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Co-released with We Are Time
Out July 25th, 2025. Vinyl & Digital
Distributed by Wordandsound (EU/ROW) and Revolver (North & South America)

“Bitter Sweet, Sweet Bitter initiates the most natural union of Colussi’s immaculate craft and loquacious lyrics to date, yielding a set of sleazy-listening devotionals that don’t so much ramble as elegantly unfurl.”
-- Bandcamp Album Of The Day

“Music to imagine yourself slow-dancing to as the ship sinks”
-- Aquarium Drunkard

Known on both sides of the Atlantic for his baroque, poetic approach to songwriting, Fortunato Durutti Marinetti returns with Bitter Sweet, Sweet Bitter—his most sweeping, absurd, and emotionally acute statement to date. Calling it Poetic Jazz Rock—at once a private joke and an honest descriptor—the Toronto-via-Turin cantautore (Italian for singer-songwriter) delivers an album of maximalist grace, gilded sorrow, and lyrical intensity.

The title, Bitter Sweet, Sweet Bitter, nods to Anne Carson’s Eros: The Bittersweet, a book that launches a thousand ideas into the air: the impossibility of translation, the contradictions at the heart of desire, and the fluid spectrum between seeming opposites. That duality animates this album—from its two-headed dog cover art to its songs that twirl between beauty and grotesquerie, euphoria and dread.

While his previous album, Eight Waves In Search Of An Ocean, sought sonic hybridity, Bitter Sweet, Sweet Bitter marks Marinetti’s dive into excess. Written with the intent to push his songwriting to absurdist extremes, the album features long, chorus-less compositions swirling in 6/8 time, packed with words, brass, and string flourishes. Recorded live with a nimble six-piece band in a cramped Toronto attic studio, the record captures raw performances—often tracked in first or second takes—and overlays them with meticulous arrangements.

Inspired by the iconoclasts—Annette Peacock, Rickie Lee Jones, Donald Byrd, Brigitte Fontaine, Fabrizio De André—Marinetti follows his craft wherever it leads. There are echoes of Destroyer and Tindersticks here, but also something singularly his: Maximally Graceful Funky Eloquence, as he puts it.

The songs on Bitter Sweet, Sweet Bitter grapple with empathy, ego, surveillance, spiritual exhaustion, and love in its various shades of delusion. Lead single “Full of Fire” opens the album with an explosive ode to romantic recklessness in the tradition of Thelma & Louise. Elsewhere, “Beware” offers bitter advice for bitter times, “Call Me the Author” references Joan Didion by way of Brigitte Fontaine, and “My Funeral” imagines a self-delivered eulogy set to sombre jazz-noir. The instrumental themes (“Theme I” and “Theme II”) give the band room to stretch, underscoring the record’s musical vitality.

The album features contributions from a revolving cast of heavy-hitters, including New Chance (co-vocals on “Beware”) and Jay Arner (clavinet on “Beware”), who also mixed the entire record. A longtime friend and collaborator of Colussi’s, Arner (of Energy Slime, also on We Are Time) brings a deep familiarity to this fourth recorded collaboration, giving Bitter Sweet, Sweet Bitter its surreal, shimmering final polish.

Recorded, produced and mixed at Dining Room Sound, Toronto

Louie Short -- Recording & Mixing (A Perfect Pair) 
Jay Arner -- Mixing & Post-Production  
Heather Kirby at Dreamland -- Mastering

Daniel Colussi -- Vocals & Guitar
Victoria Cheong -- Vocals (Beware) 
Brandon Gibson De Groote -- Violins, Viola & String Arrangements 
Alex Fournier -- Bass 
Alex Hamlyn -- Saxophone 
Stefan Hegerat -- Drums 
Blake Howard -- Percussion 
John Jowett -- Euphonium & Trombone 
Tara Kannangara -- Trumpet 
Eliza Niemi -- Cello (Do You Ever Think?) 
Luan Phung -- Lead Guitar 
Chris Pruden -- Piano, Synth, Rhodes 
Maddee Ritter -- Vocals (A Perfect Pair)
Jay Arner -- Clarinet (Beware)

[QUI018-WAT018] Fortunato Durutti Marinetti - Bitter Sweet, Sweet Bitter PREVIEW

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Pre-order: 13th August 2025
Release date: 22nd August 2025

Maps and Diagrams' latest release, Clearwater, is a musical collage assembled from various sound sources and loops, with minimal composition.

The sound is more experimental, loop-focused & abstract with a theme of subtle shifts and decaying repetitions.

