Sunday, September 29, 2024

September 29, 2024 Update

 

Hi. I'm happy to announce that the new Ensemble Sacrés Garçons album was released on Friday. The Mercury Impulse is working on new songs and JR have been busy working on an idea for our first live show. We hope to be able to announce it soon. Anatomy of Habit is busy with album prep and we should be able to announce a final 2024 show, soon. If you're interested in buying releases from across my discography - meaning from different bands, etc. - it's always easiest to go to my webstore, rather than using multiple Bandcamp pages, to save on popstage. Thanks for reading! Mark
 

Anatomy of Habit

Formed in Chicago in 2008, ANATOMY OF HABIT has been described as a hybrid of doom metal, post-punk, death-rock, early-industrial, psychedelic, and shoegaze. Although they’ve experienced significant membership changes since forming, today’s band, which includes Alex Latus (guitar), Isidro Reyes (metal percussion), Skyler Rowe (drums), Mark Solotroff (vocals), and Sam Wagster (bass + lap steel), represents their longest-standing and most prolific lineup. The band credits their treasured chemistry to their intertwining histories as friends and collaborators. Rowe and Latus have made music together since they were teenagers, growing up in Indianapolis’ heavy music scene, while playing in the band Still. Rowe and Wagster create sweeping, pastoral instrumental music together in Mute Duo. Reyes and Solotroff are old friends who’ve played together for many years and they continue to record and perform in both BLOODYMINDED and The Fortieth Day. This deep connective tissue contributes to what the band describes as consistently effortless writing sessions and innately unified live performances.



"Paired Sentinels"
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The pressing process has begun...


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BLOODYMINDED

BLOODYMINDED is a heavy electronic band, formed in New York, in 1995, after the dissolution of the pioneering American post- industrial noise group Intrinsic Action, founded by Mark Solotroff, in Chicago, in 1984. BLOODYMINDED’s live shows are exceptionally energetic and are characterized by physical engagement, layers of abrasive analog synthesizer, aggressive vocals, and abundant feedback.

We know what we need to do... In the meantime, here are some great action shots - and one inaction shot - from our TV Eye show - by Sunnyminded Tim

      


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Ensemble Sacrés Garçons

Ensemble Sacrés Garçons is a post-industrial band split between Milan and Chicago and composed of Paolo L. Bandera, Andrea Chiaravalli, and Mark Solotroff. The three members are connected to numerous groups including Sigillum S, Sshe Retina Stimulants, The Sodality, Iugula-Thor, BLOODYMINDED, Intrinsic Action, Anatomy of Habit, The Fortieth Day, etc.

OUT NOW!

"Sanctification: Seeing The Singularity"

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Ensemble Sacrés Garçons is a post-industrial band split between Milan and Chicago, and composed of Paolo L. Bandera, Andrea Chiaravalli, and Mark Solotroff. The three members are connected to numerous groups including Sigillum S, Sshe Retina Stimulants, The Sodality, Iugula-Thor, BLOODYMINDED, Anatomy of Habit, The Fortieth Day, The Mercury Impulse, etc.

The third chapter in the ESG recorded history, "SANCTIFICATION: SEEING THE SINGULARITY", is available on LP, CD and DL, with the two physical editions packaged in completely different artwork, the vinyl edition being limited to 100 copies and including a 12”x12” double-sided insert. 

This album takes an even more severe approach to sonic existentialism than its predecessors, emphasizing a cut-throat metaphorical fury through the combination of crystal-clear vocals, cryptic text references, and overwhelming electronic arrangements.  

Departing from the bottomless pit of their previous album, “DEMONIZATION: THESE WORLDLY POWERS”, the new ESG album deals with revelation symbols and divinity paradoxes, heavily relying on the images of snakes to invoke a contradictory form of audio-redemption, where a distortion ordeal creates a punishing background through which only the deadliest sins are forgiven, while a new kind of singular lucidity slowly emerges… 


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All pre-orders have been shipped

For US orders, please visit: 
https://ensemblesacresgarcons.bandcamp.com/
For EU orders, please visit: https://paololbandera.bandcamp.com/ 
Rest of world based on proximity to USA/Italy 


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The Fortieth Day

The Fortieth Day is the duo of Isidro Reyes and Mark Solotroff, both key players in the heavy-electronics outfit BLOODYMINDED, a band known for its aggressive and confrontational live shows. In The Fortieth Day, Reyes and Solotroff utilize guitar, bass, drum machine, and analog synthesizer to create epic, blackened, psychedelic-industrial drone soundscapes.



Things are quiet now, while Isidro and I focus on Anatomy of Habit and BLOODYMINDED. All of our albums, dating back to 2006, are available to stream on all major platforms. A limited number of LPs, CDs, cassettes, and shirts can be found on our Bandcamp page. There are also two shirt designs available on Threadless. 
        

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Intrinsic Action

Intrinsic Action was an early American power-electronics band founded by Mark Solotroff in 1984.



Intrinsic Action albums and archival releases, dating back to 1984, are available to stream on all major platforms. CDs and shirts can be found on our Bandcamp page. There are also numerous shirt designs available on Threadless. 

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Mark Solotroff

Mark Solotroff formed the band Intrinsic Action in 1984 and he's a founding member of Anatomy Of Habit and BLOODYMINDED. His other bands include The Fortieth Day, A Vague Disquiet, Ensemble Sacrés Garçons, and Nightmares. He recorded 100 cassettes of analog synth music under the name Super Eight Loop and he releases synth-based and feedback system music under his own name.  


 
My contemporary recordings
 are available to stream on all major platforms. CDs, cassettes, and shirts can be found on my Bandcamp page. There are also numerous shirt designs available on Threadless.  

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The Mercury Impulse

The Mercury Impulse was created in 2024 by JR Robinson and Mark Solotroff. Robinson is well known for Wrekmeister Harmonies and Solotroff is best known for Anatomy of Habit and BLOODYMINDED.

        

Thanks to everyone who has supported our album. It's available on CD and it's streaming on all major platforms.

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The Sodality

Originally created in 1984 by Andrea Cernotto and Pierpaolo Zoppo, The Sodality bloomed under Andrea‘s guidance across seminal works in the 80's and 90's. The project was revived by original members Paolo Bandera and Eraldo Bernocchi for a 2014 concert in Rome, with Mark Solotroff on vocals, and again in 2023, for a live show in Dresden, and new recordings with that line-up, along with founding member Andrea Cernotto.



Photo by Hervé Marcel

All of The Sodality's albums and singles - including remastered versions of all older releases - are available via Bandcamp.


I have copies of our "Unburdened Underpass" CD via my 
webstore.

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Super Eight Loop

MINIMAL SYNTH MUSIC FOR ANALOG OBSESSIVES.
Overloaded tape saturation - no FX.
1993-1996, 2005-∞


     

100 remixed and remastered Super Eight Loop recordings are exclusively available on Bandcamp
T-shirts are available via Bandcamp and Threadless

 

 
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