AutopsiA – Werkstatt (Album – Illuminating Technologies)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Cinematographic, Experimental, Neo-Classic.
Format: Digital.
Background/Info: AutopsiA this year released three EP’s in the “Werkstatt”-series. The legendary project strikes back together with The Dämmerung Orchestra releasing an album of eleven songs. Tracks from “Die Werkstatt 2” and “Die Werkstatt 3” have been featured while there are four more songs.
Content: If you’re familiar with the EP-series, you’ll rediscover most of the cuts, which are clearly bringing a sonic fusion between different genres; a mix of Industrial sound treatments, overwhelming Cinematographic and Dark-Ambient passages and an Experimental part as well.
+ + + : I especially like the way AutopsiA is mixing all the different influences together. It creates a fascinating and diversified opus, kind of Industrial-Soundtrack, which is clearly meant to get joined by visuals to obtain a total effect. AutopsiA again proves to be a project aside from established standards, but with a visionary approach, which can be simply summarized as ‘creativity’. I remain fascinated by the epic arrangements of some tracks.
– – – : I’m less fascinated by the Experimental passages, but that’s also a part of the project and the album.
Conclusion: This work probably is the ultimate chapter of the “Werkstatt”-series meant as ‘Sacred Ceremonies & Ritual Music Of Late Capitalism’.
Best songs: “Be The Eternal Day”, “Work For The Devil 3”.
Rate: 7.
Artist: www.autopsia.net / www.facebook.com/autopsiaofficial
Label: www.illuminating-technologies.comm / www.facebook.com/Illuminating-Technologies-224951170817
About AutopsiA
AutopsiA describes itself as a depersonalized art project working across music and visual production, gathering contributors from different disciplines. Its activity began in London in the late 1970s, continued through the 1980s in art centres of the former Yugoslavia, and has been based in Prague since 1990. Discogs credits Radovan Milinković as a member.
The project issued a series of cassettes in the 1980s, among them “Oscularum Infame” in 1987 and “International Aeterna” in 1988. From the 1990s the catalogue moved to CD through the German label Hypnobeat, with “Wound” in 1991, “White Christmas” in 1994, “Humanity Is The Devil 1604 – 1994” in 1995 and “Mystery Science” in 1996. “The Berlin Requiem” appeared on Old Europa Cafe in 2006.
Illuminating Technologies has carried much of the later output, including “Le Chant De La Nuit” and “Radical Machine /1/” in 2005, “Radical Machines Night Landscapes” in 2008, “Karl Rossmann Fragments” in 2009 and the EP “Muspilli” in 2019. One AutopsiA composition is part of the soundtrack to Peter Greenaway’s film “The Pillow Book”.
The “Werkstatt” cycle ran through 2021 as three EPs, “Die Werkstatt Vol.1” in May, “Die Werkstatt Vol.2” in June and “Die Werkstatt Vol.3”, before the eleven-track album “Werkstatt” was issued by Illuminating Technologies on 28 October 2021 with The Dämmerung Orchestra. Side-Line published a Click Interview with Autopsia on 4 July 2021.
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