Francesco Cavaliere - I-A-K Interplanetary-Abyssal-Kite
LP on Xing (XONG collection XX15) out October 2024, order at https://www.soundohm.com/product/iak-interplanetary-abyss and at https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=11858&menu=2
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Xing presents the new LP I-A-K Interplanetary-Abyssal-Kite by Francesco Cavaliere, fifteenth release of XONG collection - artist records. The release is on white vinyl, in a limited and numbered edition of 150 copies supported by the Italian Council. Collector’s edition of 35 copies, each accompanied with a foulard-kite designed by the artist.

I-A-K Interplanetary-Abyssal-Kite is a composition by Francesco Cavaliere, part of his Abyssal Creatures project, based on an ensemble of concave blown glass sculptures that recall transparent creatures far from human representation: beings that inhale sound and exhale resonances. At the same time sound sculptures and music instruments, they have been created by the master glassmakers of Murano. In the words of Francesco Cavaliere, these sounding bodies “function as ambivalent musical instruments (idiophones, such as bells, and aerophones, susceptible to air vibrations) for which the two transparent materials par excellence were used: glass, rigid and crystalline, and sound, an intangible element, which moves and organizes through gaseous paths.”
I-A-K Interplanetary-Abyssal-Kite is a record of abstract electronics and glass music, a crossing of abyssal paths flown over by a cosmic kite that skims, touches and approaches the thresholds, peaks of both visible and invisible places, and returns the sound that inhabits and surrounds them. “It is a sonic binocular with a thousand eyes” that fogs up and never decides to stop on one or more defined shapes: it is always in movement, bouncing between geometries. The different cells that make up its appearance - crystalline greens, greys and only in some cases orange yellows - were cut out and generated using a 2012 Macintosh OSX computer. Before being arranged, each sound ritually passed through three blown glass sculptures named SÀBANAS I, ALIQUOMANÀS and ENQUOMANÀSC, belonging to the Abyssal Dynasty I.

Francesco Cavaliere is a visual artist, writer and sound maker born in Tuscany, Italy, in 1980. He lives and works between Berlin and Turin. His works are capable of enlivening his listeners' inner states through a polymorphic activity that combines writing, sound, voice, drawing, sculpture, which together stimulate the imagination, undertaking long journeys crossed by ephemeral presences. He writes sound stories and music based on particles of sound, noise and language, often integrated with installation and scenographic elements or live performance, showing a particular taste for the most diverse forms of exoticism. Over the years he has developed a veritable dictionary to catalogue the metamorphic beings that inhabit his own abstract fantasy universe: hybrids of objects, animals, plants, planets, trails, cosmic objects and physical and perceptual phenomena generated by glass, minerals and voices, recorded and performed with analog technologies. "I am a talking scribe ... my voice is a cloud, my pen hisses."
Along 2023-2024 he developed Corpi Abissali / Abyssal Creatures, a project with several occasions of activation between sculpture, performance, sound and text, curated and produced by Xing, supported by the Italian Council.
https://cavalierecircles.wixsite.com/francesco-cavaliere   www.instagram.com/cavaliere.circles7 www.francescocavaliere.bandcamp.com
soundcloud.com/f-cavaliere

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Composition and sounds F. Cavaliere, Recorded at Raum Bologna with P. Savignano, Master G. Ielasi, Cover image F. Cavaliere, Image treatment M. Casella, Artwork Xing, Press handle with care

I-A-K

XX15: Francesco Cavaliere - I-A-K Interplanetary-Abyssal-Kite - excerpt side B 2

Silvia Costa/Claudio Rocchetti - KEYHOLE MOUTH
LP on Xing (XONG collection XX17) out March 2025, order at https://www.soundohm.com/product/keyhole-mouth and at https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=11914&menu=2
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Xing presents the new LP Keyhole Mouth by Silvia Costa and Claudio Rocchetti, seventeenth release of XONG collection - artist records.

Keyhole Mouth is the second collaboration, after Midnight Snack, between performer Silvia Costa and musician Claudio Rocchetti. Surrounded by objects and materials of different origins found by chance and arranged like sets, triggers for extemporaneous and fugitive narratives, Silvia Costa acted in the solitude and modesty of locked rooms, creating a series of unseen gestures and of which only a sonic memory remains. Barely audible excerpts of words, thoughts jotted down on a mental page, already forgotten and confused, mingle with the sound trails of actions, movements, steps, in a material and affective relationship with the most common objects.
A lighter, a rock, a newspaper. A chair, a pair of shoes, scissors.
Still lifes or enigmas to be deciphered. Claudio Rocchetti's elaboration of these fragile and wild sounds gave rise to a concrete music, marked by compositional strategies that are based on the use of various sounds, vocalized, shouted, breathed, beaten, rubbed and recorded. Frequencies and dust from another world, to be heard without being heard, to be spied with the ears instead of the eyes, through the keyhole, without disturbing. This Keyhole is the crack, the mouth from which the sound comes. It is like a region of the space-time, isolated from the rest of the universe, that attracts you towards a dark and obscure centre where little is seen, much is imagined in listening.

