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FOCUS ON: Carlos Giffoni
- Official Website >>
- Label: No Fun >>
- Genre: Noise
Confused? Thought Carlos Giffoni was reliably digital, a posterboy laptop improviser and composer? Thought-- har har har-- he was the humble and generous musician he seemed around town?
Who would've thought Giffoni's first release on his own imprint, No Fun Productions, would see him exhibiting his dark side, Prurient-style, slumming with analog equipment to dodge the bright harmonies he can't help but send tumbling off his laptop?
Dominick Fernow, who performs as Prurient, and Giffoni are the most visible poles and role models in New York noise. Both release, record and retail; both perform; Giffoni curates his annual epic musical summit, No Fun Fest. An unlikely pair that nevertheless just released a split album, Heavy Rain Returns, Fernow has carved out purist space as the analog, sex-and-death demon down from Providence to cleanse New York. Giffoni, more mild-mannered and less confrontational, made his own gentler rep with colorful, granular laptop assaults.
