Name: v.47.46 by Mulo Muto
Duration: 5 min 38 s
Description: Extract from an improvised session recorded at Nowhere Studio, Zurich, 15.02.17; mastered at Folklor Studio, Zurich, 21.02.17.

Wonderfully deep and immersive -- makes me feel like I am drowning or floating, I'm not sure which -- magnificient!

Sandra Eberle-violino,flauto e voce
Consuelo Garbani-percussioni e voce
Eleonore Gianetta-danze,coreografie e voce
Paolo Tomamichel-liuto,bouzuky,voce
tomamichelpao@gmail.com


GREENSLEEVES * Ai Vis Lo Lop*

Sandra Eberle-violino,flauto e voce
Consuelo Garbani-percussioni e voce
Eleonore Gianetta-danze,coreografie e voce
Paolo Tomamichel-liuto,bouzuky,voce

tomamichelpao@gmail.com


Rolandskvadet

This entire track is a live jam, as streamed today on mixlr.com/colin-benders

tune in for more of this!

April 16th - Glitchy Saturday Jam (FT Maarten Vos)

Cassette (Ltd) : materialabel.bandcamp.com/album/ep-2

Responses:

• Paul Lemos (Controlled Bleeding) : « I like the brutality of Manunkind's sound. Sometimes I want to hear the clean rhythms shine through, since the distortion smothers everything else...But this is heavy shit!!! No doubt, fans of heavy industrial will dig Manunkind.»

• Gary Mundy (Ramleh) : «I enjoyed it a lot. I like the drones at the start of the first track that then bludgeon into Throbbing Gristle "Discipline" style industrial music. The second track was my favourite. The kind of dark, moody electronics I love. Some great piercing noise in there too. The third again started one way and then went another. Almost turning into the first Suicide album.»

All songs written by Manunkind (Gin & Dee)
Lyrics - Gin & Dee

Mixed and mastered by Bobo 

released January 15, 2016

The Grave For 500.000 Soldiers

Cassette (Ltd) : materialabel.bandcamp.com/album/ep-2

Responses:

• Paul Lemos (Controlled Bleeding) : « I like the brutality of Manunkind's sound. Sometimes I want to hear the clean rhythms shine through, since the distortion smothers everything else...But this is heavy shit!!! No doubt, fans of heavy industrial will dig Manunkind.»

• Gary Mundy (Ramleh) : «I enjoyed it a lot. I like the drones at the start of the first track that then bludgeon into Throbbing Gristle "Discipline" style industrial music. The second track was my favourite. The kind of dark, moody electronics I love. Some great piercing noise in there too. The third again started one way and then went another. Almost turning into the first Suicide album.»

All songs written by Manunkind (Gin & Dee)
Lyrics - Gin & Dee

Mixed and mastered by Bobo

released January 15, 2016

Acéphale

Andrea Gastaldello (Mingle) and Joel Gilardini (The Land Of The Snow) "Vuoto / Leere" (Cassette, Luce Sia–019)
Released October 11, 2016
White C60 cassette, limited to 60 copies. (Same tracklist on both sides). 

This 5 tracks album is inspired by the loneliness and the void of the Great War on the Italian-Austrian mountain front.

Joel Gilardini (The Land Of The Snow): Touh Guitars U8 & Loops
Andrea Gastaldello (Mingle): Electronics & Treatments

Recorded and mixed between Mingle's Tower Studio (Italy) and Joel's Nowhere Studio (Switzerland).

Mastered by Eraldo Bernocchi.

Mingle & The Land Of The Snow  "Prendere D'Assalto Il Cielo / Der Himmel Im Sturm Nehmen"

10 Runaljod

Here is my tongue-in-cheek portrayal of what it might have sounded like if Frankenstein were to have jammed with a psychedelic backing band exhibiting mild shamanic tendencies.

The "mad organ" fragments that open and close the track represent an at-best partially successful attempt to improvise on a keyboard with zero respect for both tonal centres and scales.  The middle part of the piece is my first attempt at (graphically) composing a score prior to commencing the recording of any sounds.    

Influences on this track: Arata Didge's magnificently expressive didgeridoo playing, myriad composers who have utilised graphical scores (e.g. Cornelius Cardew and Cat Hope), mad organ music in B-grade 1960s and 1970s horror films, the amazing monophonic keyboard improvisations on Side 1 of Maurizio Bianchi's "Technology 1" tape, John Coltrane's "Ascension" LP, and classic break-all-musical-rules Krautrockers such as Limbus 4 ("Mandalas" LP), Amon Düül II ("Phallus Dei" LP), Guru Guru ("UFO" LP) & Tangerine Dream ("Electronic Meditation" LP).

Equipment used: Korg MS10 and Roland JX-03 synthesizers, steel-string acoustic guitar, voice, recorder, effects pedals.

Frankenstein's Psychedelic Jam Has Risen from the Grave

Extract from an improvised session recorded at Nowhere Studio, Zurich, 15.02.17; mastered at Folklor Studio, Zurich, 21.02.17.

v.47.46

I reflect often on the evanescence of life. The Tibetan Buddhist practice of making and then destroying sand mandalas is one of the most powerful metaphors for such evanescence. These sand mandalas give both the inspiration for, and the title to, the present track.

