• O C T. XX. • Jonathan Briley — “Whimpering Wails of Woe”

From the 1985 album Darker Profits

Johnathan Briley was an experimental musician with a knack for manipulating sounds into a strange and sometimes unsettling collage. He was active as a solo artist from 1985–88, releasing seven cassettes under his name, but is probably best remembered for his extensive work with Sleep Chamber, a group fronted by John Zewizz (founder of the Inner-X-Musick label) that evolved from Nurse With Wound style musique concrete cut-ups, ritual industrial and ambient, and eventually even EBM influenced stuff.