Aishroo, by CZiGO

Aishroo

by CZiGO

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1.	NØT 05:25	buy track
2.	Sputz 04:18	buy track
3.	Aishroo 02:47	buy track
4.	Maccine 07:31	buy track
5.	Anshee 10:15	buy track
6.	Kohu 03:14	buy track
7.	Ziš 05:02	buy track

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Following up last November's single, ‘Ziš’, we're releasing CZiGO's new album on 24 March 2023. Titled 'Aishroo', it will be available in digital and limited edition CD formats.

Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington-based CZiGO aka Mark Donlon is the third artist on Machine Records to be based in Aotearoa New Zealand. Mark is a regular DJ for Deep on Radioactive FM.

Originally from the UK, Mark is a jazz pianist, composer, conductor, educator and music producer. He’s released techno/electronica albums on Sermak Music (sermakmusic.bandcamp.com) as well as jazz albums on the F-IRE and Fuzzymoon record labels.

We caught up with Mark to discuss CZiGO and his new album.

Machine:
What led you to this particular persona/project?

Mark:
CZiGO first came into existence in 2018 or 2019. I’ve always had an interest in Frank Herbert’s Dune, the novels and the films, and a remake had recently been announced as well which brought it into my mind. CZiGO was originally a minor character in the Dune story who gets killed off quite easily in a short scene.

He’s a very unimportant character and a rather unscrupulous fellow as I remember but I liked the look of the name as a name. Choosing a name that was an alter ego that created techno music and electronic music and also acted as a DJ persona has been useful. That’s how CZIGO came into being.

Machine:
Thinking about influences on the music itself, who or what would you say acts as some key musical reference points for CZiGO?

Mark:
CZiGO is a split personality. In one incarnation CZiGO is a techno producer and more latterly a DJ as well. But there is another side which is more linked to electronica and the world where that meets with classical - the electronic part of classical and electroacoustic music.

There are a couple of things of CZiGO’s which actually probably would count as electroacoustic music. There’s a piece called ‘Agnus Dei’ which is partly choral and partly electronic.

But essentially CZiGO is a techno producer when he’s got his techno hat on and a producer of electronic music in a broader sense, where it intersects with contemporary classical music, including ambient music. So it’s quite a broad palette, ranging from dance music to quite abstract music.

In terms of influences, techno artists such as Kenny Larkin, Jeff Mills, and Detroit Techno actually in its entirety really. That’s one point of reference. Another one would be that area around German techno, such as Moritz von Oswald.

In the broader realm of things probably a prime influence would be a Delia Derbyshire. That’s what partly got me hooked originally on that direction and that aspect of music.

Machine:
Tell me about the new album, Aishroo.

Mark:
The album reflects a mix of creative agendas. Overall, the music is a set of soundscapes - to an extent, they are ambient rather than narrative or teleological in concept. The tracks ‘Aishroo’ and ‘Kohu’ are collages juxtaposing (mostly) field-recorded samples. Sample-mangling by means of various kinds of effects processing is a big element in both. ‘Aishroo’ is the only piece which uses (my own) human voice.

‘NØT’ and ‘Anshee’ are impressionistic soundscapes that reference medieval/pre-Christian Celtic and Norse spriitual mythology. ‘Sputz’, ‘Maccine’, and ‘Ziš’ explore the intersection of real-time improvisational approaches and the manipulation of granular synthesis processes.

Machine:
Getting technical, what did you use to make these tracks?

Mark:
I used Ableton as a platform on a Macbook. Two Rode mics for field recordings. A midi keyboard controller, Novation Launchpad, and Pioneer DJ SX decks.

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released March 24, 2023

Made by Mark Donlon.

Cover design by Dan Haines Cohen. Photo by Mark Donlon.

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