Music from Italy

Giacinto Scelsi  (1905-88) has featured prominently in my music writing life for a decade and a half, ever since I wrote  Discovering Scelsi  on my first computer for Piano Journal (Oct. 1986), one of the first UK articles about this fascinating and …

The Complete Works for Flute and Clarinet: In both original works and transcriptions, the Ebony Duo explores Scelsi’s use of special sound colors and his coloring of sound. Transcriptions especially prepared by the clarinetist (and pianist) Michael R…

Crazy about the sound: the composer as a medium fHis bizarre way of composing earned Giacinto Scelsi not only fame and respect; he was also mockingly accused of dilettantism. Scelsi regarded himself not as a composer in the traditional sense, i.e. on…

An unusual, very nice release for Maurizio Bianchi/M. B. playing a decadent piano using sostenuto and damper pedals effects. Ultra limited edition of 100 copies

First issued as a very limited private tapes in 1981, now for the first time ever on CD for these early tapes by one of the most important figures in noise/electronic history, Maurizio Bianchi. These two discs were originally issued on tape in 1981 a…

This is the limited friends edition of 50 copies in a red Box Set with golden imprints instead of the black Box Set with silver imprints, especially for the artist and a few other people in relation to VOD. Handsingned copy!

Here it is: originating from source material previously released as the first SIGILLUM S vinyl LE "BOUDOIR PHILOSOPHY" (ADN, 1988), this is the digital perspective, a re-recorded, re-engineered version for contemporary absorption. Underlining the sta…

Clandestine auteurs the Opalio Brothers (aka My Cat Is An Alien) have deftly sprinkled our solar system with their beautifully fragile, arcane soundscape/tracks via their own Opax label, as well as multimedia collaborations with vanguards such as Son…

Long deleted, Limited to 400 numbered copies edition. "here we started shifting our early drones and layers into concentrated outbursts of maniac consistency, reaching out for initiatory spasms of disjointed rhythms and super saturated vocals. Origin…

This is the double LP version, featuring a full colour gatefold cover, full colour inner sleeves and 180 Gr. heavy vinyl ! "More than ever, fringe culture methods and cutting edge acoustic science mate for the generations of endless layers and bursts…

Maurizio Bianchi/M. B. used gelatinous comglomerates of consubstantial sounds, mixed with discretional eviscerated noises. Antithetic metal crucibles for contemplative adherents.

Maurizio Bianchi has been in the game for a long time. Since the late 70's he has proved himself to be a true pioneer of industrial minimalist tactics making it a goal to "produce technological sounds to work for a full awareness of modern decadence.…

A magnetotherapeutic leakage bridled in the impartial passivity of our univocal meditations the second haemodialysis generated by maurizio bianchi and akifumi nakajima, announces the new era of untamed audio-inflammation. both operators have sharpene…

First collaboration between Maurizio Bianchi and Akifumi Nakajima, the second one being the Mectpyo Saisei on Para Disc. Four long tracks of drowsy noise ambiance.

The duo weave a shimmering tapestry of alien drone, scattering bits of harddrive flotsam across squalls of ringing jetsam. "Improvisational" this recording might be, but aesthetically more than a few chronologically cultural links are forged with pio…

Versatile sounds macerated during the past two years, finally assembled by Siegmar Fricke using phonematic machineries. In the academese, a "cluster" is a simultaneous musical chord comprised of consecutive tones separated chromatically. In general p…

Are based on Psalm 23 the brand new recordings by the great Maurizio Bianchi. Maurizio surprises us again with his Valley of Deep Shadow changing again direction and going into new unespected sonic territories. Will you walk through the darkest valle…

Improvisation is the practice of making and creating in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one's immediate environment. Musical improvisation is the spontaneous creative process of making music while it is being performed. It's like speaki…

This is the reissue of a CDR published by SILENTES a couple of years ago in only 120 copies. Now finally available on CD with restored artwork. DEAD COLOURS shows the more quite side of MB... with an incredible dark melanchonic tough in vein of David…

Decomposition instead that composition. De-structured music that instead structured music. Not to complex and articulated technologies forrecording, mixing of the parts and mastering; not to onesophisticated production and maniacal and defined partic…