Maurizio Bianchi The Plain Truth Hot Release LP Available through the Helen Scarsdale Agency: $15.00 Here be the reissue of Maurizio Bianchi's classic album The Plain Truth, which originally came out on Broken Flag in 1983, first as a cassette and then as an LP. M.B. (as he has been often known) recorded feverishly in the early '80s, having been the garnered considerable notoriety for an album that William Bennett published on Come Productions that featured all sorts of Nazi speeches applied to Bianchi's death-noise constructions… without Bianchi's approval mind you. Undeterred, Bianchi produced countless cassettes (some of which are seeing the light of day some 25 years after the fact) alongside a dozen or so LPs of sickening electronics marked by funereal atmospheres and scabrous noises, that drew compositionally from the long-form strategies of Conrad Schnitzler and Klaus Schulze. During those frenzied days in the early '80s, Bianchi gradually stripped away elements from his music, arriving at two glacial albums of frigid electronics in The Plain Truth and Armageddon. These two albums marked a transition from a fruitful period of Bianchi's introspection on the cellular destruction through cancer as metaphor for the futility of mankind. There remains an existential horror of modern existence, but somewhere off in the distance, Bianchi alludes to something transcendent and luminous. The Plain Truth is a very cold album, despite that flickering sun that barely casts its light on the nether regions of the solar system. Along with those aforementioned cancerous records, this period of Bianchi's illustrious catalogue is one of the favorites here at The Agency. As for what the Italian post-industrialist has to say for himself: "The legalistic minimalist of nucleoplasm was acclaiming the plain truth of paradoxical plantation and potentiation radio-active revocable: tamponage trembling united. The recycling director at stage is thawing revealing tumor. Luminescent humus.