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Nicola Ratti

Nicola Ratti bases his music upon the search for a personal language that is capable of joining together basic song structure, electro-acoustic experimentation, and the use of sounds extracted from the environment in which we live, with a sensibility that ranges from improvisation to the almost artisanal construction of sound. The use of voice and words compete to create a result full of nuance and discovery within compositions which remain open to both formal and emotional points of view.

Nicola Ratti bases his music upon the search for a personal language that is capable of joining together basic song structure, electro-acoustic experimentation, and the use of sounds extracted from the environment in which we live, with a sensibility that ranges from improvisation to the almost artisanal construction of sound. The use of voice and words compete to create a result full of nuance and discovery within compositions which remain open to both formal and emotional points of view.

Member of: Bellows
Lieu
FaravelliRatti is a duo comprised of Nicola Ratti (guitar) and Attila Faravelli (computer) who play with a tower of different prepared speakers and a taper recorder in between them. The idea is to fed speakers with different languages in the same space and have them resonate with the phisical space. Every speaker is prepared and positioned so the resonance can be controlled by the players, moving their bodies around the sound totem in between them. Their live set represent this idea, of building…
Ode
Brand new solo release for guitarist Nicola Ratti with his languid, disarming sound of small and gentle gestures and loping rhythms, often repeated and subtly shifting in an impressionistic vision founded on traditional elements. Merging guitar, piano and double bass with percussion, environmental sounds and occasional voice, Nicola constructs songs that by turns float, swell and envelop in magnetic fashion. A piercing tenderness remains at the core of his work, though on Ode there is a more exp…
From the Desert Came Saltwater
Italian-born multi-instrumentalist and architect, Nicola Ratti, presents his debut for Anticipate. Nicola's music can best be described as warm, subtractive rock, whereby he reduces guitar figures and piano passages into quiet explorations of the hidden corners of an otherwise familiar sound. Guitars twang with slight and spacious percussion and softly hushed (occasional) vocals and atmospheric twinkles congeal into a carefully-composed re-imagining of music. In terms of situating this album in …
Bellows
Giuseppe Ielasi and Nicola Ratti: guitars, percussion, turntables, electronics. Recorded and mixed in april-may, 2006. Collages by Michel Doneda. "Another gem from the Kning Disk catalogue, this album by Giuseppe Ielasi and Nicola Ratti takes up a little more bandwidth than Ielasi's recent 12k album, and over the course of these seven untitled pieces you'll hear tangles of light, impressionistic post-rock laced with microsound-style field recording examinations and feedback tones. The first coup…
One Day With My Fishing Umbrella
*last copies* Beautiful self-released 10" in Vincent Gallo's 'when' vein, 8 songs between songwriting and electroacoustics, a great preview for his wonderous full album "Prontuario per giovani foglie". With Giuseppe Ielasi and Jacopo Andreini.
Prontuario per giovani foglie
Made strong by a compositional sensitivity centered on the electro-acoustic and the assemblage of sonorous material, by a passionate interest in sound, and by a meticulous process of musical construction, Nicola Ratti reaches a long postponed introduction after the excellent 10" ep "One day with my fishing umbrella" released in September of 2004.In this "Prontuario per giovani foglie" ("Handbook for Young Leaves") Nicola melts together manipulations of field recordings, electric and acoustic gui…
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