Label: Akhet
Format: Sound Object
Genre: Experimental
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*29 copies limited edition* A ritual object disguised as a release. Or perhaps the other way around. This limited edition of 29 units pairs a new work by Renato Grieco with a hand-forged bronze tuning fork designed by Swiss artist Alfatih and crafted in Naples by Ettore Palombi. Each fork takes the form of a small carcass - part amulet, part relic, part sculpture. Weighing roughly 30 grams, its resonant frequency hovers at the edge of silence: a tone you feel more than hear, a vibration that lingers in the bone.
Grieco's music operates in similar territory. His voice - that characteristic rasp, as if emerging from the mouth of a cave - draws in the natural world catalogued by Jacques Brosse in his mythological writings, only to transform it upon crossing the threshold of his mouth. A jellyfish becomes an excavated fossil, impossibly deep. A stone falls further than gravity should allow. In the darkness of the uvula, Brosse's taxonomy dissolves into pure resonance. Things are no longer found - only listened to.
Preludio opens with Polish vocalist and composer Antonina Nowacka on zither and voice, her spectral presence woven through additional electronics by Mifu. Glauco Salvo's banjo drifts through Interludio, while on La Pietra, percussionist Enrico Malatesta works with stones - the most elemental of instruments for the most elemental of transformations. Mastered by Sean McCann, with L'Insignificante recorded by Guido Marziale at Auditorium Novecento, Naples.
Every tuning fork arrives in a hand-sealed black box, wrapped with tape and marked with handwritten notes. Edition of 29, numbered and unique.