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LOVE may have you scratching your head at and perhaps praying for,
the person for whom this a perception of LOVE
LOVE is a sweeping dramatic epic drenched in harpsichord and orchestras
and sound, with jarring left turns and bombast, intensity and seduction.
LOVE is a startling immersive journey thru the sonic excitement
of J.G.Thirlwell.
LOVE is the first release from Foetus in over three years and his
strongest record in a career of groundbreaking, genre-busting dirty
and blissful dark flourishing rock and electronics intensity. Do
not file under industrial. File under Mystery. This release goes
WAYYYY beyond all past markers Foetus has set for the awaiting pack.
…all you need is LOVE
CD WITH DVD
*Full length DVD containing:
*3 videos from LOVE including "Blessed Evening" directed
by Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) with director of photography Spike
Jonze plus the “(Not Adam)” video directed by Jeremy Solterbeck.
*Classic early live footage
*Trailers of the J.G.Thirlwell-scored "Venture Brothers"
(currently airing on Adult Swim / Cartoon Network)
*never before seen footage from the upcoming Foetus documentary
*ultra secret very hidden delights that are not available anywhere.
*and much more!
And EVEN MORE on LOVE, the CD:
*Featuring duet with Jennifer Charles of Elysian Fields
*Selected live dates featuring 18 piece band/orchestra
*J G Thirlwell has also been: Steroid Maximus, Clint Ruin, Manorexia,
Wiseblood, Baby Zizanie, and was on the original Nurse With Wound
records
*J.G.Thirlwell is currently working with Bang On A Can and Kronos
Quartet
www.birdmanrecordings.com
www.foetus.org
J.G. Thirlwell
Biography
The inscrutable J.G. Thirlwell was dropped on this planet some
time ago to bestow sonic majesty, chaos, violence & beauty and
cunning linguistics on an unsuspecting earth.
A Brooklyn based Australian ex-pat, Thirlwell has used many names
for his many visions: Foetus (and its many name variations), Steroid
Maximus, Clint Ruin, Wiseblood, DJ OTEFSU, Manorexia and Baby Zizanie.
His multitude of influential recordings under the name FOETUS and
variations thereof (including Scraping FOETUS off the Wheel, the
FOETUS all-nude revue, FOETUS inc etc.), has amassed a rabid worldwide
cult following. Over the course of more than a dozen albums he has
stretched from yearning orchestral soundscapes, meticulously organized
chaos, electronic swathes, blistering big band pastiche, crunching
hard rock and even inventing stupefying collisions of genres and
forms with a raw emotion and irresistible musicality.
His instrumental Steroid Maximus project contains JGT's cinematic
styling of encompassing haunting soundscapes, twisted neo-blaxploitation,
spy/crime noir-intrigue, sinuous carnal funk, soundtracks of the
unimagined and ethnic music from civilizations yet to be conceived,
among other things! It was this project that led to his reimagining
of this music to be played live by a nineteen-piece ensemble, including
brass and string sections and concert percussion, with musical director
Steven Bernstein.
As Manorexia, JGT exorcises even darker instrumental inclinations
over two self-released albums,"Volvox Turbo" and "The
Radiolarian Ooze". Baby Zizanie, a collaboration with Jim Coleman,
allowed him to explore improvisation and collaboration via laptop
with visual backdrops on several European tours.
An accomplished remixer and producer, he's worked his magic on the
likes of NIN, White Zombie, JSBX, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Coil and
countless others. JGT has also worked in film and even voiceovers
for MTV. His acclaimed graphic design appears on his sleeve as well
as gracing several magazine covers and fine art lithographs.
More recently JGT has also branched out into audio installations
(the freq out project curate by CM Von Hausswolf, with whom he also
conducted an audio workshop at the Stadelschule in Frankfurt), DJ-ing
(as DJ Otefsu), has appeared in an opera (Der Kastanienball in Munich
in 2004,directed by Stefan Winter), has scored a cartoon series
for The Cartoon Network in the USA ("The Venture Brothers),
and recently completed a commission for Bang On A Can. In 2005 he
will be writing his first commission for Kronos Quartet, which will
premier in 2006.
Thirlwell's new album as FOETUS, entitled LOVE (the latest in his
use of four-letter one syllable titles) will be accompanied by a
DVD with videos directed by such notables as Karen O (of the YeahYeahYeahs),
Kurt Ralske and Jeremy Solterbeck, among others. It is a sweeping
dramatic epic drenched in harpsichord and orchestras with jarring
left turns, bombast and seduction.
www.foetus.org
For more information on J.G. Thirlwell, please contact us at Magnum
PR
on 212 532 4650 SiouxZ
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