illàchime quartet is an instrumental ensemble founded in naples (italy) by fabrizio elvetico and gianluca paladino. it joins electronics and acoustic instruments. it gathers sounds and noises from the surroundings as well as scattered fragments of acoustic memories, which form the texture for the interventions of the musicians along rough and terse lines, often improvised. final target: to intrigue and to seduce the audience by means of an unconventional, highly kinematic sonic experience.

the band released its eponymous first album in 2004, then a contribute on the vol. 9 of bip_hop generation series (previous volumes of this compilation contained tracks by artists as murcof, scanner, mira calix, phonem). another release is planned for a compilation by the dublin-based label psychonavigation records.
the second album (february 2009), i'm normal my heart still works, is released by the italian labels fratto9/underthesky and lizard. some international artists have given their contribution to the album: mark stewart (voice of pop group and maffia), graham lewis (voice and bass player of wire), rhys chatham (avantgarde musician from new york) and salvatore bonafede (one of the most well-known italian jazzists).

through the last two years, the music of illachime quartet has stimulated imagination in other musicians. amongst them: mark stewart again, dirk dresselhaus a.k.a. schneider tm, retinat.it (a band that releases for the chicago based label hefty records), domenico sciajno (an electronic performer/composer who has worked with alvin curran, kim cascone, tim hodgkinson, cor fuller and many others) and emanuele errante (karaoke kalk, apegenine), and FERC (a side project by fabrizio elvetico from illachime and rossella cangini, an experimental vocalist from turin). the result is a new remix album out now (july 2012), named "sales".

(Angelo Dragotto) ITA  Musician, Composer, Instrumentalist, 

The Elvetico/Cangini duo FERC is a jazz/industrial/visual project that joins acoustic sounds and electronic treatments, starting from circular sequences in continuous transformation and from various kind of sounds and noises. In this scenario, the two musicians intervene by means of improvised lines that aim to accumulate tension. Picking up from a background that includes contemporary music, jazz, punk, electroacoustic landscapes, the duo never forgets the goal of seducing the listener, melting together physical approach and musical research. FERC performances include also real time video drawing and processing.
FABRIZIO ELVETICO was born in Naples and studied piano and composition - with Franco Donatoni among others - gaining his diploma in choral music and graduating in studies of the history of aesthetics with a thesis on the works of Pierre Boulez. His compositions have been performed in public by polyphonic choirs and chamber music ensembles under his direction. He has had an intense studio and concert activity in jazz, rock and free improvisation bands since the late 70's. With Psychotomy has extended his activity to movies, audiovisual and artistic sound installations. In 2004 he has started with Gianluca Paladino a new band, the Illàchime Quartet which released in 2004 an eponymous album, in 2008 a contribution to Bip_Hop Generation Series vol. 9, and in 2009 a second album containing contributions by some international guest artists. He has collaborated, among others, with Mark Stewart (Pop Group, Maffia), Rhys Chatham, Graham Lewis (Wire), Schneider TM, Philippe Petit, Salvatore Bonafede, Domenico Sciajno. Since 1999 is also professor of Harmony and Musical Analysis at the National music Conservatory of Trapani (Sicily).
ROSSELLA CANGINI is a singer from Turin involved in vocal research and experimental techniques. She specialised her improvisation techniques within several different artistic contexts (experimental theatre/techno/avantgarde jazz/free style/rap). Afterwards, she gained in 1994 a CEE scholarship for show artists, she enlarged her knowledge of the various kinds of scenical techniques, including recitation, vocal expression and interpretation from the operetta style to the modern singing. She studied the Tuvana musical culture with Sainkho Namtchylak and improvisation with Ellen Christie with who still collaborates in live performances and recording releases. The list of artists Rossella Cangini has played and recorded with, includes: Billy Cobham, Don Moye (drummer of Art Ensemble of Chicago), Mark Stewart (Pop Group, Maffia), Salvatore Bonafede, Ellen Christi, Carlo Actis Dato and Claudio Lodati (founders in Turin of two avangarde jazz institutes, Artstudio and C.M.C), Marco Messina (founder of 99 Posse and electronic music producer), Lauro Rossi (trombonist of Italian Instabile Orchestra), Illachime Quartet.

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