condition (booklet): M

11"x6", 12-page stapled catalogue with silk-screened cover.

A lot of Verba Corrige ephemera from 1994, centred on the Sigillum S / Ashes axis in the first half of the Nineties. Verba Corrige Productions was one of the essential Italian industrial imprints of the period, operating out of Vittorio Veneto and eventually absorbed into Silentes; its catalogue included key Sigillum S releases (including the 2016 30th-anniversary LP Astronomic Horror, already reviewed in this collection) and much of the Ashes catalogue.

Ashes was one of the Sigillum S side-projects that circulated primarily through the Verba Corrige network across the mid-Nineties, operated by members of the Sigillum S extended family and documenting material that sat at the edge of the project's main discography without fitting neatly into the Sigillum S name proper. As with much of the Italian post-industrial scene of the decade, the distinction between formal releases, side-projects, and split documents tends to blur productively, and Ashes occupies exactly that intermediate zone.

The ephemera lot itself (catalogue pages, promotional inserts, printed photographs, fly-sheets from the Verba Corrige 1994 programme) is the kind of paper trail that has since become harder to source than the records themselves. For a serious Italian industrial archive, Verba Corrige printed matter from the mid-Nineties constitutes one of the most informative primary-source resources for reconstructing the actual functioning of the Italian post-industrial circuit at its peak. The content gives direct glimpses of the distribution and editorial logic behind the most ambitious Italian industrial imprint of its decade.