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threads:
modern-psych
minimalism-drones
electro-acoustic-composition
electro-acoustic-improvisation
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| | | die schachtel (italy) #ds z03 cd christa pfangen “watch me getting back the end” compact disc - see me (4:12)
- today (3:07)
- i’m leaving (4:06)
- playing apart (3:06)
- showing you how a softer beat would work as well (3:43)
- tiding up, getting out (5:08)
- simply, just an object (3:33)
- the nail, the eye (4:55)
- getting back the end (3:45)
| the quarterly arrival of the die schachtel box is inarguably the highlight of my existence as a shopkeep... i hate to play favorites but in truth i’m feeling their cross-section of dusty academic tape music & contemporary electro-acoustic psych more than just about anything these days... said feeling easily traceable to the quality-control & general “wow” nature of their deluxe-but-simple editions...
so... here is a brand-new (january 2007) release on their “zeit” series (documenting contemporary italian music born of the same fertile breeding ground that has thusfar yielded 3/4hadbeeneliminated, giuseppe ielasi, å, and so many other mms-favorites...) - the debut album from the duo of andrea belfi (whose recent häpna-label “between neck and stomach” got more than a few plays around here...) and mattia coletti.
the two work a fruitful combination of extended-technique acoustic instrumentation and slight electro-acoustic treatment that, in my mind, bridges the wide gap between free improvisation and more rock-ish tendencies (i hear a deep gastr del sol influence here - especially in some of the “louder” material...)
the more work i hear from this axis - the more i want to become some sort of mad-raving completist (i haven’t a duff one yet...) - excellent stuff. |
| | die schachtel press release... |
| played, recorded, edited and mixed by mattia coletti and andrea belfi
mattia coletti + andrea belfi: guitars, drums, voices, objects, electroacoustic devices
mastered by giuseppe ielasi
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dszeit03 - cd
christa pfangen - watch me getting back the end
christa pfangen are andrea belfi and mattia coletti. the name is a hommage to nico, although the music has obviously no relation with the icon of the new york avant garde scene. they belong to the new electroacoustic/improv/avant-rock scene which is taking shape in italy and includes such names as 3/4 had been eliminated, valerio tricoli, å, stefano pilia and others.
working with percussion, treated guitar and an array of different objects and noises, they have given birth to a dynamic work of great beauty and reverberating rhythms, oscillating between avant folk and electroacoustic music. |
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