(Photograph by Robin Russell).

The performing moniker of Tasho Nicolopulos in techno ambient guise, Its Own Infinite Flower  is also a line from Aleister Crowley’s 1905 ode to the Rosicrucian ‘Rosa Mundi’ and symbol of the meeting ground where esoteric and erotic semiotics overlap. In similar fashion Nicolopulos’s synth explorations, which XLR8R calls “crystalline cosmic fuzz” approach performance as a ritual mode similar to a seance or a conjuration. His music is an experiment in rhythm, repetition, and harmony without using some of the conventional tools of synchronization and resolution.

Nicolopulos is also a fixture in the Bay Area underground music scene and is one third of promoter trio Hostile Ambient Takeover (another reference, this time to the 2002 Melvins album) together with C.L.A.W.S and Solar.