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01. Vatican Shadow - Deny Military Involvement
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02. Vatican Shadow - Archbishop 911
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03. Vatican Shadow - Cairo Sword Unsheathed
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04. Vatican Shadow - Gunmen With Silencer
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05. Vatican Shadow - Schwarzkopf Arc of Triumph
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06. Vatican Shadow - Saddam Statue Conspiracy
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07. Vatican Shadow - USM1A1 Abrams Exhaust Rises Between The Hands Of Victory
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08. Vatican Shadow - Shadow War In Yemen
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09. Vatican Shadow - Asymmetric Warfare Studies Group Double Game
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ARTIST
VATICAN SHADOW
TITLE
Byzantine Private CIA
FORMAT
2LP
LABEL
HOSPITAL PRODUCTIONS
CATALOG #
HOS 640LP
HOS 640LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
9/13/2019
Vatican Shadow
's impossible to find early tapes finally arrive on vinyl, kicking off a completist series of new Dubplate & Mastering remasters with a first volume featuring:
Byzantine Private CIA
(2010),
Mural of Saddam
(2011), and
Yemeni Commandos
(2011). Arriving under a shroud of anonymity in 2010 with the four tracks of
Byzantine Private CIA
, Vatican Shadow has since become one of the most vital projects manned by
Dominick Fernow
(
Prurient
,
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement
). Daring to grasp the nettle of US geopolitics at a time when nobody else would (and that hasn't really changed), Vatican Shadow hijacked imagery and text from a plethora of news articles, books and government publications, and used them to adorn and title his all-instrumental compositions, re-contextualising U.S. foreign policy in a way that recalls how original industrial, noise, and post-punk mutants used their art and music to express feelings towards the cold war and western socio-economics during the late '70s and thru the '80s -- with a particular, explicit thread of inspiration coming from
Bryn Jones
' prolific
Muslimgauze
catalog. The first LP contains all four cuts from Vatican Shadow's first release,
Byzantine Private CIA
, taking in the cold thuds and clamoring background noise of "Deny Military Involvement" alongside highlights in the militant trample of "Cairo Sword Unsheathed" and the sludgy industrial dirge of "Gunman With Silencer". The second LP follows with three tracks off
Mural of Saddam
, including the brittle, Muslimgauze-like stepper "Schwarzkopf Arc of Triumph", and the furtive trip hop of "U.S. M1A1 Abrams Exhaust Rises Between The Hands Of Victory", before concluding with some the project's most sublime work in the opiated lushness of "Shadow War In Yemen" and "Asymetric Warfare Studies Group Double Game" from the
Yemeni Commandos
tape. Sounding more compelling than ever, thanks to the remastering at Dubplates & Mastering, and with original tapes now impossible to find for love nor money, these vinyl pressings of early VS gear are practically worth their weight in gold.
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