A quite separate influence on this track is my love of pipe-organ music. Organ pieces by Bach and Messiaen are never far from my ears. Both have influenced the (cheap Casio organ preset sounds) running through this track: Bach through his divine counterpoint, and Messiaen through the extremely interesting and unusual sonic colours he gets from exquisitely unfamiliar chords. Paul Hindemith's organ sonatas were also of influence.

I am aware of the irony that the music of geniuses such as Bach and Messiaen will endure, while my my own feeble efforts will evanesce.

This track was prepared for a radio show broadcast by Horridus/Devilsclub (see @devilsclub) on March 10 2017, for his guest presentation of the “Mid Valley Mutations” show (see midvalleymutations.com/) on KMUZ Community Radio in the USA (see www.kmuz.org/). I express my sincere thanks to Horridus for this opportunity.

Sound sources: Dried Jerusalem artichoke stalk tapping on my laptop computer, Korg MS-10 synthesizer, Roland JX-03 synthesizer, Casio CTK-4200 keyboard, voice, effects pedals.

Evanesce the Sonic Sand Mandala: from earsheltering.free.fr/earsheltering088.html

Track from the coming UNCODIFIED - Hyperinflation album. Out 1/5/17.

UNCODIFIED - Cipher Stroke

MULO MUTO is a two-headed monster created and (un)directed by Joel Gilardini (treated guitars, loops, synths, noises) and Attila Folklor (synths, noises, loops, percussions). 
MULO MUTO is a ritual trip inside your worst nightmares and an unpredictable mix of doomed noises.
Beware the monsters, beware yourself!

Biography

Mulo Muto (MM) was created by two passioned music makers who originally met in Zurich (Switzerland) in 2012. Both originally come from the Italian speaking part of the country but followed very different musical paths and only met after leaving their home region. 
Joel Gilardini is a guitar player and a sound researcher. Before starting MM he created The Land Of The Snow (avantgarde metal), played with Lunatic Fringe (fusion crossover) and started to open as a solo‐performer for Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin (ECM) on regular basis at Exil (a well-known Zurich’s club).
Attila Folklor followed other paths starting with punk and death metal bands until he founded Insomnia Isterica (grindcore), which is his most active band, and MeVdA (experimental drone noise). He also runs L’è Tütt Folklor Records since 2003, a DIY label mainly focused on grindcore and noise. 
The need to experiment with sounds and noises is what bounded the two members; they just sat down in a squat’s rehearsal room in Zurich and started to play together. 
In their first year of activity (May 2013 - May 2014) MM used the basic approach of drums + guitars to create the base of their sound which took a lot of inspiration from doom metal. Everything was enriched by the use of sounds and noises created by analogue synths and loop layers and occasionally by the use of treated vocals. With this set-up MM played four gigs with bands like Mombu (IT), Zolle (IT), Free Nelson Mandoomjazz (UK) and others and released their first tape “Distorted Rituals” on Attila’s label. 
After this first year of activity, MM decided to leave the metal-driven base of their sound to concentrate on an electronic research and released another C90 tape using their alter egos MeVdA and Joel Gilardini to explore the transition.
At the end of 2014 the promo CD-r “Gutting Pieces” was self-released as a free give-away to friends and fellow music makers. Old Bicycle Records later released a split tape with B E T A (Italy). At the same time, MM started to play live with the new set-up. 2015 saw the release of “Eclipse And Equinox” (C60) and “Live VIII & V” (C90) on L’è Tütt Folklor Records. “Eterna Caduta” (C60) was the first release of 2016 and was followed by a split tape with Italian legend Sshe Retina Stimulants released by Luce Sia.
MM has one and only goal: sonic exploration. It may sound naïve and pretentious, but even Attila and Joel have sometimes issues describing and tagging their sound in two or three words. To put it simply, MM is a sort of chimera that speaks the languages of noise, ambient and drone mixed with some heavy riffs and ritual elements.

(December 2016)

Releases

-Split tape with Sshe Retina Stimulants, “Tutti I Colori Del Buio”, C60 tape, Luce Sia, 2016
-"Eterna Caduta", C60 tape, L’è Tütt Folklor Records, 2016
-“Live VIII & V”, C90 tape, L’è Tütt Folklor Records, 2015
-“Eclipse & Equinox”, C60 tape, L’è Tütt Folklor Records, 2015
-Split C60 tape with B E T A (Italy), "The Examination", C60 tape, Old Bicycle Records, 2014
-"Gutting Pieces", promo CD-r, self released, 2014
-MeVdA vs. Joel Gilardini, “Mulo vs. Muto”, C90 tape, L’è Tütt Folklor Records, 2014
-"Distorted Rituals", C90 tape, L'è Tütt Folklor Records, 2013

Upcoming releases:

-Splits and collaborations (to be revealed)
-Solo works

Links and contacts

mulomuto@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/MuloMuto
https://soundcloud.com/mulo-muto
mulomuto.bandcamp.com

Associated bands and projects

https://soundcloud.com/jgilardini-music
http://thelandofthesnow.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/mevda
https://www.facebook.com/insomniaisterica
http://folklorrecords.bandcamp.com

v.47.46

Mulo Muto

Recent comments

David M. Paganin

Related tracks