This is a jam-session recorded during my band last rehearsals; the musicians involved were me (at drums) and the keys player.
Quite far from the band standard, an explosive mix of hardcore, industrial, noise, prog-math rock with some pychedelic texture.
Enjoy it and try to dance this tune on!

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Flatterers are found in Malebolge, one very unique area in Dante's Inferno: according to the poet, here are among the worst sinners, those who made very bad use of the human highest virtues. Flatterers' words were meant to provide benefits, prestige, but at the same time they were full of lies, without limits in the way they were told. So Dante condemns them to lie in excrement, moaning and slapping themselves with dirty hands. Not a painful, but a very humiliating punishment.
Dante describes flatterers with words he would never use again in the whole Commedia: he's vulgar, raw, rhythmic, unpleasant sounds, piercing.
So I tried to convey all of this in my piece, and the title is taken from the prostitute Taide's story: it seems she would have used that word - which means "very much!" - in a context where it was simply too much, so not being a moderate person (even if the story is not very clear, meaning that maybe it was not Taide who spoke that word).
My piece is made only with recordings (ambiences and foley) of mine and the way of processing them reflects my immersion in reading the Flatterers section and imagining what the soundtrack for the flatterer could be, when (s)he thinks at who (s)he was in life, what (s)he did, and what present is living in hell, what infinite future awaits.
I suggest to listeners to read (loud) the Flatterers section, in order to understand how Dante wrote about them, understand his deep feeling about them... and then simply close their eyes and immerse themselves in listening to the piece.

Inferno

Ingentes

Flatterers

Recordings made during a quick sunday field recording session at Bus de Refos, a natural cave with flowing water originated by melting snow.

Recording date: March 25th 2018
Recording site: Bus de Refos, Fietta di Paderno, Treviso, Italy

Bus De Refos, Cave, Water Flow, Close Up, Rode NTG3, Various Perspectives (2 - 4)

A little sound design experiment, starting from a drilling sound (my neighbour was using it, I recorded it through the house wall) and ending with...

Drilling

A small collection of thunder sounds, claps and rollings, in a soundscape made of rain, birds and distant traffic.
Recordings made with Sony PCM D-100.

Please note that a 150 Hz low cut filter was set within the recorder settings.

Thunder Rollings & Claps. Light To Medium Rain, Plastic Roof, Birds. Distant Traffic   4

Thunder Rollings & Claps. Light To Medium Rain, Plastic Roof, Birds. Distant Traffic   3

Thunder Rollings & Claps. Light To Medium Rain, Plastic Roof, Birds. Distant Traffic   1

Thunder Rollings & Claps. Light To Medium Rain, Plastic Roof, Birds. Distant Traffic   2

After some attempts to break the ice with a shy donkey, it eventually told me something I could never forget...

Chatting With A Donkey

If a tree falls in space, but there's someone around to hear it scream, does it make a sound?

Marco Furlanetto

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