"Clearwater" is fractured when compared to maps and diagrams' previous releases with a conscious emphasis on eroded melodic structures.

Since releasing a track on the RND_0.34873349921 compilation on the Pause_2 label in 2001, Maps and Diagrams has released over 45 albums as a solo artist or as part of collaboration projects, he has appeared on many well-respected labels, such as; False Industries, Static Caravan, Quiet Details, Nomadic Kids Republic, Fluid Audio, Time Released Sound, Chemical Tapes, Smallfish, Toytronic, Expanding Records and both Moamoo and Symbolic Interaction in Japan – to name but a few. Tim's music also appeared several times on the world-famous John Peel radio show.

Tim runs the Handstitched* label in the UK which specialises in bespoke, handmade packaging for the more electro-acoustic and drone-like elements of sound, alongside other like-minded artists. He is involved in audio-visual commissions, including art gallery installations and music videos for a global clothing brand.

As well as Maps and Diagrams, Tim also records music under the Atlantis name and works in collaboration with Genoveva Kachurkova as Bluhm, with Charles Sage as Hessien, alongside Rob Lyon as Somme and with Arbee under the name Emba. 

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Maps and Diagrams - Aquatic Plants - Taken from "Clearwater" Album

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Release date: 22nd August 2025

“New Context” can give altered meaning to familiar spaces. The fields and streets you know have changed; nothing is fixed. The music is quiet night music, combinations of environmental sounds and sparse arrangements to sit and listen to. It was all made this year with that in mind. A new way of seeing things.

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Corey Mastrangelo - quiet fields - Taken from "new context" Album

Live recorded track, made by playing in sequence two pre-recorded 4-tracks tapes.
Second tape loop is a personal version of the track "EL ÚNICO" by CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso.
Reverbs, echoes effects and live dubbing technique.

VIDEO:https://youtu.be/DJnACJd3aOw?si=MGJBLAnQA-HdthN6
REEL: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOMEUXECNwJ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Bandcamp: https://maremmario.bandcamp.com/track/aq13-live-session

Enjoy :)

AQ13 live session

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Pre-order: 10th September 2025
Release date: 19th September 2025

This is a short story of a young man who sends prayers to the Wise Moon above. These aren't real prayers but deep inner confessions about hopes, fears, unspoken dreams and secret wishes for a better future for himself and for his loved one.

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Fallen - Inner Sky Lullaby - Taken from "Secret Prayers to the Wise Dormant Moon" Album

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Release date: 19th September 2025

Under gray skies.

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Submersion - Aqueous, Reticular, Fog - Taken from "Gray" Album

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Release date: 19th September 2025

Pietro and David have been fellow admirers of each other's work for years. This transatlantic collaboration started when Pietro sent David a track (Cold Lullaby) for consideration for a group album project. However, David decided to try a rework of the track, and Suspended Animation was born.

The project evolved over the next few months, with Pietro sending David tracks and David doing reworks with no added instrumentation or sounds. The original tracks Pietro provided were stretched and otherwise morphed into longer, drone-based compositions. The resulting album is an effective marriage of each artist’s style: soothing and calm, yet with a slightly anxious undertone throughout.

The album title reflects times when we seem to go into hibernation, waiting for the warmth of the sun to return and bring hope back into our lives.

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Pietro Zollo & d york - cold-lullaby - Taken from "Suspended Animation" Album

Live session made at RESEDE workshop after filming the video where they let me build the wooden tape loop support and the tape loop itself.
I have first recorded the four tracks on the tape using an Electron model: samples, then tuned the tape velocity and dubbed it live.

Live session video: https://youtu.be/TkTucciepuQ?si=-atCiOgN6DGhbXLD
maremmario X RESEDE video: https://youtu.be/pwbCvQlXXik?si=L7jGsxqJi39dWMZ8
REEL: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DObWjOwjtgg/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Bandcamp: https://maremmario.bandcamp.com/track/maremmario-x-resede-live-session

Enjoy :)

maremmario X RESEDE live session

"Strawberry Fields Forever" by The Beatles reinterpretation + Elisa's voice and mine (fortunately at very low level).
4-track cassette tape loop, dubbing it live.

Full Video: https://youtu.be/PDrlTf0XxZs
Track's Bandcamp:
REEL: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPCB8ZyDpQ2/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Enjoy :)

Strawberry Fields Forever _ Tape Loop

Ambient electronic music propject based on 4-tracks cassette tape loops and live dubbing.

Strawberry Fields Forever _ Tape Loop

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