previous post.


PAS/FluiD live at Spark Festival 2010 from PAS (Post Abortion Stress) on Vimeo.


In other PAS releated news, they will have a new release on Alrealon in early 2011. The release is titled PAS - Re-construction'. We're really excited about this release at is a collaborative effort between PAS and all Alrealon artists. More on the release, here - http://alrealon.ownforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=63
PAS currently have a new CD, 'Pure Energy Output Sessions'. It is available directly from PAS, via CD Baby -
http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/PASPostAbortionStress

Brooklyn, NY musician/artist Zilmrah /O\ who did a podcast for us back in April of this year, will have a new full-length release available early next year. In the meantime you can hear a new track from Zilmrah /O\ as well as John 3:16 on the DSMS compilation, 'Psidronic'.

I also want to remind everyone of the Alrealon Music Forum and if you join our forum, you'll receive a download link for the free digital single, 'Machina - re/tooled'.

Current Alrealon Music Releases:

ARU meets FluiD - Fearless Empire Killers
LAX - Deep Water b/w cREEPYsHEEP (incl. remixes from Ghoul and FluiD)
mNIPK - Paul Auster's Tears