{"product_id":"carlos-giffoni-pendulum-cd","title":"Carlos Giffoni - Pendulum (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCarlos Giffoni crash lands on Room40 with an ambitious new album of collaborations with Lea Bertucci, Greg Kelley, Mabe Fratti, Zola Jesus, Ben Chasny (aka Six Organs of Admittance) and Sepultura drummer Iggor Cavalera.\n\nSince 2010, when Giffoni was a relatively prolific member of New York's nu-noise elite, heading up the No Fun label (and the legendary festival), he's only released two albums: 2018's 'Vain' and 2024's meditative addition to the Ideologic Organ catalog 'Dream Walker'. Giffoni wrote the outline for 'Pendulum' in 2024 and 2025, quickly sending off the sketches to a handful of friends, some of whom he's been working with for decades. Under-sung hero of the New England noise\/improv scene Greg Kelley turns up on the title track, for example, and opens up Giffoni's pitchy synth drones with a brassy fanfare that's a million miles away from his work with Nmperign (or on Kevin Drumm's extreme music milestone 'Sheer Hellish Miasma', fr).\n\nWe don't remember if Chasny ever played No Fun Fest, but he was certainly knocking around at that time. So his contribution to 'Axis', gurgling synth sequences that follow Giffoni's own, close a loop between noise, psychedelic synth music and folk that the nomadic, genre-hopping underground mainstay has been signaling towards for years. And elsewhere, Giffoni sends out the signal to more recent contacts, roping in Guatemalan prodigy Mabe Fratti to offer her touch to album highlight 'Dermis' and tapping the unstoppable Lea Bertucci for some of her immediately recognizable tape manipulations on 'Dos'. Fittingly, it's old hand Cavalera, who's seemingly on a mission to collaborate with the entire scene right now, who plays us out, roughing up 'Whirlwind', Giffoni's muckiest cut in years, with the kind of laptop-bent noise that kept us going back to his Merzbow collab 'Nocturnal Rainforest' last year.\n\nDid we mention the whole thing's mixed and mastered by Jim O'Rourke? Well worth a peep.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 406px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3061868657\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=333333\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/room40.bandcamp.com\/album\/pendulum\"\u003ePendulum Carlos Giffoni\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Room40","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48269040025859,"sku":"RM4267","price":2347.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0285\/1694\/1956\/files\/a2553453884_10.jpg?v=1779869473","url":"https:\/\/meditations.jp\/en\/products\/carlos-giffoni-pendulum-cd","provider":"Meditations","version":"1.0","type":"link"}