Another set of rare recordings by the Long Beach based gothic industrial experimental music group, Ain Soph Aur, has been added to the Internet Archive. This 4 song collection was recorded at Bee and Johnsen’s apartment several months after the first band release, and each track was recorded separately with slightly more structure and intent than the former material.

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Ain Soph Aur “Nothingness”

by Ain Soph Aur: Anji Bee, Justin Johnsen & Alan Wilkes

Publication date 1997

Topics experimental, gothic, industrial, noise, 1990s, tapes, loops

This second collection of music from the Ain Soph Aur collective was recorded by Bee and Johnsen on their 4-track cassette tape machine, with significantly less input from Wilkes, though his presence is still strongly felt. “Obsession for F.,” in particular, was built around a reworking of one of his poems and the percussion was created in part by Bee triggering drum sounds via contact mics placed on Wilkes body.

Tracklisting:

1 Novena to Santa Barbara – 05:33

2 Nothingness – 03:01

3 Obsession for F. – 01:35

4 Actress – 04:47