on the eve of 20 12 2012 Black Sun Productions will cease to exist.
Phantasmata Domestica, our collaborative work with Mikael Karlsson to be released this year, will be the final Black Sun Productions studio album.
We are rescuing from oblivion all unreleased Black Sun Productions track and reworking them to be featured on Die Götterdämmerung, the 7th and final installation in the ANACDRS series. This item will only be available to Premium Supporters and Patrons of Phantasmata Domestica.
It has been a decade of exciting actions and productions. We met many lovely individuals, amazing people and we are thankful for each and every day we've spent creating and performing. As we decide to terminate this mission, there is no sadness in our souls but gratefulness and a feeling of achievement.
This is not the last you will hear from the two of us. We'll be working together again in the future though we will manifest ourselves in new ways and under different monikers. Every end is a new beginning.
PHANTASMATA DOMESTICA
Three years in the making, recorded between New York City, Zurich, London and Barcelona, Phantasmata Domestica will be the final Black Sun Productions studio album. It is an epic and emotional tale about sorrow and loss, dedicated to the loving memory of Peter Sleazy Christopherson
Co-produced by Mikael Karlsson and Massimo & Pierce, the album features performances by Lydia Lunch, Othon, Cory Smythe, Fung Chern Hwei, Sirius Quartet and Michael Bates.
Tracklist:
Elements Of Desire Desperate Contract Watching Salo' Final Arrangements Dimenticata Abschied Quanto Al Futuro Danach
Running time: 41:44
Released and distributed by Anarcocks / Old Evropa Cafe (OECD157)
We thank you for your love and support throughout the years.
The new Black Sun Productions album Biological Exuberance has been released today as a limited edition of 100 numbered CDRs.
Last night, as the Perigee Moon looked down on us, we started recording our new project, Hotel Oriente.
Massimo has provided vocals for Remaining Silent, a track for an upcoming release by In Serpents and Seas.
Pierce has composed and recorded the soundtrack to "VAMPIRE Kult & Mythos", a documentary movie by rotten-art.com
We'll be attending the Queer Festival in Milano (Villa Vegan Occupata, 3-4-5 June 2011), showing Anarcocks videos as well as performing a live music act.
In this time of war and man-made catastrophes we wish you to embrace Springtime and feel alive, in touch with the earth and the sky and all the living and loving things.
Massimo & Pierce, March 20 2011
We dream in color
In spite of all the pain and sorrow and loss, the new year found us together and performing, surrounded by colors and musick at LOFT23. On New Year's Eve we've started rehearsing a new live act we'll be playing in Europe from the Spring onwards, based mostly on material from Biological Exuberance as well as new, yet unreleased pieces.
Despite the void left inside and around us by the recent passing of dear friends, we stand tall, unspoiled and unscattered. Hand in hand, we keep following that path of Light through Darkness, carrying the burning torch of a vision that will never shatter, of a dream in color that will never fade. ENOERAEW.
Massimo & Pierce, January 1st 2011
NOVEMBER 30 2010
BIOLOGICAL EXUBERANCE
On March 20 2011 Anarcocks will release the new Black Sun Productions album Biological Exuberance (ANACDR06) as an edition of 100 CDRS numbered on disc and housed in a cardboard sleeve.
A Subscribers Edition is available to the ones who will pre-order Biological Exuberance. On its release, subscribers will receive a copy of the numbered CDR coming with an original polaroid from the Black Sun Productions archive plus an exclusive postcard signed by Massimo & Pierce.
Biological Exuberance is produced and performed by Massimo & Pierce. Recorded ad mixed by Pierce. Artwork by Val Denham.
The Subscribers Edition is priced Euro 23. Please, contact Ariot Fleischmann in order to subscribe.
We thank you for your support. Without music, life would be an error.
Much Love,
Massimo & Pierce
Peter Sleazy Christopherson: 1955 - 2010
On November 25 2010 between 2am and 6am our dear, beautiful and generous friend Sleazy quietly passed away while he slept in his Bangkok home. We are heart broken and still uncapable to express with words the way we feel.
We loved Sleazy and Geff, his companion in Coil and in life for more than twenty years. The four of us lived together as a family in a victorian mansion in Weston-Super-Mare, United Kingdom, for about two years. We send Sleazy all our love and prayers as he's reaching his ultimate destination and reuniting with Geff. May Peace and Love be with us all, forever.
