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Infidel?/Castro!

About Me

GK's NEW ALBUM -- TOO MANY DAYS out now!

To order, message me directly or Galvatraz Records in the US, Peacific in Europe. I'm open to barter and trade.
STATUS:
Infidel?/Castro!, as Colin Marston and George Korein, has not been active for some time and is not going to be active for some time.
Colin Marston is now in Behold... the Arctopus, Dysrhythmia and Byla (who are working on an album with Jarboe which will rule). George Korein has just released his second solo album, and has formed The Tentones with Nick Millevoi, debuted the live version of Lobe Stub, released Grim Shady tracks on myspace and performed sundry improv shenanigans in Philadelphia.
HISTORY:
Infidel?/Castro! began as two kids experimenting and improvising music. With the advent of borrowed recording equipment, Colin Marston and George Korein began a phase of building tracks in an open, exploratory manner, layering electronic, electric and acoustic sounds, looping rhythms and atmospheric miscellany. This early material is collected on the cd-r "Infidelicacy".
"Case Studies in Bioentropy" would prove a completely different, unforeseen and violent new direction, which has guided the band through the present. Pre-ordained philosophical concepts guide the painstakingly collaged electro-acoustic ambient metal destruction of the Bioentropy albums. "Case Studies...", the first, diffuses its language component through the voices of cinema over a melange of dissonance, distortion and sludge being attacked from all sides by both performed and programmed percussion, with ambient interludes providing tenuous meditative spaces. "The 49-Day Period Between Lives", an 11 1/2 minute track released on the split 12" with the Friendly Bears, follows the morbid finale of "Case Studies..." by amalgamating jumbled fragments of that album with those of "Bioentropic Damage Fractal", which begins with "The Onset of Life", a jarring (re)birth. On "Bioentropic..." they push this germ until it bursts, with extremes of density and sparsity, speed and sluggishness, length and brevity, beauty and ugliness.
An example of lateral movement can be found on the detour "Suicide Ballads", which leads off the Dead Mind Records 4-way split CD "Contre Tous". "MSIGWTTH" and "Exposing One's Belly to Predators" feature such uncharacteristic characteristics as vocals and lyrics, telling macabre tales of bizarre methods of self-dispatch spun from twisted fixation with real-life headlines.
FREE MP3:
Charles Cohen and George Korein: "Say Hello to the Krell" at
hajotarecords.com/releases.php

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/9/2005
Band Website: infidelcastro.com
Band Members: George Korein and Colin Marston.Colin is also in Dysrhythmia, Behold the Arctopus and Byla.

George has two solo albums.
Influences: Sludge: Neurosis, Khanate, Thrones, Isis

Industrial: Einsturzende Neubauten, Foetus

Ambience: My Bloody Valentine, Love Lies Crushing, Ulver

Prog/math: Ruins, Zs, Thoughtstreams

Composers: Ligeti, Penderecki, Branca, Xenakis, Berio

Chamber prog: Art Zoyd, Univers Zero
Sounds Like: Extremely dark and conceptual epics integrating metal, ambient, "IDM" and electroacoustic collage.
Record Label: Crucial Blast
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Now Available: The Out-of-Print Infidel?/Castro!

Every Infidel?/Castro! release, except Bioentropic Damage Fractal, is out of print at this point. So, I'm making the stuff available as follows. Paypal me $9 and I'll send you 192kbps mp3s of: Case St...
Posted by Infidel?/Castro! on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:59:00 PST

Helena Espvall -- Nimis and Arx OUT NOW

I (George) am overjoyed to announce that Helena Espvall's solo debut CD, which I producerized/glitchified/infidelifoniced is HERE on Fire Museum and Pax records! She's the cellist of Espers and h...
Posted by Infidel?/Castro! on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:03:00 PST

Memoirs of a TRILOBITE

George's solo album, MEMOIRS OF A TRILOBITE, is here. 79 minutes, 28 tracks, 9 orders of Trilobite. Featuring guestwork from Colin, Richard Fortey from the palaeontology department, Forbes from Kayo D...
Posted by Infidel?/Castro! on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

IT'S HERE: Embrace the Bioentropic Damage Fractal

The NEW 2xCD IS HERE!!! yaaaaaaaaaay Embrace the Bioentropic Damage Fractal Irradiate your life Dissolve into plasma! Order now by e-mailing us! Support freaky music, please!
Posted by Infidel?/Castro! on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The Album Arrives in Two Weeks -- Order Now

The new double disc "Bioentropic Damage Fractal", on Crucial Blast Records, will be available from us at the end of the month, and in stores April 26. You can order it by e-mailing us. Our e-mail addr...
Posted by Infidel?/Castro! on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST