Poetry-Rock: l'incontro tra Gianni Venturi e Giacomo Marighelli. Canzoni viscerali e romantiche, a tratti cantautorali, mescolate a suoni mantrici. Elettronica, campane tibetane e suoni di industrie miscelate alle poesie di Gianni. Nato da serate live svolte nell'improvvisazione, Gianni e Giacomo propongono un sequel musicale dello spettacolo teatrale della compagnia Teatroscienza: Vuoto Pneumatico.

BIO (ENG)
 “Catafalchi del Cyber” leave one perplexed...
The band forms in 2003 during a King Crimson concert at Verona. Ravenoldi & Bertolini propose to give birth to a musical project of clear progressive rock ascendancies to their friends Roversi & Gallio (which already played together with “OPS”). The First psychedelic influences lead the way to an instrumental repertoire. Their live debut takes place at Melara on 2004, with the recording of the bootleg “Attento con quella mietitrebbia Edoardo”. The band’s rather scarce live performances are compensated by a remarkable improvement in composition skills, notably the vocals by Ravenoldi.
Though one cannot deny that there are influences by the big names of prog rock, in Bertolini/Ravenoldi ' compositions there is a sense of looking for original personality, thanks also to the skilled work as producer of Cristiano Roversi (known for his band “Moongarden”, and for many collaborations such as “John Wetton Band”, “Mangala Vallis”, “The Watch”, “Massimo Zamboni” and the newborn trio with Bernardo Lanzetti and Gigi Cavalli Cocchi).
Working at the album the band's line-up changed as well: along with the founders Ravenoldi (vocals, keyboards, electric and acoustic guitar) and Bertolini (bass, theremin and acoustic guitar), The Emperor, l’Imperatore (keys and pedal bass) and the obscure, controversial Ersiker Anaman (drums and percussions).
The ironical and desecrating, scoffing attitude of this band is not always welcomed with warmth by the prog public. Nevertheless, Catafalchi's style is surely imbibed with such aphrodisiac/poison, but at the same time offers us a proof of high quality musicianship and composition. This goes for the lyrics as well: they can be as nonsense as deep and reflecting.
The graphic part, both of the CD and the vinyl, shows precisely this double-headed-ness of the band. There are many collages that remind of DADA, both on the outside and on the inside, and the listener is invited to an interactive approach to the musical object: by a mobile wheel, you can actually modify the album cover, having your say in a multiple choice as interpreters and consumer, or simply as part of the game that Catafalchi del Cyber are inviting you to play!

BIO (ITA)
I “Catafalchi del Cyber” mi lasciano perplesso...
La band si forma nel 2003 durante il concerto dei King Crimson a Verona. Mirco Ravenoldi e Matteo Bertolini propongono di dare vita ad un progetto musicale di chiara ispirazione progressive rock agli amici Cristiano Roversi e Riccardo Gallio (già insieme negli "OPS"). Le prime influenze psichedeliche generano un repertorio strumentale. L...’esordio dal vivo avviene a Melara nel 2004, registrando il bootleg "Attento con quella mietitrebbia Edoardo". La scarsa attività live è però compensata da una notevole maturazione tecnico/compositiva che si manifesta, prima di tutto, con l’integrazione delle linee vocali eseguite dallo stesso Ravenoldi.
Nonostante siano innegabili le influenze dei grandi del rock progressivo, nelle composizioni a quattro mani della coppia Bertolini/Ravenoldi si cerca di rimescolare le carte nel modo più personale e originale possibile, grazie anche ad un esperto lavoro di produzione da parte di Cristiano Roversi (noto nell’ambiente progressive grazie al suo gruppo, i “Moongarden”, nonchè per varie collaborazioni e produzioni come la “John Wetton Band”, “Mangala Vallis”, “The Watch”, “Massimo Zamboni” e il neonato trio al fianco di Bernardo Lanzetti e Gigi Cavalli Cocchi).
È attesa per Marzo 2011 l’uscita del disco di esordio della band: “Benediktus und vobis quoque, catafalcus est tu”, per gli amici “Benediktus”. Con la realizzazione dell’inedito materiale, anche la line-up è stata modificata: nei credits si possono infatti trovare, al fianco dei fondatori Ravenoldi (voce, tastiere, chitarra elettrica e acustica) e Bertolini (basso, theremin e chitarra acustica), l’Imperatore (tastiere e pedali basso) e l’oscuro, nonché controverso, Ersiker Anaman (batteria e percussioni).
L’approccio sicuramente ironico e talvolta dissacrante del gruppo non è sempre accolto calorosamente dal pubblico appassionato di questo genere musicale. Nonostante ciò, lo stile dei “Catafalchi del Cyber” resta imbevuto di tale veleno-afrodisiaco ma allo stesso tempo cerca di proporre musica di qualità tecnica e compositiva di riguardo. Così anche per i testi, che passano dal nonsense a tematiche più riflessive.
La parte grafica riguardante le grafiche e l’artwork (sia del CD digipack che dell’LP) rispecchia precisamente questo approccio. Oltre ai molti collages di matrice DADA, all’esterno e all’interno della custodia, l’utente è invitato ad un approccio interattivo con l’oggetto: attraverso una rotella mobile è infatti possibile modificare il fronte del disco, prendendo così parte ad una scelta interpretativa e di fruizione, o al semplice gioco offertoVi dai vostri amatissimi Catafalchi del Cyber!

In 1979 the English guitarist Robert Fripp made a solo concert tour using a guitar, effects and tape loop system named Frippertronics. The albums Let the Power Fall and God Save the Queen/Under Heavy Manners are fully based on recordings taken from this tour. Beyond their beauty, these pieces are a perfect synthesis of what I’m mostly fond of in music: minimalism, guitar, looping, improvisation, ambient music, electronics, gradual processes. With these albums of mine I would like to make a tribute to Robert Fripp’s art and to give my contribution to live looping practise.

Our music is the solution for those who want to travel without a ticket. 
Our sound is a mix of ambient, noise and postrock.

Our works :
Elite (demo 2006)
Vol. 2 (2008)
Vol. 3 (2010)
Camera Oscura (demo 2014)
Seven Sexy Sunsets (2016)

Cristiano Roversi is an Italian musician, composer and producer. Keyboard and organ player,  bass and Chapman Grand Stick player and, in 1994, founder member of the new progressive band Moongarden, very much a vital entity to this day. Over the years he has explored other musical environments in collaborative projects such as SUBMARINE SILENCE and CAVALLI COCCHI, LANZETTI & ROVERSI as well as numerous solo projects, soundtracks and session/production/teaching work.
Currently writing and playing keyboards for Mangala Vallis and producing Catafalchi Del Cyber, Cristiano has, in recent years, collaborated with many well known and respected names such as Bernardo Lanzetti, Aldo Tagliapietra, John Wetton, David Jackson, Massimo Zamboni, Flaco Biondini, Steve Hackett, Tryptic, Zef Noise & Mike Ill (ex Sweet Lizard Illtet) Silvia Orlandi, Angela Baraldi, Leonora, Roberto Tiranti and many others.....
 

Joshua Banks Mailman is a theorist, analyst, critic, philosopher, performer, technologist, and composer of music, teaching at Columbia University, and previously at NYU, UCSB, U of Alabama, and U of Maryland. A graduate of University of Chicago (AB) and Eastman School of Music (PhD), he researches musical form from flux, temporal dynamic form and is published in Perspectives of New Music, Music Theory Spectrum, TEMPO, Music Analysis, Sonic Studies, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, and others journals and books. He is co-chair of the Analysis of Post-1945 Music interest group of the Society for Music Theory. 
	He developed interactive technologies presented at the 9th Sound and Music Computing Conference (Copenhagen 2012) and International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC) and European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM) (Thesseloniki, Greece). www.joshuabanksmailman.com and http://soundcloud.com/joshua-banks-mailman

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experimental/contemporary label based in Rome /  also organizers and promoters of new music & sound art with the association PROPOSTE SONORE

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