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JG Thirlwell‘s new musical project is Xordox. This is the first album entitled Neospection, released on the highly respected and influential Editions Mego label. Neospection is predominantly a synthesizer record, recorded at Self Immolation studios in Brooklyn, although it also includes overdubs of Buchla and Serge synthesizer created during Thirlwell’s residency at the legendary EMS Studio in Stockholm. The album features Noveller’s Sarah Lipstate on guitar on three of the eight tracks.
JG Thirlwell has created the original musical score for Tony Oursler’s feature-length film/installation Imponderable. The CD is packaged in deluxe digipack with silver foil lettering with a 48 page color booklet containing stills from the film and images from Oursler’s archive of supernatural and occult phenomena.
SOAK is a companion/satellite album to the previous Foetus release HIDE. Some of the tracks on SOAK were begun at the same time as the HIDE sessions or recorded since, but provide a conceptual progression and/or expansion on some of the themes and ideas of HIDE.
For legal reasons, the track “Danger Global Warming: JG Thirlwell remix” is only available on CD and not on the digital version of the album.
Please respect the wishes of this artist by not uploading material to blogs, torrents, P2P services and social sharing sites.
JG Thirlwell's original score for the motion picture "The Blue Eyes". The film was written, directed and produced by Eva Aridjis.
Score composed, produced, recorded and performed by JG Thirlwell, with Karen Waltuch on violin and viola, Isabel Castevi on cello, James Ilgenfritz on contrabass, Nathan Koci on french horn and Marcus Rojas on tuba and bass trombone.
Please respect the wishes of this artist by not uploading material to blogs, torrents, P2P services and social sharing sites.
Stereo CD and 5.1 DVD
Dinoflagellate Blooms features eleven compositions composed, produced and performed by JG Thirlwell. The package includes a CD of the album in stereo, and a DVD with the album in glorious, immersive 5.1 surround sound.
The album careens between soft plucked interludes to full blown symphonic frenzy, from musiq concrete nightmares to cinematic mindfields, with a meticulous marriage of samples and live instruments, distressed sounds and mysterious unknown quantities.
Initial quantities come with a free 4x5 Manorexia sticker signed by JG Thirlwell.
HIDE features ten new compositions by JG Thirlwell, who describes it as a "neo-symphonic avant-psychedelic concept album informed by the culture of fear". Kicking off with a nine minute operatic opus featuring the guest vocal talents of opera singer Abby Fischer, HIDE is an immersive album infused with strands of progressive and contemporary classical, as well as Thirlwell's twisting cinematic journeys, bombast and sombre interludes.
Thirlwell produced the album and performs most of the music. Also guesting on the album are long time collaborator Steven Bernstein on trumpet and Leyna Marika Papach from Thirlwell's Manorexia ensemble on violin. In addition
Elliot Hoffman of Carbomb plays drums on a track, and there are appearances from Ed Pastorini, Jeff Davidson and Christian Gibbs (Lucinda Blackbear).
'Hide' unquestionably marks yet another fantastic addition to the already astounding Foetus catalogue, and is one of those albums that demands repeat listening, and lots of it
Christopher Nosnibor -whisperinandhollerin.com
Ambitious, overwhelming, rough, rugged.... saddle up for a blaze into a flawed but ambitious psychedelic opera.
Over the course of his career, Jim Thirlwell has hugely expanded his repertoire with his Manorexia and Steroid Maximus projects as well as soundtrack work......
...However, no matter what sideline work he does, when he comes back to Foetus it is a guarantee that the music will be brilliant. His role as a composer has fed progressively more into Foetus (fitting considering the seeds of Manorexia were sown and germinated in earlier Foetus albums) and Hide has a much wider scope than previously encountered.
John Kealy -Brainwashed.com
The new album from Manorexia. The album is 50 minutes long and contains eight tracks, radically rearranged from the first two Manorexia albums and performed by the chamber ensemble version of Manorexia in the arrangements that JG has been performing and perfecting over the last couple of years. From the sleevenotes:
"Manorexia was conceived in the year 2000. I began working on the first album on Thanksgiving morning and released it in 2001. It was started as an electronic and sample based project where I wanted to explore a spatial quality not existent in my other work. I released two albums as Manorexia, "Volvox Turbo" and "The Radiolarian Ooze", both on my label Ectopic Ents and exclusively thru my website foetus.org.
I had wanted to rearrange some Manorexia compositions for string quartet with percussion for some time, and proposed this to David Sefton at UCLA back in 2002, but in course of those discussions we switched to my Steroid Maximus big band.
Eventually I made the first live performance as Manorexia in Russia in 2006. Kenny Savelson at Bang On A Can proposed my going there for a performance at the same time as the Real Quiet trio of David Cossin, Felix Fan and Andy Russo. Real Quiet agreed to be the core of Manorexia for the Russian dates and we augmented the lineup with two violinists and a violist in Moscow. I rearranged some of the Manorexia material to be played by string quartet, piano, percussion and laptop with Ted Hearne.
