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