Vatican Shadow Byzantine Private CIA

Vatican Shadow’s impossible to find early tapes finally arrive on vinyl, kicking off a completist series of new D&M remasters with a first volume featuring: ‘Byzantine Private CIA’, ‘Mural of Saddam’, and ‘Yemeni Commandos’. Arriving under a shroud of anonymity in 2010 with the four tracks of ‘Byzantine Private CIA’, Vatican Shadow has since become one of the most vital projects manned by Dominick Fernow (Prurient, Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement). Daring to grasp the nettle of US geopolitics at a time when nobody else would (and that hasn’t really changed), Vatican Shadow hijacked imagery and text from a plethora of news articles, books and government publications, and used them to adorn and title his all-instrumental compositions, recontextualising U.S. foreign policy in a way that recalls how original industrial, noise and post-punk mutants used their art and music to express feelings towards the cold war and western socio-economics during the late ‘70s and thru the ‘80s - with a particular, explicit thread of inspiration coming from Bryn Jones’ prolific Muslimgauze catalogue.