I have since formed separate Manorexia ensembles in NYC and London. Manorexia has played at All Tomorrow's Parties, The Whitney Museum, Bang On A Can marathon, Brainwaves Festival and several times at The Stone NYC. This album is the product of the first wave of chamber arrangements of Manorexia material."
-JG Thirlwell
Exclusive website-only limited release. Unavailable elsewhere!
LIMB is an archival release of experimental and minimalist compositions recorded from 1980-1983, from the early days of Foetus and pre-Foetus. Though the material is largely unreleased, some of the pieces have been previously released on the compilation albums by Coil and United Dairies. Some were excavated and some of it was reconstructed or re-edited from compositions on cassette. One piece is constructed from an organ part written in 1982, which JG took the liberty of finishing in 2008. These pieces were made before the introduction of MIDI and sampling technology. It shows the lineage and genesis of some of the methods that JG is working in today.
Available on vinyl here
The original score from the hit Adult Swim cartoon The Venture Bros, composed and performed by JG Thirlwell.
"JG Thirlwell's brilliant music for The Venture Brothers injects new energy to the world of cartoon soundtracks. An extension of his work with Steroid Maximus, the music is filled with honesty, imagination and excitement. Like all great soundtrack composers, JGT is a compendium of music history and he jumps easily from one genre to another with flamboyant style - mambo, drum 'n' bass, electronica, 20th century classical, lounge, calliope carousel, big band jazz - nothing seems to escape his unerring ear, but no matter where he goes, he always remains uniquely himself. ...This is great music." John Zorn, NYC 2008 (from the sleeve notes)
To regard VEIN as purely a remix album is to underestimate its intentions and ambitions. VEIN has material from 2005's LOVE fractured and re-imagined by some of today's most notable artists. It is an immersive, powerful and sometimes harrowing cinematic journey through sound and emotion. Includes contributions by Fennesz, Mike Patton, Jay Wasco, TujikoNuriko, Jason Forrest, TRZTN (of Services), Tweaker, Matmos, TomRecchion and J.G. Thirlwell.
Exclusive website-only limited release. Unavailable elsewhere!
Ectopic Ents has released DAMP, a Foetus "satellite appendix" album, exclusively thru the Shop on this website. The music consists mainly of unreleased material as well as some rare material. The DAMP cover is a ten panel foldout with lyrics, featuring photos and design by JG Thirlwell.
Exclusive website-only limited release. Unavailable elsewhere!
Sometimes darkly disorienting, sometimes rhythmic and occasionally almost treading on Steroid Maximus territory, the first thirty-five minutes (eight pieces), gradually build to a frenzy, through soundscapes, alien ethnicities, passing the eavesdropped sounds of sinister goings-on, on into haunting lullabies culminating in a epic eleven-minute-plus chase-opera...
The second part of the album, the final four pieces, are beautiful and twisted and enveloping, sometimes best listened to in a semi-somnambulistic state; by the end, the listener may find themselves in paroxysms of ecstasy at the beauty and sadness and strangeness and other-wordly quality of this cycle.
Exclusive website-only limited release. Unavailable elsewhere!
Tapping into his instincts, Thirlwell completed the instrumental Volvox Turbo, album within six weeks (a record time for him) and released this exclusively through the online shop. An intensely psychological symphony, the album orbits several multiethnic soundscapes - from Moroccan to Martian - and manipulates those studio mistakes others try to avoid into 14 strangely compelling merging movements. It's been called "a noir narrative filled with anticipation, foreboding and icy climaxes." It resonates more with deep listening. It's a killer acid trip without the LSD.
JG Thirlwell‘s new musical project is Xordox. This is the first album entitled Neospection, released on the highly respected and influential Editions Mego label. Neospection is predominantly a synthesizer record, recorded at Self Immolation studios in Brooklyn, although it also includes overdubs of Buchla and Serge synthesizer created during Thirlwell’s residency at the legendary EMS Studio in Stockholm. The album features Noveller’s Sarah Lipstate on guitar on three of the eight tracks.
SOAK is a companion/satellite album to the previous Foetus release HIDE. Some of the tracks on SOAK were begun at the same time as the HIDE sessions or recorded since, but provide a conceptual progression and/or expansion on some of the themes and ideas of HIDE.
For legal reasons, the track “Danger Global Warming: JG Thirlwell remix” is only available on CD and not on the digital version of the album.
Please respect the wishes of this artist by not uploading material to blogs, torrents, P2P services and social sharing sites.
File size:111.4mb
JG Thirlwell's original score for the motion picture "The Blue Eyes". The film was written, directed and produced by Eva Aridjis.
