'Drang' (from the German, meaning impulse, push, persistence) is the new album by Stromboli (Maple Death Records, Oltrarno Recordings), the project of Bologna-based musician Nico Pasquini. Encompassing pulsating noise, propulsive percussion, as well as moments of ecstatic flight, the album depicts a post-human world of ambiguous sentience, where the distinction between humanity and simulation has become ill-defined and illusory. In this sense, 'Drang' represents a paradoxical vision of rarefied perception and indeterminate forms, vivid energy and unfamiliar resonances, bold revelation and concealed currents.

Across twelve works of experimental electronic composition, Stromboli constructs music of absorbing abstraction, emerging with a confluence of imposing industrial reverberation and otherworldly ambient on the extraordinary opener 'Stamina', before advancing into the immersive, cinematic murk of 'Aechmea' and 'Fumo negli occhi', where the album evokes semblances of esoteric krautrock, if made for the year 2050. Elsewhere the hypnotic fourth world deconstructions of 'Hellblau', 'Tropico caustico' and 'Synonyme' shift into coruscating zones of abrasive impetus, suggesting imperfect traces within technological processes, while 'Antrieb' conveys divergence through a mercurial collage of atmospheric tape loops and raw proto-techno.

Throughout these moments and beyond, 'Drang' is both heavy hitting and enigmatic, an album that strikes an artful balance between elevation and discord, foregrounding original conceptions of noise, industrial and ambient, while incorporating reframed vestiges of dub, acid, drone, and electro. This exceptional sense of counterpoint and contemporary plurality continues into the album's closing stages with 'Exochorda', which explores fragmentary incursions of cavernous, arrhythmic drums and radiant trails of ambient sound, before 'Continuo discontinuo' closes proceedings with a subtle assemblage of gentle tone float, liquid FX, and subterranean distortion, transitioning from a series of implosions to a final beautiful dissolve.

Across a melee of aerial undulations, industrial debris, and autonomous circuitry, a remarkably distinct, cohesive sound materializes on 'Drang'; a strong sense of arrangement and identity that threads these tracks together and marks the album out as one of Stromboli's finest, most arresting works to date. Unravelling compelling dissonance and transcendent flow states out of conflicting elements and impulses, Stromboli creates an environment of astounding pressure and evocative lustre, affirming that in the post-human universe of 'DRANG', there's plenty of life to be found.

Release date: 25th September, 2023.

Drang

Premiere: Stromboli - Antrieb [Random Numbers]

This week Double Heads Variety Hour presents “Enter the Calzoniverse” where DJs Dillon Minacci and Matt Fox present a playlist of whatever songs they recognize from their own timeline. They try to figure out how to return to the Stromboliverse, learn the recipe for immortality, and answer a phone call.

025 Enter The Calzoniverze :: Double Heads Variety Hour

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Baby, You're The One

This week Double Heads Variety Hour presents “Sad Songs & Waltzes" where DJs Matt Fox presents a playlist combining sad songs and waltzes. Jonny Stromboli discusses his divorce, Dillon is pursued by a familiar foe, and Matt attempts to give life advice.

051 Sad Songs & Waltzes :: Double Heads Variety Hour

Per molto, molto tempo
regna il vulcano
Con la natura
in mezzo al mare.

Guarda oltre la sua baia,
Ci osserva mentre viviamo,
Quanto amiamo
Iddu sai cosa commuove i nostri cuori

La lava scorre come una canzone,
A proposito della Sciara del Fuoco
Da anni, sempre nuovo
E sfocia piangente nel mare vicino a Stromboli

Iddu sai cosa commuove i nostri cuori
Iddu sai cosa commuove i nostri cuori
Iddu sai cosa commuove i nostri cuori

Abbiamo questo sogno,
Ti ascolto sempre
E desideriamo che la terra, il mare e il
I cieli azzurri si fondono con i nostri cuori

Iddu sai cosa commuove i nostri cuori
Iddu sai cosa commuove i nostri cuori
Iddu sai cosa commuove i nostri cuori

IDDU Stromboli /written by Michel Ohagen/Salvatore De Luca

Field recording from Vittoria Assembri personal archive recorded in Stromboli, Tokyo, Gafanhão (Portugal).

Radio cut up Harunakomachi 2-1
Field recordings of Jacques Dournes recorded in Sumatra, 1969
Field recording of Robert Maclennan recorded in Papua Nuova Guinea, 1960
John Cage, Jean-Pierre Robert - Ryoanji for solo double bass  
Akio Suzuki - De Koolmees 
Tetuzi Akiyama & Eric Wong - OTOOTO 音音 (Set 2)
Steve Roden ‎– View 
Kazuo Ohno - Butoh - Soundtrack The Electereo
Pauline Oliveros - Lion's eye for Gamelan
Katsuko Itosu (Asadoya Yunta)
Akio Suzuki - Stones

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Wunderscorpion #31 Trois pierres, deux flûtes, un citronnier

And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.

And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?

And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.

And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.

But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.





Mark 10:2-8
King James Bible

take

but one flesh.

And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;

Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the Lord.

And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.

Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the Lord do sanctify him.





Leviticus 21:10-15
King James Bible

for I the Lord do sanctify him.

And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

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