Between 13 and 16
Heavly influenced by the seventies, this band is able as no one to pick those elements and build them in a fresh and modern kraut-psychedlic shape. Playing together since 1995, the four members of Bron y Aur , attracted soon attention thanks to the quality of the first two demotapes (1997 and 1998) and obviously for two previous albums. Always considered a band who take roots in the seventies, they don't hide having spent their days in youth between Zeppelin and Sabbath, to b…
Corpi assolutamente immobili
7" w/7 differents covers: 2 songs, 11 minutes, released January 2001
Phonometak Series #3
Expressions of madness, allegory and bizzarre are the leit motiv of OvO's production, since ever. It looks like They finally decided to follow a melodic line, guided by percussions and dirty cutting guitars and bass. The vocals are still crazy and psychotic, in a punk attitude totally away from a song You would dedicate to Your mother. - Last track Ikusi Itsasoa is sinister yet quiet, like small spirits and smoking ghosts swirling through the darkness, while a flute starts trembling and p…
action silence prayer
** LAST COPIES** This solo work by the 3/4hadbeeneliminated guitarist Stefano Pilia can aptly be defined “ecstatic”, in the purest sense of the term. Each guitar note seems to emanate from beneath an invisible surface, lingering for a few moments only to drop back down and be replaced by another; different harmonics emerge creating a restless resonance, and tiny clusters of melody appear and disappear before fading in the haze of a gorgeous drone. Stefano Pilia (1978) lives and works in Bologna.…
knots
** LAST COPIES** Italian drummer Andrea Belfi truly drives his new solo release into a poly-rhythmic drum circle from another dimension. The whole work not only sounds wonderful but, more importantly, Andrea Belfi has developed a strong spatial sense characterized by a crystal clear cymbal tone, deep, warm bass drum, drone-like electronica and a never ending groove.Belfi manages to combine all the pieces of his puzzle into something with a consistent, downcast mood (The Wire)really a beautiful p…
Between Neck & Stomach
This is Italy-based Andrea Belfi's second full-length release. Belfi is the drummer of Rosolina Mar and is a member of Medves along with Giuseppe Ielasi, Stefano Pilia, Renato Rinaldi and Riccardo Wanke. In 2002, Belfi embarked on a vast project, which, in time, would become Between Neck & Stomach. The first recordings took place at Valerio Tricoli's (member of 3/4HadBeenEliminated) house in Bologna. Between Neck & Stomach is grounded on two core elements: the first is the material collected du…
Digital tranquilizer ver. 1.01
"19 minute EP from Otomo, his first this week. All manner of high pitched or just plain aggravative tones juxtaposed in a not-entirely-un-Mego/Ikeda-like fashion. Rather non-sleep inducing. By a long shot. Good for what ails you though." -- Hrvatski.
Did they ? Did I
Did They? Did I?, by Bologna-based Valerio Tricoli, whose only released work prior to this was an untitled cassette outing with Ielasi on Freedom From, is a fascinating if enigmatic piece that, like its cover photography, plays with the idea of inside / outside. Or rather, foreground / background - Tricoli explores the idea of distance and depth (real, in the form of sounds occurring far from the mics - a distant police car siren - or illusory - sporadic and intentionally heavy of use of reverb)…
s/t
Oreledigneur is the duo of Giuseppe Ielasi and Renato Rinaldi. Their collaboration started in 1998 with the release of the cd "may 15th" (Fringes) with Domenico Sciajno and Gino Robair, followed by the first Oreledigneur LP (co-released by Fringes and Fusetron), in collaboration with Alessandro Bosetti. On this cd, they are credited as playing 'big and small objects and instruments'. We can hear guitars (motorized, activated, and even conventionally played and filtered via tapeloops), field reco…
Aestethics of the machine
Lest you be in any doubt about the label's radical credentials, Elio Martusciello's Aesthetics Of The Machine comes with the following warning: "These recordings are very, very loud. They are dangerous to the ears and for hi-fi systems. Listen with caution. Moderate the volume control." All right! The last album that came with a health warning was Zorn's Kristallnacht, and this one's even more fun. Working with ultrasounds (up to 20,000Hz) and infrasounds (down to 16Hz), all that we perceive, wr…
Gelbe tupfen
This is another of Ralph Wehowsky's collaborative project based on recycling recorded material. In fact it's the "Christmas Carol" wheeze mentioned in Dan Warburton's interview with Wehowsky in The Wire 259. Gelbe Tupfen is a split album: Domenico Sciajno's "i.Dk.Sk." occupies the first half hour, followed by Wehowsky's own "Mneme Gelb", a 22 minute electroacustic suite. Sciajno is a bassist and software wrangler originally from Turin, now based in Sicily. Deploying extreme high and low frequenc…
The d&b album
Unless you're living in some parallel universe where ruffneck glitch anthems pack Dalston dancefloors, Sciajno and Prins do not by any stretch of the immagination create the drun 'n' bass suggested by the album title, although their work allude to more populist forms. There's plenty to enjoy over the album's five tracks. Prins's homemade electronics and Sciajno's fidgety computer processing create an extraordinary assymetric momentum, arhythmic yet somehow pulsing and direct, particularly on "Ca…