Elseproduct label is kickstarting the project "Of Spectres and Saints". The music and artwork on "Of Spectres and Saints" will explore personal interpretations of what lies beyond the gates of death. This collection will feature two tracks by each artist involved, including: Black Sun Productions, Esperik Glare, Surface Hoar, 3z13, Behavior, Icedagaz (Jesse Peper's musical project), and Adam Stalker (Mort Douce). All music is previously unreleased. This double disc, digipak project will include an extensive full color booklet of the "Shadow Portraits" series by Jesse Peper (www.jessepeper.com). We are hoping for an All Saints Day release date for this project.
Massimo & Pierce are recording and mixing Unspoiled Monsters, the second and final installment of the digital release of Biological Exuberance. A definitive album version of this project, consisting of 6 new tracks of ritual-electronica, will be released on CD by Tourette Records. Massimo & Pierce dedicate this work to the biodiversity of this planet that is disappearing forever. It's their declaration of affection and compassion to the Natural World that mankind is exploiting, humiliating and destroying. This work is funeral music for the sea creatures burned alive by BP in the Gulf of Mexico. Hidden Gardens, the first installment from this project, is available as digital download in the ANARCOCKS online store
PHANTASMATA DOMESTICA
Massimo & Pierce and Mikael Karlsson are bringing to completion their full lenght collaboration album, Phantasmata Domestica. Based upon Mikael's transcriptions of electronic tracks originally recorded by Massimo & Pierce in Zurich, the album will feature strings pieces performed by the Sirius Quartet written and recorded by Mikael Karlsson in NYC as well as a piano composition written, performed and recorded in London by Othon specifically for this project.
Rare and never-seen-before Black Sun Productions videos can now be watched online thanks to invaluable work of the legendary Ariot Fleischmann.
Thank you for reading, watching and listening and for your support.
LOVE from THE ANARCOCKS at LOFT23
AUGUST 8 2010
COLOUR SOUND OBLIVION
Massimo & Pierce wish to express their delight and compliment Peter Christopherson and Threshold House over the release of Colour Sound Oblivion - Coil's Official Live Video Boxset. This numbered limited edition is a stunning artefact bookending in magnificence the mighty legacy of Coil.
The dvd collection features 14 show dvds (of which four featuring performances of Massimo & Pierce) plus a two dvd "COIL'S RECONSTRUCTION KIT" containing more than 4 hours of projection animations and processed footage PLUS the accompanying backing-tracks to all the songs in question. The box is completed by a collection of postcards documenting Coil on tour, on stage and behind the scenes.
The Regular Edition with same box and dvds, though not numbered and with slightly different internal packaging will be available soon in the Threshold House store.
Beside being bringing to completion Phantasmata Domestica, their recording project in collaboration with avant-garde composer Mikael Karlsson, Massimo & Pierce are currently also carrying individual projects. Whilst Pierce is being initiated to the ancient art of tattooing, Massimo is producing a project of poetry, photography and music to be published as a book with CD and performed at art, literature and music events in the future.
MARCH 20 2010
HIDDEN GARDENS
ANARCOCKS is proud to announce the release of Hidden Gardens, the first of two installments from Black Sun Productions' current project, Biological Exuberance. The second and final part, Unspoiled Monsters, is scheduled for release at the time of the next Autumnal Equinox (September 22 2010).
Available as digital download only (MP3, including a printable file of the cover art by Val Denham), Hidden Gardens consists of two previously unreleased tracks: How To Destroy Aliens (13:12) and Bauma (13:26).
Price: 9 Euro
SEPTEMBER 23 2009
THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME
Massimo & Pierce / Black Sun Productions / Anarcocks are working on a number of new projects to be released in 2009 and 2010.
Titles include ENOERAEW (a Black Sun Productions + Bahntier full length album to be released by Rustblade);
QUEEN LEAR (Massimo & Pierce's other band featuring Val Denham and Andrew Zealley, produced by PSBEUYS);
PHANTASMATA DOMESTICA (a Black Sun Productions album written and produced by Massimo & Pierce with Mikael Karlsson and featuring Othon Mataragas and others TBA);
HIDDEN GARDENS and UNSPOILED MONSTERS (details about these two releases to be revealed at the time of the Winter Solstice 2009).
