TZII "Individualism EP" (Silken Tofu 14)

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TZII Individualism EP (Silken Tofu 14) 3" black CDR in a mini dvd case

http://www.silkentofu.org/
http://www.myspace.com/silkentofu  

" Individualism is the moral stance or social outlook that stresses independence and self-reliance. Individualists promote the exercise of one's goals and desires, while opposing most external interference upon one's choices, whether by society, the state, or any other group or institution. Individualism is also opposed to any tradition, religion, or other form of external moral standard being used to limit an individual's choice of actions. "

Two tracks by Tzii with a distinct hint of old school industrial, acoustic sources as self made metal instrument, microphone interferences, flutes.....all recorded in one take, no editing.

Rough individual sounds for a selfish world.





audio extracts: http://www.silkentofu.org/

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de: http://www.heathenharvest.com/article.php?story=20090715063536107&filter=t&page=29

Silken Tofu has released another three inch gem. This time it is from Tzii, who has been in the scene for over a decade now, collaborating with a very decent and lengthy line of electronic and experimental artists from various parts of the world. Eric has also been a prolific performer not bound to Europe alone, with countries toured including Japan, Australia, Canada, and even Africa all having the pleasure of experiencing his own old school Industrial Noise style, as well as any other styles wrought by his many collaborators. As if that weren't enough, he has also produced live video performances for other projects including Mounmansk 150, HIV+, as well as for one of his own side projects (of which there are several), Solar Skeletons. All this and much more has made Eric a very well-rounded artist, and this has allowed him to create a very simple but emotionally strong pair of nameless improvisations that quickly worked their way into my being and earned my immediate respect. "Individualism" is a wordless proclamation of its theme, a work that with only expertly placed sounds, some even forged with self-made instruments, declares a complete rejection of forces outside of the self, such as government, tradition, religion, society, and anyone or anything else that attempts to impose itself on the choices we make and who we are.

The first thing you hear from the initial 16 minute-plus track is a sample of a very elderly sounding voice, almost speedy in its articulation, sampled from Guy Maddin's first film from back in 1988, "Tales from the Gimli Hospital". This is joined in shortly by a very stark but soothing ambiance, sounding like a nocturnal exploration of some abandoned factory, only there are ghosts still working in the place, the sounds coming at you from some other dimension. There is a muffled percussive element that varies in pitch from sequence to sequence, paired with the humming, low-pitched feedback, giving off this type of phantasmal vibe effortlessly, only to be amplified by a random, harshly distorted series of what I can only describe as exacerbated breaths of an electric nature, and to top it all off, unpredictable spurts of microphone interference processed through a reverb module. But then again, the whole thing sounds like it's coming out of an Echoeplex...

The second piece is something more terrifying, It is only a little less than four minutes in length, but it sounds like the end of some horror film set in some creepy corner of Siberia where some weak, injured, and desperate person is trying in vain to outrun a band of soulless killers coming in from every which way, gradually closing in... A sampled choir is blended with other choppy samples of whispering and screaming voices, stained with delay, and distortion that heavily saturates some samples so much that it sounds like a whole other layer of intrusive Power Noise in itself. Both tracks were recorded on March 19, 2008 at Eric's home studio Vautour, one take, no editing.  

I found it really interesting that the tracks have no names upon realizing something important about the subject of the release. There is no "untitled" marking any part of the disc, artwork, or packaging. Only the name of the EP itself is a direct and blatant relater of what the work symbolizes, but because if this, it also allows the listener an open interpretation. What does individualism mean to you? It is almost paradoxical in its plurality: Being an individual being is different for everyone, much like spirituality is the deepest and most personal of all concepts, no one can give you an exact copy of what this means among a large collection of people. But everyone can agree that the one thing that applies to everyone is that individualism is only achieved YOUR WAY... There are 100 copies of this out there. Do you know where YOUR copy is?

[pilami]

excellent ce format !