Prurient
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| Prurient | |
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 Prurient in 2007. | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Ian Dominick Fernow |
| Genres | Noise, power electronics, experimental, industrial |
| Instruments | Amplifier, microphone, drums, vocals, synthesizer |
| Years active | 1998-Present |
| Labels | American Tapes, Hanson Records, RRRecords, Load Records, Troubleman Unlimited, Chrondritic Sound, Hospital Productions, Kitty Play Records |
Prurient is the performing name of noise musician Dominick Fernow.[1]
Career
In his early work as Prurient, Fernow worked primarily with a microphone and amplifier, and sometimes drums. He eventually began utilizing more electronics, and currently works primarily with laptop and synthesizers. On some releases he has been joined by Ben Barnett, Richard Dunn (FFH), John Wiese, Jeff Plummer (Immaculate:Grotesque, Shallow Waters), Kris Lapke (Alberich, MCMS), Sickness, Wolf Eyes, Macronympha, Philip Best, Sutcliffe Jugend, The Hototogisu, Carlos Giffoni, Wilt, Grunt, Nicole 12, and Emily Salvatierra.[2] Fernow was born in Wisconsin, lived in New York, and then moved to Los Angeles,[3] where he now runs the labels Hospital Productions and Bed Of Nails.[4] Fernow has also performed in various bands, such as Football Rabbit, Vegas Martyrs, Taylor Bow, Ash Pool (in which he also sings), and formerly as part of Cold Cave.[5]
Prurient has released material on numerous independent record labels, such as Hanson Records, RRRecords, Load Records, Troubleman Unlimited, Chrondritic Sound, Kitty Play Records, American Tapes, and his own label Hospital Productions.
Fernow has also recorded music under a variety of aliases, including Vatican Shadow, Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement, Exploring Jezebel, River Magic, Winter Soldier, Window Cleaning By Ian, December Magic, Vegas Martyrs, and Tortured Hooker.
Prurient has been covered in outlets such as The New Yorker, Pitchfork Media[6] and The Village Voice.[7]
Partial discography
1998
- A Simple Mark, cass (Hospital Productions)
- Blades Steam Red Sweat, Inside The Things I Dread, CD-R (Hospital Productions)
- Persistence, cass, split with Potassium Cyanide Dogbane Sentiment (Beeshu Records)
1999
- A Call For Help, cass (Hospital Productions)
- Entrepreneur, cass (Hospital Productions)
- Model, cass (Hospital Productions)
- Prurient / Jon Borges, cass, split with Jon Borges (Hospital Productions)
- O.C.D., cass (Hospital Productions)
- Observer, cass (Hospital Productions)
2000
- Collaboration, CD, with Richard Ramirez & Flatline Construct (Let It Rot)
- Mundane, CD-R, split with Sickness (Ninth Circle Music)
- Noise Split Tape Vol. 1, cass, split with Echo System (Brainchaos)
- Ornamentation, CD-R, collaboration with Goose (Zaftig Research)
- Point And Void, 2xCass (Hospital Productions)
2001
- Arbitrary Witness, 2xCass (Deadline Recordings)
- Body Language, LP (Peel Back the Sky)
- Collaboration, CD, with Diagram A and Furisubi (Hospital Productions)
- Guide to Grooming, cass (Monorail Trespassing)
- Hunt in Couples, 7", split with ASD (Hospital Productions, Anti-Everything)
- Magnified Healing, CD, split with T.E.F. & Richard Ramirez (Hospital Productions, T.E.F.)