Silvia Costa is an Italian artist, director and performer. Since 2007 she's developed a visual and poetic theater nourished by a deep reflection on images. Alternating roles as author, director, performer or set designer, this protean artist crosses different aesthetic fields in a personal exploration of Theatre. She has created theatre works, performances, installations and multimedia projects. Recent projects have definitely expanded to the musical and operatic world with important collaborations. In 2022 she was awarded the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.
www.silvia-costa.com

Claudio Rocchetti is a musician and composer whose research is mainly focused around concrete pastiches as the result of hardware live manipulation, turntable feedbacks as well as various recorded sources and objects. The work of Claudio Rocchetti is a deep plunge into thick sound, investigating its innermost workings. Using a variety of devices such as turntables, audio cassettes, samplers, radios, and microphones, often incorporating other objects and traditional instruments, Rocchetti builds compelling structures that employ sound as sheer matter, mass, and impact. The tarry, mesmerizing hues that characterize his ‘music objects’ are grounded in layers of sound detritus. From techno rhythms to slow melodies, edgy constructions to samples of choirs and strings, Rocchetti builds layered structures of elusive elements whose sources are often hidden, and enacts a mirror play which may cause dizziness.
www.claudiorocchetti.com

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Concrete sounds and voice S. Costa; Sound processing, electronics and editing C. Rocchetti; Recorded by D. Hart at PULP ARTS; Master G. Ielasi; Cover photo by S. Costa; Artwork by Xing; Printed by handle with care.
Released in an edition of 150 copies including collector's edition of 25 copies accompanied by a keyhole of European and North American manufacture, from the 17th century onwards, with the application of an original pen on canvas drawing by S. Costa.

KEYHOLE MOUTH

XX17: Silvia Costa/Claudio Rocchetti - KEYHOLE MOUTH - Set 4 - excerpt side B

XX17: Silvia Costa/Claudio Rocchetti - KEYHOLE MOUTH - Set 2 - excerpt side A 2

XX17: Silvia Costa/Claudio Rocchetti - KEYHOLE MOUTH - Set 1 - excerpt side A 1

Luca Trevisani - AMAZOOM
LP on Xing (XONG collection XX16) out January 2025, order at https://www.soundohm.com/product/amazoom-luca-trevisani and at https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=11913&menu=2
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Xing presents the first LP by Luca Trevisani, AMAZOOM, sixteenth release of XONG collection - artist records. The release is on white vinyl, in a limited and numbered edition of 150 copies, including a collector's edition of 30 copies, each accompanied with an artist's multiple: a sculpture inspired by the seeds of Parartocarpus venenosa from the Amazon jungle, used by monkeys as combs and now objects to be mounted on the turntable while listening. The edition contains a text/score by Luca Trevisani.

AMAZOOM proposes to the listener two hypotheses of landscape reincarnation, two translations, two strict, entropic protocols of imagination. 
“What can't be expressed in color in the dark, in the jungle night becomes a concert. The decibel race in the blackness of the Amazon forest leaves no escape: without earplugs, sleeping is decidedly impossible. It’s a sonic vertigo, a primordial voice that envelops and captivates. The only antidote that I could think of, partly to try to resist despair, but perhaps even more to immerse myself in the song of that teeming life, was to try to describe its voices, its tones, its nuances. So, I turned on my computer and I tried to transcribe every sound that passed through me, becoming a stenographer in service of that excessive concert.”  For this record Trevisani performed his text score, creating hundreds of scattered sounds, overlapping and coexisting, until they jammed into a jungle for a screen (Side A). Then, linking each to a key on his PC keyboard, he typed the text -or rather, he played it - turning his laptop into an improbable but perfectly exact musical instrument, a ramshackle noise machine for a domestic wild nature taking shape around, within, and above his desk: keyboard forest (Side B).