Score composed, produced, recorded and performed by JG Thirlwell, with Karen Waltuch on violin and viola, Isabel Castevi on cello, James Ilgenfritz on contrabass, Nathan Koci on french horn and Marcus Rojas on tuba and bass trombone.
Please respect the wishes of this artist by not uploading material to blogs, torrents, P2P services and social sharing sites.
File size: 96.6mb
Dinoflagellate Blooms features eleven compositions composed, produced and performed by JG Thirlwell.
The album careens between soft plucked interludes to full blown symphonic frenzy, from musiq concrete nightmares to cinematic mindfields, with a meticulous marriage of samples and live instruments, distressed sounds and mysterious unknown quantities.
File size: 135mb
HIDE features ten new compositions by JG Thirlwell, who describes it as a
"neo-symphonic avant-psychedelic concept album informed by the culture of fear". Kicking off with a nine minute operatic opus featuring the guest vocal talents of opera singer Abby Fischer, HIDE is an immersive album infused with strands of progressive and contemporary classical, as well as Thirlwell's twisting cinematic journeys, bombast and sombre interludes.
Thirlwell produced the album and performs most of the music. Also guesting on the album are long time collaborator Steven Bernstein on trumpet and Leyna Marika Papach from Thirlwell's Manorexia ensemble on violin. In addition, Elliot Hoffman of Carbomb plays drums on a track, and there are appearances from Ed Pastorini, Jeff Davidson and Christian Gibbs (Lucinda Blackbear).
File Size:106.7 mb
'Hide' unquestionably marks yet another fantastic addition to the already astounding Foetus catalogue, and is one of those albums that demands repeat listening, and lots of it
Christopher Nosnibor -whisperinandhollerin.com
Ambitious, overwhelming, rough, rugged.... saddle up for a blaze into a flawed but ambitious psychedelic opera.
Hydroze Plus is Fred Bigot: instruments/music & JG Thirlwell: vocals/lyrics
Composed by Fred Bigot (GEMA) and JG Thirlwell (Ectopic Music)
Recorded at Nolite Studio, Berlin, 2005-2009 with additional recording at Self Immolation Studios, Brooklyn.
1. Overcoat (4′45)
2. Belladonna (4′18)
(CalmCalm remix by Fred Bigot)
3. Epi-Dose (4′18)
(Overcoat remix by JG Thirlwell)
4. CalmCalm (5′36)
File Size: 43.3 mb
Exclusive website-only limited release. Unavailable elsewhere!
LIMB is an archival release of experimental and minimalist compositions recorded from 1980-1983, from the early days of Foetus and pre-Foetus. Though the material is largely unreleased, some of the pieces have been previously released on the compilation albums by Coil and United Dairies. Some were excavated and some of it was reconstructed or re-edited from compositions on cassette. One piece is constructed from an organ part written in 1982, which JG took the liberty of finishing in 2008. These pieces were made before the introduction of MIDI and sampling technology. It shows the lineage and genesis of some of the methods that JG is working in today.
File Size:165mb
The original score from the hit Adult Swim cartoon The Venture Bros, composed and performed by JG Thirlwell.
"JG Thirlwell''s brilliant music for The Venture Brothers injects new energy to the world of cartoon soundtracks. An extension of his work with Steroid Maximus, the music is filled with honesty, imagination and excitement. Like all great soundtrack composers, JGT is a compendium of music history and he jumps easily from one genre to another with flamboyant style - mambo, drum ''n'' bass, electronica, 20th century classical, lounge, calliope carousel, big band jazz - nothing seems to escape his unerring ear, but no matter where he goes, he always remains uniquely himself. ...This is great music." John Zorn, NYC 2008 (from the sleeve notes)
To regard VEIN as purely a remix album is to underestimate its intentions and ambitions. VEIN has material from 2005's LOVE fractured and re-imagined by some of today's most notable artists. It is an immersive, powerful and sometimes harrowing cinematic journey through sound and emotion. Includes contributions by Fennesz, Mike Patton, Jay Wasco, TujikoNuriko, Jason Forrest, TRZTN (of Services), Tweaker, Matmos, TomRecchion and J.G. Thirlwell.
File Size: 106.1 mb
Exclusive website-only limited release. Unavailable elsewhere!
Ectopic Ents has released DAMP, a new Foetus album which is a "satellite appendix" album, exclusively thru the Shop page on this website. The music consists mainly of unreleased material as well as some rare material.
File Size: 165.6 mb
Sometimes darkly disorienting, sometimes rhythmic and occasionally almost treading on Steroid Maximus territory, the first thirty-five minutes (eight pieces), gradually build to a frenzy, through soundscapes, alien ethnicities, passing the eavesdropped sounds of sinister goings-on, on into haunting lullabies culminating in a epic eleven-minute-plus chase-opera...
