Forms of Things Unknown

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Forms of Things Unknown is an acoustic/electronic project dedicated to pan-idiomatic explorations beyond the pale of sectarian orthodoxies, being the brainchild and primary creative enterprise of San Francisco composer/multi-instrumentalist Ferrara Brain Pan. FOTU is essentially a solo endeavor, with occasional assistance from a fluctuating cast of like-minded artistic colleagues. Ferrara Brain Pan is a windplayer whose instrumental abilities range from Western orchestral woodwinds such as flutes, saxophones, bass clarinet and recorders to such ethnic instruments as the didjeridu, shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute), and kangling (ritual Tibetan trumpet made from a human thighbone). Harmonium, bowed psaltery, percussion, and digital/analog electronic elements further enrich the instrumental palette of Forms Of Things Unknown. Ferrara Brain Pan’s checkered musical career includes early collaborations with noise music pioneer Boyd Rice a/k/a NON (1970s), the mercifully short-lived goth-damage fiasco Bad Alchemy (80s), ambient dub project 23 Degrees (early 90s), and a fortuitous uncredited appearance on 1994’s Rien by Krautrock legends Faust. In 1998, Ferrara Brain Pan co-founded the dark ambient duo Darmstadt Pharmacy with Ure Thrall, initiating a collaborative association which persists intermittently to the present day. Forms of Things Unknown was launched as a solo recording project in 2002 and made its recording debut the following year with the mini-CD Cross Purposes. Th

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Pimalia Presents Smatterings Volume One [Explicit]

Cross Purposes

Black Trenchcoats & Swastikas 'n Sh*t

The Bone Tickling Nightmare Pig

Black Trenchcoats & Swastikas 'N Shit

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Pimalia Presents Smatterings Volume One

Cross Purposes [2008 remaster]

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Audio Odditions Kompilation III

The Bone Tickling Nightmare Pig (An Exercise In Futility)

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[unreleased]

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Smatterings - Volume One

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Auricular Audio Magazine #13

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