Gianluca Becuzzi

*2025 stock. 190 copies limited edition* "Voices" is a project born as a live performance for solo voice and loop station. The study of tribal rituals of some primitive cultures has been the main source of inspiration for my work. As various anthropological texts affirm, shamanic rituals are not based solely on music produced by rhythmic instruments (rattles, tambourines and other percussions). It is often the shaman's sing that induces trance. He uses his own voice, producing guttural, hissing, shouting and all sorts of glossolal sounds, in order to open a channel of communication with spirits, demons and higher entities.

Abandoning the harmonic and melodic superstructures of Western music and its historical developments, to concentrate on simple iterative patterns, was the method I used to approach neoprimitive aesthetic forms, based on a song without words of ancestral essentiality. In ritual forms, in fact, singing is often deprived of certain concepts, of definite meanings, regressing towards forms of nonsense and, as André Schaeffner states, this regression can easily be exploited in a musical sense. For the realization of this album I only used my voice, occasionally filtered with few effects (reverberation, echo-delay, distortion), recording it track by track until creating a choral multilayer.

"Voices" was born from this process. It is not a work of ethnomusicological research in the strict sense, but rather of a path that by suggestive means to indicate the persistence of a relationship between yesterday and today, between us and our ancestral memory, between ancient mystics and modern technologies. The outcome, perhaps, speaks of the present and the intertwining of derivations that built it, crosses between remote futures and the past still to come.