The second part of the album, the final four pieces, are beautiful and twisted and enveloping, sometimes best listened to in a semi-somnambulistic state; by the end, the listener may find themselves in paroxysms of ecstasy at the beauty and sadness and strangeness and other-wordly quality of this cycle.
File Size: 144.9 mb
Steroid Maximus is the instrumental guise of the inscrutable J.G.Thirlwell (aka FOETUS). This highly acclaimed long awaited album contains the cinematic stylings of JGT encompassing twisted neo-blaxploitation, spy/crime noir-intrigue, haunting soundscapes, sinuous carnal funk, exotic soundtracks of the unimagined and ethnic music from civilisations yet to be invented!
File Size: 123.8 mb
Tapping into his instincts, Thirlwell completed the instrumental Volvox Turbo, album within six weeks (a record time for him) and released this exclusively through the online shop. An intensely psychological symphony, the album orbits several multiethnic soundscapes - from Moroccan to Martian - and manipulates those studio mistakes others try to avoid into 14 strangely compelling merging movements. It's been called "a noir narrative filled with anticipation, foreboding and icy climaxes." It resonates more with deep listening. It's a killer acid trip
without the LSD.
File Size: 146.4 mb
The mighty millenial debut features eleven fresh monsterpieces from the driving hits "Need Machine" and "Quick Fix" to the dramatic churning epics "Mandelay" and "Kreibabe" to the cinematic bombast of "Suspect:" and breakneck bigband of "Heuldoch" this is an exhausting,exhaustive roller coaster thru the fevered imagination of JG Thirlwell.
"Equal doses of rock thunder and jazzy sleaze, spiked with orchestral grandeur and vocal dynamite set the stage for 1000 petty crimes, prostitution, gambling, divorce, dipsomania, assaults, bribery, craven depravity, driving while putting on your makeup and talking on the cell phone, mayhem and murder......Flow is more than an album - it's an extravaganza! " - Legends magazine
File Size: 145.8 mb
Null and Void were conceived as companion EPs that were released at the same time as GASH. They were later combined into this album. It features many tracks unavailable on other releases plus several remixes of the "hit" "Verklemmt". It also features "See Dick Run" from the Spooky songs For Kids EP and "Incesticide", previously a Reflex magazine flexidisc . Running time is 64:51
File Size: 137.3 mb
The classic bone quaking, pulverizing release. The only Foetus album on Sony. Orchestras, horns, guitars and noise collide and erupt in this sick symphony.
"Finally swept into major-label clutches in '95, Foetus spewed up Gash, a magnificent chopper of industrial gruesomeness, vintage horn jazz (check the eleven-minute extravaganza "Slung" for snappy music your grandparents would not condone), sly samples and what can only be described as the string-laden lullaby of hell. Presumably working with the first big studio budget of his career, Foetus gets it all in the grooves, lashing together an eclectic collection as advanced and ambitious as anything he's done." -Trouser Press
File Size: 134.1 mb
A huge live album originally released as a double CD and live DVD, recorded at CBGB. You get the entire whopping 100 minute + double album for the price of a single album.
The lineup on this album is JG Thirlwell - vocals; Algis Kizys - bass (Swans); Norman Westberg - guitar (Swans); David Ouimet - keys/trombone (Cop Shoot Cop/Motherhead Bug ; Hahn Rowe - violin (Hugo Largo/Liminal); Vinnie Signorelli - drums (Unsane/Swans)
File Size: 237mb
Wiseblood is an electronic noise-rock band formed by Clint Ruin (aka J. G. Thirlwell) and Roli Mosimann. In Thirlwell’s words, the album Dirtdish is "sick, violent and macho" American [music] made by non-Americans. The material tends toward the realm of the darkest and most sexual Foetus songs, with Mosimann’s Swans lineage showing in the slow, crushing pacing of many tracks.
JG Thirlwell‘s new musical project is Xordox. This is the first album entitled Neospection, released on the highly respected and influential Editions Mego label. Neospection is predominantly a synthesizer record, recorded at Self Immolation studios in Brooklyn, although it also includes overdubs of Buchla and Serge synthesizer created during Thirlwell’s residency at the legendary EMS Studio in Stockholm. The album features Noveller’s Sarah Lipstate on guitar on three of the eight tracks.7 of 8 tracks appear on the vinyl LP version. The vinyl also comes with a download code so the buyer may obtain the full album digitally.
The long-awaited follow up to the highly popular score from the hit Adult Swim cartoon The Venture Bros, composed and performed by JG Thirlwell. Please respect the wishes of this artist by not uploading material to blogs, torrents, P2P services and social sharing sites. The vinyl also comes with a download code so the buyer may obtain the full album digitally.