Luca Trevisani is a multidisciplinary artist whose works have been exhibited in museums and institutions throughout the world. In addition to awards and shows in major art centres and museums, he has published several books, one record, and directed the science-fiction documentary film Glaucocamaleo (2012). He has written texts and essays on the works of other artists. He teaches at IUAV in Venice, at the Free University of Bolzano, and at NABA in Milan. His research ranges between sculpture and video, and crosses borderline disciplines such as performing arts, graphics, design, experimental cinema and architecture, in a perpetual magnetic and mutant condition. In his works the historical characteristics of sculpture are questioned or even subverted, in an incessant investigation of matter and its narratives. Trevisani’s research is that of an explorer: a freethinker who studies the most diverse and eclectic forms of plastic language with curiosity – but also with detachment – acting on them from the inside although never aspiring to possess them definitively, instead seeking to reveal (and, if possible, to modify) their microphysics. Above all, conserving absolute passion for the practical and social utility of his work and for the great questions that it cultivates: perhaps the real significance of someone who conducts artistic research with authority.
www.lucatrevisani.eu 
http://lucatrevisanipictures.com

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Composition and sounds by Luca Trevisani, Mixed by Pasquale Savignano, Mastered by Riccardo Mazza, Cover image by Luca Trevisani, Artwork by Xing, Printed by handle with care Berlin.
Thanks to Stella Succi, Lorenzo Dal Ri, Attila Faravelli, Studio Folder, Gelateria Sogni di Ghiaccio. Cat.n° XONG collection XX16 (2025), label Xing.

XX16: Luca Trevisani - AMAZOOM - giungla da schermo - excerpt side A

XX16: Luca Trevisani - AMAZOOM - foresta da tastiera - excerpt side B

Elvin Brandhi - OWsT
LP on Xing (XONG collection XX18) out April 2025, order at https://www.soundohm.com/product/owst-brandhi-lp and at https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12211&menu=0
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Xing presents the new LP OWsT by Elvin Brandhi, eighteenth release of XONG collection - artist records. The release is on white vinyl, in a limited and numbered edition of 150 copies, including a collector's edition of 20 copies, each featuring bespoke talismans, painted by the artist in squid ink, to be worn as patches or kept safe somewhere to ward off misanthropists.

OWsT is a vociferous attempt to Shout The Self Out. Elvin Brandhi, artist and poet propelled by constant nomadic rupture in both art and life, screams her mind to explore the urgent contradictions of self and world, of language and meaning, relentlessly unlearning at the edge of words. In OWsT she extrudes her limbic dissidence keeping a raw tension through chaos, where the fumbling find its stratum of empowerment and can become more than its forlorn wondering:

"LanGuAGE! ContinuES to BE a FRantic FOCUS WHich CAN ONLY BenefIT from Internal ASSAULT. 
I try to OUT all of the words inside the HEAD. 
The struggle to articulate necessitates violence, bursts of inclination, gestures of intent that supersedes the capacity to express coherently. 
OWsT as a pretext for the form to disgorge, comfort zone extinguished awe against a lore. 
I am not I am KNOT. JOWST THE OWST OUT  OWST THE CELL”F OWT!"

OWsT originates from a live recording session at Raum, Xing’s space in Bologna. Recorded on tape and re-manipulated by the artist several times, more than a transcription of the expulsion process (literally ‘oust’, poetically and phonetically ‘owst’) the album is "a retrospective spell where tensions and indecisions, resistances, deviations and relapses constitute the process of the archaeologist attempting to retrieve from sight the mangled contents of what poured out.” Listening to Elvin Brandhi’s music can offer a chaotic and overwhelming experience.

Elvin Brandhi (born Freya Edmondes) is an improvising lyricist, producer and sound artist, originally from Bridgend in Wales, but a citizen of the world, moving between Vienna and Kampala, Berlin, Cairo, Dakkar, Marseille and Newcastle. She had a childhood immersed in music every day, and studied painting and drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Her sound production develops on distorted bases that act as an unstable platform on which she sings and performs her improvised stream of consciousness lyrical trips. Deep furious or nonsense, her spoken word lies on explosive and aberrant beats from field recordings, tape, vinyl, instrument and voice. Since 2013 she has played and collaborated with many improvisers. At each stop of her nomadic journey she collaborates with local artists. She has participated in international festivals. Among her stable collaborations are the low-fi noise pop duo Yeah You with her father Gustav Thomas, the duo BAHK with Daniel Blumberg, the INSIN duo with Bashar Suleiman, the project Avril Spleen with Joseph Jadame, the duo Pollution Opera with Nadah El Shazly, and Bad@Maths. She released the LPs Shelf Life (C.A.N.V.A.S), Villaelvin (Hakuna Kulala), Elvin Brandhi (Krai), and OWsT (Xing/Xong collection). In 2017 she was awarded the PRS Oram Award for Innovative Musicians, with a production commission at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. She was also part of SHAPE platform 2020.
soundcloud.com/elvin-brandhi-1   elvinbrandhi.bandcamp.com

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sound, composition and performance by Elvin Brandhi; elaboration, re-composition from tape recordings and mix by Elvin Brandhi;
live session at Raum (Bologna, 2022) recorded by Pasquale Savignano, Tobia Bandini, mix Pasquale Savignano; master Riccardo Mazza; artwork Xing; printed by handle with care Berlin; 45 rpm.

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