Witchcraft, by Capricorni Pneumatici

Witchcraft

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Caesar The album's title track is inspired by the Compendium Maleficarum, a text from 1608. This historical connection is not merely a literary reference; it is the thread that links modern machine and synthesiser sounds with ancient folk beliefs. Using the legendary DX7, the Pneumatic Capricorns combine electronic sounds with ambient recordings, creating a symphony that is both abstract and earthy. www.versacrum.com/vs/2024/10/capricorni-pneumatici-witchcraft.html Favorite track: Witchcraft.

Dave Aftandilian The title track hooked me on this album. It starts off bright and filled with wonder, then slowly, subtly, the sound twists and warps, evoking a steady descent into madness and/or ecstatic understanding. Each of the remaining tracks lovingly evokes a forbidden ritual that opens the mind to alternate realities with whirling, sweaty dances; thick, dripping blood; and undercurrents of sexual desire for the Other without and within.

hr_hack_n_slack This album awesome, because it gives that other worldly vibe in spades. This album (and it's only the preorder!) and its predecessors avoid the spacey cliches that inhabit a good deal of dark ambient music.

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M.B. (Maurizio Bianchi) - S.F.A.G. 31.11.1981
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M.B. - S.F.A.G. 31.11.1981
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Die Sonne Satans - Omega
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Nerthus - Silent Monuments
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The Necronomicon Pages
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Deep Red. A Tribute to the Cinema of Dario Argento
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1.	Witchcraft 18:55	buy track
2.	A-Ro-Go-Go-Ru 11:16	buy track
3.	A-thele-ber-Seth 09:55	buy track
4.	Schmumm 10:33	buy track

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The track Witchcraft was originally released by SSS Production on a C25 cassette in 1989. Eighth Tower Records brings to light, re-releasing on CD, this esoteric industrial gem by Capricorni Pneumatici, along with three entirely unreleased tracks.
Witchcraft was largely inspired by reading the Compendium Maleficarum by Francesco Maria Guazzo from 1608, in a copy of the famous 1929 Rodker edition edited by Montague Summers. The track was created using the DX7 synth, tapes to manipulate field recordings sounds, and a soprano saxophone recorded in an underground environment "The Cave," where the recordings of CP1 and Al-Azif were made (we extensively recounted the cave in the notes to the reissue of Al-Azif). Larger parts of the sax sessions recorded in the "cave" were later published in "Vala, or the Four Zoas" (Second Zoa) a few months later.

A-Thele-ber-Seth and A-Ro-Go-Go-Ru were recorded around the end of 1987 and attached to the zine Zos-Kia, Vol.2. The first piece was inspired by Kabbalistic rituals (as per texts published in that issue of Zos-Kia), while the second refers to Voodoo cults. These two tracks were printed on a cassette exclusively attached to the zine Zos-Kia, sold in a run of 100 copies in an esoteric bookstore in the Porta Venezia area of Milan.

Schmumm, on the other hand, was recorded a little more than a year after Witchcraft. The track makes extensive use of field recordings made in London and other locations. The recordings were then edited and processed in a studio in Winchester. The whole thing was then re-edited, reprocessed, and combined with recordings secretly made in the church of a medieval village in Calabria (Southern Italy), while local women chanted "spells”.

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“Witchcraft”: original tape release by 666 Production, sssk08 ©℗ 1988 CP

“A-Ro-Go-Go-Ru “ and “A-Thele-ber-Seth” originally published in “Zos-Kia” Vol. 2, 666 Prod. sssbk02, ©℗ 1987 CP

“Schmumm” previously unreleased, recorded in London, Winchester, Torretta © 1989 CP

This edition © CP 2024, all rights reserved
Remastered by Raffaele Pezzella a.k.a. Sonologyst
Cover Design by CP.
Published by Eighth Tower Records, cat. number ETR053.

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