Music from Italy

An unusual self-portrait of Maurizio Bianchi in a minimal and introspective version, "a discreet" sonic self-portrait, elaborated with soft and nearly abstract electronic sketches, cyclical waves, tangles of intersected sounds, stratified, continuously changing, manipulated and molded through uses of effects, filters, reverbs, choruses, delay... Expanded paces, rarefied and "apparently quiet" atmospheres, but at the same time always full of a constant sense of gravity and heaviness, of vulnerabi…

After more than 28 years the seminal contamination by Maurizio Bianchi / MB called "Sacher-Pelz" is finally back with dyslexic hollows in the hypertoxic forewarning of scrupulous connoisseurs: "In Hoc Urbia Miazi" is its irrational title, and you should take note of this for your survival ! Uncompromising & best quality old-school industrial-noise like in the very early "Come Organisation" times by this Italian Cult project! Scotomatous production subdivided in seven concrete evidences, realized…

The Industrious Tubal-Cain" which combines the old, harsh sound of M.B. to his newer, more experimental and often more minimal approach.

2006 release ** "'The 'elision' in the traditional music is a coercive and systematic dispositive necessary to assimilate two syllabic notes in one only. The 'elisionem', in the avant-gardist branch, is a sound absorbent course used amalgamate various sonorous elements into one. The main purpose is to generate an eclectic and axiomatic damping of the electroacoustic particles in order to proportion the achromatic fulfilment of modern concretism. And the final effect is phonographically disarming…

Subtitled "[An] Exasperating Sonata in Three Dissections for Enharmonic Pianoforte, Industrial Oscillations and Digital Emissions." Packaged in a hard cardboard sleeve, with disc envelope and inserts. Released in a limited edition of 100 hand-numbered copies.

3 long old school dark ambient industrial tracks from the italian cult project in the way of his old releases from the 80s. Subtitled "Based On Genesis Chapter 19, Verses 15-23". Released in a DVD case, in a limited editon of 500 copies.

New recordings from one of the true pioneers of noise music, Maurizio Bianchi. Two overwhelming, relentless, long-duration drone/noise compositions. Essential listening.

Based on the Holy book of Leviticus, chapter 15, verses 19-33. NIDDAH: Plasmatic symphony for electronic particles, erythrocyte frequencies and menarchal viola. EMMHNA: Hemolytic decomposition for neurologic piano, coagulant clangs and leucocyte sonances. The NIDDAH blood represents the life and the life is God's property, and He saves our lives through the EMMHNA blood. This globular realization dedicated to all the ransomed mankind.

The bran new album by MAURZIO BIACHI is the first in a series on SILENTES. M.I. NHEEM ALYSM is a decompositive triad for reverbarating piano and osmosized keyboards, idealized and carried out between the autumn 2003 and the spring 2004. Dedicatated to all the people they proclaim the liberation of the modest minimalistic sound. A true manifesto. M.I. NHEEM ALYSM is the first cd in SILENTES MINIMAL EDITION serie... Silentes Minimal Editions Packaged in a folding cardboard sleeve with insert.

Eight moving tracks decomposed at the upright piano industrious six thousand and twenty-eight A. M. year. Electronically treated by Sandro Kaiser in Hannover (Germany), May 2005. Dedicated to all the meditative people who is living in the environmental paradise. Released in a limited edition of 500 copies.

2004 release ** Edition of 200 copies. "Cyclic composition with electronic elements fertilized during the 6027 A.M."

Frammenti, i.e. fragments, is the new direction in Maurizio Bianchi's music. An acoustic-bionic composition for electromagnetic waves and cyclic sonorities. Left now are all the indeterminate atmospheres gently fluctuating, in order to reach a more formal and structured work. Still dealing with the fragments of our memories made of joy and tribulations, sensations and awareness, aspirations and disappointments, with the carnal and the spiritual assistance. This new composition, quite as literall…

Ees'T records is happy to announce a further step into the Maurizio Bianchi new production, a new compact disc which completes the Trilogy starting with the previous Colori and First Day-Last Day. This time the author concentrates on Time, or the inevitable. A sound counterpointistic journey beginning with the creation of the first human being, in autumn 4026 B.C.E. and passing through the two big planetary cataclysms. Then the individual experience of MB himself is investigated, a sort of elect…

Conceived in the same direction of the previous CD titled Colori, this new work found its bases in the revaluation of the events the started the Creation, when an intelligent and complex act of sublime love started our physical universe off, transposing them in form of 8 electronic compositions elaborated in a 2 year work. A darker atmosphere marks the background sounds giving to the whole program a more obscure and less 'easy' impression while the more melodic traces fluctuate without direction…

Zu have just finished mixing their new cd, which happens to be also their Ipecac Recordings debut and features collaborations with Mike Patton and King Buzzo of The Melvins . “Carboniferous” cd comes after one year of consistent touring in quartet with Patton. The album opens with an amazing, almost’ techno-hypnotic’, bass and drum assault only to be rudely interupted by what sounds like an insane, distorted saxophone. Time signatures are all over the place, but not out of  control, which adds a…

Col legno and Sciarrino have gone all out for this “world premiere recording.” The four soloists have been expertly mixed with other promenading saxophonists recorded on separate occasions, but most importantly, the package includes standard CD audio on one disc and three DVD audio formats (PCM linear 24-bit / 96 kHz, PCM linear 24-bit / 192 kHz, and AC3) on another.

The ARTS series which joins contemporary music and art offers a new outstanding achievement with the recording of Salvatore Sciarrino's Aspern Suite for soprano and instrumental ensemble illustrated by the front cover of the French painter Daniel Buren. Aspern Suite is a fascinating work or better a musical exercise over traditional texts and over the famous librettos of Lorenzo Da Ponte for Mozart's operas. Susanna Rigacci gives the voice for this difficult work, whilst the soloists of Contempo…

Arguably Italy's leading contemporary composer, Salvatore Sciarrino (b. 1947) is represented here by seven works for piano, all of which are performed by Nicolas Hodges. The title of the disc – Nocturnes: Complete Piano Works, 1994-2001 – is perhaps a little deceptive: Sciarrino's Fifth Piano Sonata, not complete but recorded here in the guise of two of its five possible endings, opens and closes the album, and the fragmentary Polveri laterali (Lateral dust-particles), at only a minute-and-a-hal…

He was truly one of the greatest. A collage portrait of Luigi Nono, from Due espressioni, premiered at Donaueschingen in 1953, to Post-Prae-Ludium (1987).

Luigi Nono began Como una ola de fuerza y luz (Like a wave of strength and light) as a piece for piano and orchestra in 1971, at the instigation of Maurizio Pollini. While the composition was in progress, Nono learned of the death of a young Chilean revolutionary and recast the work in his memory, with added parts for soprano soloist and tape. The resulting half hour work is clearly a lament, encompassing various expressions of grief, from stunned sorrow to anguish to the fiercest rage. As a kin…