Monofonic Orchestra
The End Of The Beginning / The Beginning Of The End
*2025 stock. 250 copies limited edition* Live collaborative recording between two pillars of Italian experimental music. Monofonic Orchestra is the long-running project of Maurizio Marsico, Milanese polymath active since the early 1980s when he studied Electronic Composition under Angelo Paccagnini at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory. His debut albums Music Design and Friends' Portraits (1981, Italian Records) were praised in the legendary magazine Frigidaire by Ranxerox creator Stefano Tamburini…
Starless Variations
Monofonic Orchestra reanimates post-prog memory with Starless Variations, a double tableau weaving live piano with modular synths and expanded studio reworkings. The album takes King Crimson’s legacy as kindling for nocturnal explorations, unfolding as an elegy for vanished futures and unresolved tensions.
Music Design
Original copy of Maurizio Marsico's 1981 debut release as Monofonic Orchestra on Italian Records, one of the most, bizarre, original and enjoyable releases of Italian avant synth wave.
Friends' Portraits
Original copy of Maurizio Marsico's 1982 second release as Monofonic Orchestra on Italian Records, one of the most, bizarre, original and enjoyable releases of Italian avant synth wave.
Post-Human Folk Music
** 2021 Stock ** Maurizio Marsico is one of the most extrovert, versatile and prolific musicians on the Italian scene. Always fascinated by artificial sounds and the interaction between man and machine, Marsico is an emblematic example of those musicians who - despite being born in an academic environment - deal with modernity and technology. During his career he has been able to range from austere experimentation to typically 80s Italodisco, from collaborations with RAI programme to cosmic elec…
The Sunny Side Of The Dark Side
"After the dark clouds of the '70s the world was changing and Maurizio Marsico, fresh off New York sessions with Rhys Chatham, started the '80s with a couple of experimental records under the moniker Monofonic Orchestra, published by the cult label Italian Records, Music Design (1981) and Friends' Portraits (1981). Stefano Tamburini, the creator of the legendary Ranxerox comic hero painted by Tanino Liberatore, was an onlooker in disguise in New York Marsico's exhibitions, and back in Italy he…
Musicdesign
2010 release. "Monofonicorchestra is not a disc recorded in mono / is not ambient music / is not funky / is not experimental music / is not funny / Monofonicorchestra is not avant-garde / is not pop / is not op / is not Dada / Monofonicorchestra is not fashion / is not hard-core / is not horror / is not Frigidaire." --Maurizio Marsico, at 10h20 on Wednesday, December 23rd, 1981. A country: Italy. Several countries: Italies. Late '70ss, early '80s. The ether of punk is in everyone's nose and disc…