Cargo Records

Hell Is Invisible...Heaven Is Her/e

Counter Cultural provocateur Genesis Porridge and her reactivated Psychic TV aka "PTV3" will be releasing Hell Is Invisible, Heaven is Her/e, executive produced by Edward ODowd, Baba Larraji and P-Orridge.

The first new studio album from PTV3/Psychic TV since 1995's Trip Reset, Hell Is Invisible, Heaven is Her/e was engineered and recorded by Nicholas Kramer and David Maxxx at Microriot Music Studio, Jersey City, NJ, January 2005 - March 2006, and mixed by ibu600, Baba Larriji and Genesis at Nasik Studio on Alcatraz, Oakland, CA. PTV3 comprises of Markus "Fabulous" Persson on keyboards, drummer Morrison Edley aka Edward ODowd (also of Toilet Boys), guitarist David Maxxx (developing from The Tadpoles), Alice Genese on bass guitar and vocals (formally of Pretty Boys), Retinal Stimulation Video programming for live "gigs" and other elements of the PTV3 project is by Nicolas Jenkins (Sterile Cowboys Productions) in association with Genesis (for Porridge With Everything Inc.), Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge on sampling keyboards (also of Thee Majesty) and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge - lead voices, noise bass guitar, electric violin (also of Throbbing Gristle and Thee Majesty).

While Hell Is Invisible, Heaven is Her/e is the first recording by PTV3. However, the current line-up has been active for the past two years, and much of the material on the new album was developed from ideas that emerged during PTV3's extensive North American and European touring. Throughout 2005, Genesis and ODowd led the group in slowly fleshing out and refining the new songs with Edward having a decisive hand in their shaping. Then special guests were invited to add finishing flourishes: the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Nick Zinner contributes his distinctive guitar playing to "In Thee Body" and G 1 H "Maximum Swing," the Butthole Surfers' Gibby Haynes adds vocals to "Maximum Swing" and "I Don't Think So," and renowned author Douglas Rushkoff -- the original keyboardist of PTV3 -- plays on "Lies And Then." Whilst this album is not a "concept album" or a musical play per se, it does center around a more or less chronological journey through death to resurrection of the physical body and through confusion via revelation to spiritual epiphany. All of the experiences unfold viewed through the magickal lens of "Pandrogeny." Pandrogeny is the core philosophical system of PTV3, deeply coloring the lyrics, CD packaging graphics and live video projections. The aim of Pandrogeny is to celebrate similarities in humans rather than be at the mercy of fear of differences as the only viable path to a unified evolution of the human species. From human to humane, where the "E" stands for evolution. Change is in and of itself always preferable to inertia. To that end s/he and her other half Lady Jaye have simultaneously got identical breast implants on Valentines Day 2003 and subsequently Lady Jaye has got a chin implant, eye surgery, silicon in lips, nose surgery, coloured contact lenses to match Genesis' color. Genesis has had cheek implants, silicon in lips, facial tattoos match Lady Jaye's beauty marks, larger breast implants (38 "D"), various facial surgeries, liposuction at the waist. Their end is to create a hermaphroditic entity called Breyer P-Orridge.

Track Listing

1/ Higher & Higher (6.19)
2/ In Thee Body (6.55)
3/ Lies, And Then (5.15)
4/ Maximum Swing (5.55)
5/ New York Story (6.32)
6/ I Don't Think So (9.22)
7/ Hookah Chalice (9.33)
8/ Just Because (10.14)
9/ BB (6.31)
10/ Milk Baba (7.18)