Raffaele Pezzella’s consistently astounding Unexplained Sounds Group is perhaps the best-curated label covering dark ambient and ritualistic music. They present former Sigillum S member Paolo L. Bandera’s latest release, and present notes originally posted from the Bandcamp release site here:
“Paolo L. Bandera (a.k.a. NG5361) has been propagating unconventional sounds and deviated cultural streams for decades with SIGILLUM S, together with Eraldo Bernocchi and other various acolytes.
On top of this, he has been generating noise textures in solo configuration as SSHE RETINA STIMULANTS, besides supporting and participating in many mutant projects by friends (THE SODALITY, IUGULA-THOR, ENSEMBLE SACRE GARCONS, SIDRA and more).
SSHE RETINA STIMULANTS devastates post-industrial sounds with a hyper – intellectual twist, in an apocalyptic context with morbidly visionary features: it’s a space where the most antagonist and abrasive currents get crazy, while pursuing a limitless synergy between underground acoustics and nightmarish visuals…under this moniker tens of works have been released through the years, in parallel with live performances in a lot of geographies.
Most recently, Paolo has started releasing some works under his own name, in order to differentiate more conceptually severe and abstract electronic productions from the SRS harsh volume.
Collaborations with other similarly alien projects are an important driver, including those with Aube, Mark Solotroff, Bad Sector, I Burn, The Fortieth Day, Gerstein, MSBR, Terence Hannum, Neil Jendon, The Land Of The Snow, Uncodified, Macelleria Mobile di Mezzanotte, LCB, Satanismo Calibro 9, Lorenzo Abbatoir, Avamposto Malato e many others.
Paolo has also written for various magazines (on music and other topics ), as well as having curated the two Italian editions of the Industrial Culture Handbook and having collaborated to RUMORI SACRI, a reference book on the Italian post-industrial music underground.”
