a visual artist and musician active in the deathrock / anarcho-punk scenes of the California bay area (formerly a member of Crimson Scarlet)

Richter’s mastery of sonic manipulation is matched only by his astounding clarity of vision

Sometimes he was a one-man-band-traveling troubadour playing an electric banjo

Playing shows rarely and mostly following the "we'd all go see that show anyway

and Chicago punk

BLACK TO COMM - Seven Horses For Seven Kings DLP Neo-Crust a visual artist and musicianBlack To Comm is the solo project of German sound artist Marc Richter. Through his output both as an artist and through his eclectic Dekorder label, Richter has established himself as a singular voice of new music. Operating at the fringes of drone and ambient genres, his music is darkly magical and deeply atmospheric, underpinned by a signature surrealism. A relentless sonic explorer, Richter approaches the studio as his instrument, using sampling,