AWAITING WINTER SOLSTICE Up until December 23 2009 (or until stock lasts) we'll be offering the Black Sun Productions albums Astral Walk and The Milky Smell of Phantom Sperm plus the Limited Edition live album Porno Teo Kolossal in bundle at the price of € 40 (including shipping & handling). A set of two exclusive postcards signed by Massimo & Pierce will also ship with this order.
(Drawings on the left by Val Denham, 2009)
JUNE 25 2009
LIFE MADE US BEAUTIFUL AT FORTY
We've been through clear skies and dark skies
On different worlds, through countless nights
We've travelled through the steams of lovers
And wiped our tears upon their covers
We've been rebellious, we've been queer
And shaved our hair to fit the scene
We've had our ups, we've had our downs
And sipped absinthe with cosmic clowns
We've been as honest as we could
And unashamed, like bad boys should
We've been loved and we've been lied to
We've lost old friends and found new ones too
And all those years we thought life dirty
Should make us beautiful at forty!(Lyrics by Eartha Kitt 1991, adapted by M&P 2009)
JUNE 18 2009
Somewhere Between Desire and Despair (Tourette 10), a full length Black Sun Productions album featuring the legendary Val Denham, is due for release on July 23 2009 by Tourette Records as a CD 6 panel digipak.
Anarcocks is producing an Artist Box Edition of 23 copies consisting of the standard CD plus the Limited Edition CDR Poisoned by a Green Fairy, a 23 minutes long ritual, experimental track produced and performed by Massimo & Pierce with Val Denham. Each box is unique, signed and numbered as well as featuring a one of a kind Val Denham painting on the CDR sleeve. An exclusive postcard signed by all the artists involved will also ship with the edition.
Tracklist:
A Tale Of Two Cities Cobalt Blue Stars We Are The Hydrogen When In Danger Eat Us Mother! Absinthe Andromeda Flowers In The Trenches I Try To Kill The Man (*) Falling Time We Are The Monsters Emerald Green Val ium Time Uncaptured (*)
Written and performed, recorded and produced by Massimo & Pierce of Black Sun Productions and Val Denham. (*) recorded live by Stephen Thomas at the Transformer Festival, Biel, Switzerland, March 31 2007. All lyrics by Val Denham except A Tale Of Two Cities (by Charles Dickens) and Time Uncaptured (by Massimo & Pierce). All music by Black Sun Productions except Stars (by Val Denham & Testing Vault), Eat Us Mother! (by Val Denham and featuring Oli Novadnieks on guitar) and We Are The Hydrogen (by Black Sun Productions and Bahntier). All artworks by Val Denham. Mastered by Stephen Thomas.
Yours truly,
Ariot F.
PORNO TEO KOLOSSAL
March 25 2009
Massimo & Pierce will be playing a live soundtrack to MACHO FAMILY ROMANCE, an unfriendly takeover by Bruce LaBruce with Susanne Sachsse, Vaginal Davis, Black Sun Productions and the Theater Neumarkt Ensemble:
HOMOCCULT & OTHER ESOTEROTICA, a video program curated by Daniel McKernan & Richie Rennt including works by and about Black Sun Productions, Peter Christopherson, Ron Athey, Breyer P-Orridge and many others, is part of VISIONS OF EXCESS, a 12 hour communion with the ragged spirit of Georges Bataille curated by Ron Athey & Lee Adams and exploring the key themes of death, eroticism and the forbidden:
On May 23 ANARCOCKS will release the Black Sun Productions live album PORNO TEO KOLOSSAL as a limited edition of 100 commercially manufactured CDRs housed in hardpaper wallet (ANACDR05). You can preorder your copy here.
On May 22 RUSTBLADE will release the limited edition album SONGS FOR A CHILD, a tribute to Pier Paolo Pasolini featuring the unreleased Black Sun Productions' track SUPPLICA as well as tracks by Coil, Bahntier, Spiritual Front, Catholic Boys in Heavy Leather and many others.
A WELL HUNG MONK, a video by Daniel McKernan based on Black Sun Productions music and photographic material,…has been selected in the 24th edition of the Torino International Gay &…Lesbian Film Festival From Sodom to Hollywood, that will take place from…April 23 to 30.
