Ensemble Sacrés Garçons "Sanctification: Seeing The Singularity" CD
CD version of our third album, packaged in a four-panel digipak. Art and design are different than the LP version.
International buyers are encouraged to order via Paolo's Bandcamp page: paololbandera.bandcamp.com/merch
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 released on September 27, 2024, 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…
Credits:
Paolo L. Bandera – Andrea Chiaravalli – Mark Solotroff
Original recordings made at Broken National and at SRS, Milano, and at New York Electrical Works, Brooklyn, in 1996.
Mixed by Mark Solotroff at New York Electrical Works, Brooklyn, in 1996.
Mastered by Megan Emish at Acme Soundworks, New York, in 1996.
Contemporary recording engineered by Matteo Pace at Soundcheck Studio, Milano, in 2019.
Additional recording by Paolo L. Bandera at SRS, Milano, in 2019.
Mixed by Paolo L. Bandera at SRS, Milano, in 2019.
Mastered by Collin Jordan at The Boiler Room, Chicago.