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VIERNULV 003LP
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Viernulvier Records presents its new LP release Quadric Surfaces by iconic electronic producer Hieroglyphic Being aka Jamal R Moss. It collects the soundtracks Moss wrote for Parellel Spheres and Figures in Mynd, two parts of an abstract animation film by visual artist Gabriela González Rondon. The film premiered in October 2023 during Videodroom/Film Festival Ghent. In her surreal and trippy gem of analog filmmaking Gonzales draws up whole universes of movement and color that seem to share a spiritual space with likeminded sci-fi writers such as Ursula K Le Guin or filmmaker John Whitney. The soundtrack for this dreamy experiment was provided by kindred soul and psychonaut Hieroglyphic Being. Through off-world frequencies and raw primal sounds, Quadric Surfaces presents a collection of exploratory left-field dance music. For over 20 years Moss has been an one-off musical explorer that takes inspiration from house, industrial, Kraut, avant-jazz and noise to make his spectacularly unique take on radical and psychedelic (dance) music. Artwork by Gabriela González.
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OTCR 007LP
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Synth Expressionism/Rhythmic Cubism LP from Chicago's Jamal Moss, aka Hieroglyphic Being, is a collection of idioms that have no past and no future, his jarring use of polyrhythmic polyphony imbues a sense of timelessness. The prolific catalog of Moss's covers many musical dialects from his hometown and beyond. Never standing in one artistic sphere for too long, this adventure for On The Corner Records sees Hieroglyphic Being exploring a multitude of expressions of the American avant-garde. "Rhythmic Cubism: In this 'Dissertation Of Disorientation' [Neal Andrew Emil Gustafson] temporal considerations are put aside as polyrhythmic propulsion is the current flowing through the work. As prelude the fastidious 'Rhythmic Cubism', Moss enacts a flurry of white noise and musical coda as it phases in-and-out of synchronicity. The disjointed dance of an alternative Black Music, 'The Spiritual or Electromagnetic Worlds' takes the meter down a fraction to exonerate a granular groove of visceral refracted complexity. Sonorus static sits alongside spastic shards of synthesis to reveal a melancholic medley before its conclusion. 'Apocrypha' collages distinct rhythmic source materials in an entrancing abstraction of 'Hypersonic Hemiola'. An assertion of Art Blakey proportions. Perpetually pushed forward through the building of distorted percussion, Moss precludes into syncopated synapsis before and end of reductive symmetry. Evolving into a stuttered off-kilter groove, "The Redemption Project" flows as a dissipating organ medley dissolves into a deluge of layered sonic textures, creating an indiscernible metric center before fading to a distant vanishing point. Departing with a common-time 'Timbuk2' takes off like a classic Chicago acid track, then makes a left turn towards the center as it drives the rhythmic motion into a dystopian dreamland, as the sax line surges forcing the track to break free from its charted course. The Fragmented fantasy of the Synth Expressionism/Rhythmic Cubism LP is a conclusive work that has no end, a conundrum of conceptual calculated improvisation. Drifting through time, this fragmented abstraction of Afro-cubism leaves room for posterity, as each listen summons a new perspective on the suite. Something ever so common in the work of Jamal Moss. Charting new sonic directions, the very nature of its precedent makes it a truly Hieroglyphic affair." --Neal Andrew Emil Gustafson
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RDM 121CD
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Hieroglyphic Being, aka Jamal Moss, visited the Moog Sound Lab towards the end of 2016. Testing the lab through his prismatic rhythmic cubism meets synth expressionism methodology. 21st century Afro-futurism to the max. Both parties expressed their satisfaction with the encounter. Eldon Tyrell on the recordings: "I believe Bob Moog was (in the late 20th century) creating his modular system 55 synthesiser for artists yet to come... artists like Jamal Moss."
Moog Recordings Library is new record label established specifically to release limited editions of recorded works, sessions, concerts, and audio experiments utilizing The Moog Sound Lab UK (Est. 2015). Moog Recordings Library announces its launch with three separate releases, from The Grid (RDM 102CD/LP), Mika Vainio (RDM 109CD/LP), and Hieroglyphic Being. Each of the three releases is an album length session recorded with The Moog Sound Lab UK, an open loan studio from Moog Music Inc (USA) designed to encourage the making of new electronic works and to welcome UK based artistic and public access with the aim to broaden experimentation and practical hands-on knowledge with high spec analogue and digital electronic instruments. The portable studio was specially designed by Moog Inc and is centered around one of their rarest instruments, the 2014 limited edition reissue of their legendary 1960s System 55 analog synthesizer system -- the Stradivarius of modular synths. Originally established in 2015 to mark the 10th anniversary of Dr Robert Moog's passing, the Moog Sound Lab UK was first seen publicly at the Barbican Arts Centre's three-day "Moog Concordance Vol 1" event -- a celebration of Bob Moog's contribution to contemporary music.
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RDM 121LP
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LP version. Hieroglyphic Being, aka Jamal Moss, visited the Moog Sound Lab towards the end of 2016. Testing the lab through his prismatic rhythmic cubism meets synth expressionism methodology. 21st century Afro-futurism to the max. Both parties expressed their satisfaction with the encounter. Eldon Tyrell on the recordings: "I believe Bob Moog was (in the late 20th century) creating his modular system 55 synthesiser for artists yet to come... artists like Jamal Moss."
Moog Recordings Library is new record label established specifically to release limited editions of recorded works, sessions, concerts, and audio experiments utilizing The Moog Sound Lab UK (Est. 2015). Moog Recordings Library announces its launch with three separate releases, from The Grid (RDM 102CD/LP), Mika Vainio (RDM 109CD/LP), and Hieroglyphic Being. Each of the three releases is an album length session recorded with The Moog Sound Lab UK, an open loan studio from Moog Music Inc (USA) designed to encourage the making of new electronic works and to welcome UK based artistic and public access with the aim to broaden experimentation and practical hands-on knowledge with high spec analogue and digital electronic instruments. The portable studio was specially designed by Moog Inc and is centered around one of their rarest instruments, the 2014 limited edition reissue of their legendary 1960s System 55 analog synthesizer system -- the Stradivarius of modular synths. Originally established in 2015 to mark the 10th anniversary of Dr Robert Moog's passing, the Moog Sound Lab UK was first seen publicly at the Barbican Arts Centre's three-day "Moog Concordance Vol 1" event -- a celebration of Bob Moog's contribution to contemporary music.
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TCLR 020EP
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Drawing on the energy and spirituality of Sun Ra, Jamal Moss, aka Hieroglyphic Being, conducts his machines to create a raw, pulsating and meditative work that focused as much on the dancefloor as on the synapses. He returns to Technicolour to pay homage Chicago's nascent and fertile electronic music scene in the '90s. Fiercely visceral and channeling the same "rhythmic cubist" approach, "This Is 4 The Rave Bangers" and "HOME 95" are offered as "reinterpretations or a revisionist's retrospective of the early '90s electronic music based in Chicago during the rise of rave culture from a sonic anthropological narrative".
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ALT 009EP
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Jamal Moss aka Heiroglyphic Being presents The Electronic Belt, his second release for Alter, and perhaps his most dancefloor-oriented release. The EP is made up of three choice cuts from 2012's Man with the Red Drum transmission with each track bearing the signifiers of Jamal's rough and distinctive production; melodies twisting themselves into psychedelic wormholes, raw kicks and toms that hit hard and tight. Yellow vinyl edition in five different colored disco bags, mastered for vinyl by Stephen Bishop.
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