Alessandro Bosetti – Didone

LP on Kohlhaas Records [KHS 018] out April 2021, preorder at http://www.kohlhaas.it/project/alessandro-bosetti-didone/

Giulia Zaniboni, voice
Dan Kinzelman, tenor saxophone, flute
Luca Perciballi, electric and acoustic guitar
Glauco Salvo, electric guitar, banjo
Simone Sferruzza, drums
Andrea Grillini, drums

Music and concept by Alessandro Bosetti.

In September 2019 Alessandro Bosetti was invited by fellow composer and curator Riccardo La Foresta to create a new work for a newly created ensemble as part of a residency program hosted by Centro Musica in Modena, Italy.
The very first encounter took place on Skype – kind of a prediction of the forthcoming physically distanced pandemic times. The first, straight-to-the-point question Bosetti posed to each musician was to tell him the history of their life.
The materials collected in the interviews subsequently underwent a process of anonymization, selection and cut-up in order to create the imaginary autobiography of Didone, a genderless character on whom Bosetti composed a combinatory poem in 84 aphorisms, six of which have been translated into music.
The ensemble consists of extremely different musical profiles: the contemporary soprano Giulia Zaniboni, minimalist banjo and acoustic guitar player Glauco Salvo, and four musicians with a jazz background such as guitarist Luca Perciballi, drummers Andrea Grillini and Simone Sferruzza, and saxophonist Dan Kinzelman (also part of Hobby Horse trio and long-time collaborator of Enrico Rava). Some of the stylistic features of Bosetti’s project Trophies (along with Kenta Nagai and Tony Buck) can be detected here and there. Persistent repetitions, mesmerizing sonic masses and extended, oblique melodic lines are here led by the clear and precise voice of soprano Giulia Zaniboni.
The voice is at the heart of this work: the textual fragments of the autobiographies are filtered through Zaniboni’s contemporary vocality, while informing the instrumental writing as well. Themes and textures unveil traces of words or sentences; fragments of biographies are embedded in the intricate instrumental dialogue between the two drummers.
A final layer was added by Ettore Tripodi, a unique and out-of-time visual artist who imagined Didone in a series of illustrations accompanying the poem.
Didone is a work about the reconfiguration and recombination of identities, where every specific sense of belonging melts into an indistinct swarming of possibilities.

Didone is released by Kohlhaas as a black vinyl 12” LP edition of 300 copies with cover artwork and booklet featuring illustrations by Ettore Tripodi.

Recorded at Centro Musica, Modena between 18th and 22nd September 2019, under the residency program Autobiografie strumentali hosted by Centro Musica – Comune di Modena and funded by Legge 2/18 Regione Emilia-Romagna – Progetto Sonda.

Mixed by Alessandro Bosetti.
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi.
Cover and illustrations by Ettore Tripodi.
Layout by Campomarzio.

Thanks to Riccardo La Foresta.

Didone

Didone A13 (Cos'è un suono bello)

thanks to @breadyscarethrough for reminding me this is a thing yo, his beautiful

Sometimes It Rain

"Roxane Métayer came to play les ateliers claus December 2019. She performed on our 1st floor where she surrounded herself with her violin, electronics and field recordings.

Born in France and currently residing in Brussels, Roxane Métayer is a multidisciplinary artist. Learning the violin at a young age, she also developed herself as a visual artist, creating drawings, sculptures in uncommon materials as soap, and in recent years video. Her work as a musician is of an equally spontaneous nature. The violin is often taking the melodic lead, but at the same time serves a drone background."

LAC020 - Roxane Métayer [sample]

https://open.spotify.com/track/17lEkvjq3OEIM83q4ow1a0?si=503cd2e7b25d44e2

oh yeah? look at you
thanks
haha
je ne cherche plus rien dans l'autre
tout est flou à chaque rencontre
qu'est-ce que tu veux me dire?
je ne suis pas toi
je ne te comprendrai jamais
à l'ombre des yeux
et au creux de ton âme
peut-être
the more you know who you are and what you want
the less you let things upset you
yeah

à l'ombre des yeux

fresou

Robe rehearsal 181017

Opening tracks from my debut album 'Waking, She Heard The Fluttering', released April 5 2019 on Room40 https://alexandraspence.bandcamp.com/album/waking-she-heard-the-fluttering

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"Her sense of field is broader. it is as if she is trying to capture a whole landscape of sound entire... Sound is sound. It is sometimes exciting, often enigmatic, rarely open to verbalisation. ...we ought to spend more time with Alexandra Spence, with our ears simply and honestly open."
- Brian Morton, The Wire

"Throughout, there’s a real flow to the otherwise disparate sounds, sending any objective significance (such as traffic, a news reader or church bells) into purely subjective, introspective realms. It is topped off perfectly by the closing piece, ‘Sky And Sea Were Indistinguishable’, whose cautious tones are left free to roam beyond ‘the field’. They arc beautifully across the listening space and ultimately fade so slowly that their end is indistinguishable, sealing the communion between artist and listener."
- The Quietus

Waking, She Heard The Fluttering

Begin / Bodies In Place

Simon Whetham - (R)ASSEMBLE - YARMONICS 2020

O.V.
https://soundcloud.com/user-548572485-894907690/rhythm-1

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morphaqin #1

TR131 - Blanca Regina & Wade Matthews - 'Roadrunner'

living on unceded Wangal Country ⌇ making sounds