Dominick Fernow is the man behind Prurient and Hospital Productions. Prurient is one of the countries leading noise projects. From his early work of harsh cut up wall of noise and self-flagellating live shows to his recent developments of dark tinged synth movements seen on the breakthrough Pleasure Ground album on Load Records, Prurient retains the intimacy of a striking body of personal work through a slowly evolving consistency of releases.
photos (live shots by: Mika Jahma)
Prurient’s And Still, Wanting, a CD/five-inch vinyl full-length is out now on No Fun Productions. Arrowhead, a CD release of archival recordings from The Black Vase era, will be out soon on Editions Mego. Time is a Hole, White As A Lily, a collaboration CD with Thurston Moore including visual art exquisite corpse with Matt Kenny, will come out this year on Moore’s Ecstatic Peace label, and Prurient recently contributed to an art show in NY curated by Moore along with other music related visual artists in cooperation with No Fun Fest.
The Rose Pillar is an upcoming 11-inch full-length album housed in a 108-page hardcover book coming out later this year on Heartworm Press. A unique work in Prurient’s catalog that reprints an essay from the artist’s mother, Jean Feraca, whose new memoir I Hear Voices surrounds the shared experience of seeing her brother and his uncle, a brilliant but troubled anthropologist, through terminal lung cancer. The book reprints the essay while a dense dialog with extracts from the texts accompanied with minimal collages. Layers unfold to explore this intimate first hand experience of death within the family. Prurient and Feraca recently did a collaborative performance reading from this chapter at The Strand Bookstore in NYC as an advance rendering of The Rose Pillar. Feraca read while Prurient performed instrumental version of the tracks from the album.
Fernow’s label Hospital Productions, with a retail store in the East Village, has released seminal works from a wide spectrum of the underground’s best. One of Hospital’s latest releases, Ghosts of Niagra, a 10-cassette release (limited to 100 copies) by Burning Star Core/Prurient, sold out in less then a week. Current and upcoming releases include:
Kevin Drumm Imperial Distortion (2xCD)
Burning Star Core Challenger (CD)
Sutclife Jugend The Fall of Nature (CD)
Jason Crumer Ottomon Black (CD)
Malkuth Seffirah Gevurah (LP)
Wolf Eyes full-length follow up to Sub Pop releases (CD/LP)