- Mater Dolorosa, CD (Hospital Productions)
- Mummification and Prayer, cass (Hospital Productions)
- White Plains Leather: Black River Falls, cass (Hospital Productions)
- Valve Testing (Electronic Musik compilation, 1 track: "Pastune as Well")
2002
- Live Prayer, 3", CD-R (Electronic Musik)
- Something Terrible Has Happened and I Need Your Help, cass (Monorail Trespassing)
- The History of Aids, CD (Hospital Productions/Armageddon)
2003
- Recycled Music, cass (RRRecords)
- Troubled Sleep, CD (Truculent Recordings)
- We Set off in High Spirits, cass (Gods of Tundra)
2004
- 60 Minutes of Silence, cass (American Tapes)
- Fossil, CD (Truculent Recordings)
- Red Head, cass, with Pedestrial Deposit (RRRecords)
- Shipwreckers Diary, CD (Ground Fault)
- Starvation, cass (Hospital Productions)
- Sexual Magic, 2xCass (Hospital Productions)
- The Hidden Family/+White+, 12"/CD, with Kites (Load Records)
- White Magic, cass (Hospital Productions)
2005
- African Division, cass (Hospital Productions)
- Akitsa / Prurient, cass, split with Akitsa (Hospital Productions)
- Black Vase, CD/LP (Load Records)
- Church of Ammunition, 7" (Troubleman Unlimited Records)
- Devil In Broad Daylight, 2xCass (Chondritic Sound)
- Disappearance Of The Maya, 4xCass, split with Aaron Dilloway (Hospital Productions)
- In The Slaughterhouse, 7" (Hospital Productions)
- Love and Romance, LP, split with Nicole 12 (Hospital Productions)
- Macronympha + Prurient / Okha, 12", with Macronympha split with Okha (Dada Drumming)
- The Baron's Chamber, CD (Nihilist Records)
- The Warriors, CD/LP, split with Wolf Eyes (Hospital Productions/Gods of Tundra)
- Vegas Martyrs - Choking Doberman, 7" (Kitty Play Records)
2006
- Cloven Spike, 7", with John Wiese (Hospital Productions)
- Grunt / Prurient, cass, split with Grunt (Freak Animal Records)
- Heavy Rain Returns, CD, with Carlos Giffoni (iDEAL Recordings)
- Memory Repeating, 7" (AA Records)
- Pleasure Ground, CD (Load Records)
- Point and Void, CD (Ninth Circle Music)
- Snail on a Razor, CD, with Hototogisu (Hospital Productions)
2007
- All Are Guests in the House of the Lord, cass/CD, with Kevin Drumm (Hospital Productions)
- Caribbean Overdose, cass (Hospital Productions, edition of 200)
- Cave Depression, 3x7" (No Fun Productions)
- Cocaine Death, cass (Hospital Productions, edition of 46)
- Colonialist Nature And Misanthropy, 2xCass (Hospital Productions)
- Golden Swastika, cass (Hospital Productions)
- Prurient, LP (Hanson Records)
- Split, with Mindflayer (Important Records)
- Taylor Bow - Hate Fuck, 7" (Hospital Productions)
- Terminal Cases, 2x3" CD, split with Death Unit (aRCHIVE recordings)
- The Golden Chamber, cass (Hospital Productions)
2008
- And Still, Wanting, CD + Shield 5" (No Fun Productions)
- Arrowhead, CD (Mego)
- End Of Autumn, 2xLP, split with Sutcliffe Jügend (Troubleman Unlimited)
- Ghosts Of Niagara, 10xCass, split with Burning Star Core (Hospital Productions)
- Tylenol Murders, cass (Hospital Productions, edition of 20)
- Cocaine Death, CD (Hospital Productions)
- Time Began in a Garden, 2xC10 (edition of 100)
- The Black Post Society, CD (Cold Spring Records)
2009
- Blood of the Lamb, LP, split with Wilt (BloodLust!, edition of 100)
- Palm Tree Corpse, 3xCass/LP (Hospital Productions)
- Roman, LP (Harbinger Sound)
- Rose Pillar, 11" record, with book (Heartworm Press, edition of 500)
- Stars Explode, cass/LP, with Cold Cave (Hospital Productions)
- The Complete Kingdom Recordings, 4xCass, split with Wilt (The Institute For Organic Conversations)
2010
- Jesus, 2xCass, split with Nico Vascellari (Hospital Productions)
2011
- Annihilationist, cass (Hospital Productions)
- Many Jewels Surround the Crown, 7" (Hydra Head)
- Bermuda Drain, CD/LP/cassette (Hydra Head)
- Time's Arrow, Ep (Hydra Head)
- Stun Gun, 7" (Quasi Pop Records)
- Despiritualized, Cassette (Hospital Productions)
2012
- Of The Memories Of Friends, 2xCass (Hospital Productions)
- Oxidation, cass (Hospital Productions)
- Tiger Smells A Corpse, 3xCass (Hospital Productions)
- Wrapped in the Flame of Illusion, Masked in the Clay of Behavior, 2x7" (Dais Records)
2013
- Through the Window, cass, Vinyl, CD (Blackest Ever Black)
- Worship is the Cleansing of the Imagination, 12" (split with JK Flesh) (Hydra Head)
2014
- Washed Against The Rocks, 7" (Handmade Birds)
2015
- Frozen Niagara Falls, 2CD/3xLP (Profound Lore)
- Cocaine Daughter, cass (Hospital Productions)
References
- ↑ LLC, SPIN Media (September 2011). SPIN. SPIN Media LLC. pp. 88–. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
- ↑ Semtexinc.com Dead Link
- ↑ Nix, Peter. "A Guide to Dominick Fernow". Redbull Music Academy. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
- ↑ "Prurient starts new label Bed Of Nails". The Wire. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
- ↑ "Boyd Rice Returns to Noise Roots With Cold Cave and Z’ev". self-titled magazine. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
- ↑ Stosuy, Brandon. "Show No Mercy". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
- ↑ Doyle, Patrick. "The Top Ten Records that Recently Sold at Hospital Productions on East 3rd". The Village Voice. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
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