Ensemble Ektòs — Semèia Kài Tèrata
CD (6 panel Digisleeve) + Digital
"The work describes an austere yet imaginative path combining stillness with the use of silences. A ritual reiteration recalling the most extreme experiences of certain minimalism and microscopic attention to timbral stratification." — Marco Baldini
Ensemble Ektòs are:
Michał Biel: Soprano Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone
Cosimo Fiaschi: Soprano Saxophone
Francesco Toninelli: Percussion, Objects
Hein Westgaard: Electric Guitar
Giuseppe Ielasi — its appearance, reflected by three copies
CD (6 panel Digisleeve) + Digital
Electronic music, composed and mixed in May 2021.
Original materials recorded in January 2018.
Luigi Turra — Prisma
CD (6 panel Digisleeve) + Digital
“It forms slowly, through the refraction of light. It penetrates and breaks it down, radiating the listening space among the windows oriented to the spring sun. Oblique plates, breath and transparencies. Stillness. Sound prisms.” Artwork by Simone Negri, “Accadimento 63” (2020).
19th August 2021
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Ben Vida + Marina Rosenfeld — Leaving
CD + 8pp Booklet + Digital
‘Leaving’ is the artists’ meditation on the absence and presence, fragmentation and drift of our present reality — “a strange dialogue, dreaming of each other through communication of another order… (François Bonnet on ‘Vertice’)”
Renato Grieco + Bruno Duplant — La Disparition
CD + Digital
Inspired by Georges Perec's lipogrammatic novel “La Disparition”, written without the use of the letter e. The music score and its interpretation reflect constraint as a process.
“I like to intend Jisei more as a subtle presence than a form of music”
A Jisei is one of the death poems belonging to Japanese tradition, sometimes referred to as the last words, the last images or the last sounds before the farewell. Jisei is composed of fragments, memories, field recordings, explorations on emptiness and objects having personal meanings. The album is informed by dusty impressions as if they were brushes creating forms which disappear as they take shape. Each track on Jisei is infused with restraint and stillness.
Guindani created an immersive space of meditation, crafted in a time span of several days, where gestures instinctively occurred in the present moment without judgment or hesitation. The intangible forms Jisei is forged with remind of life’s fragility, bringing profound sensitivity and faint traces, as perfectly expressed by the stunning cover by Italian artist Marina Marcolin, who is also responsible for the paintings inside the small book.
Jisei is a work to be slowly discovered, from time to time, for those who take the nuances of ephemeral beauty as a value to meditate upon.