Ever since childhood, Jewels Of Shame has been fond of machinery noises.
When he was a child his dad used to take him to the factory where he
worked, and JOS would sneak in engine rooms and fall asleep to the
pounding sound of the machines. As he was growing up he started falling
asleep to the sounds of black metal, sludge, and industrial/noise giants
such as Merzbow, Maurizio Bianchi, and Throbbing Gristle. So when he
first acquired a PC, he thought he might as well try out make his own
sleepy music. He started making field recordings on a cheap dictaphone
and of the train station, bar air conditioners, and of the basement of
the Physics and Engineering departments of the university in his
hometown, which he mixed on the easiest-to-use sound programs with
samples from video games and accidentally conceived loops. He gradually
started adding recordings of barrel banging, breathing in the
microphone, meowing neighborhood cats, and later instruments, such as
the guitar, accordion, piano, flute, and other ones. Being a bit of a
socially awkward guy, he never published any of these tracks, apart from
playing them to his punk friends, and he eventually ceased his bedroom
ambient/drone/noise career in 2009, as work and studying obligations
prevailed. Nobody can tell for sure what got into him and he decided to
send Wormhole World his private recordings ten years later. Hopefully,
he will not dig out of his vault more jewels of shame
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