Andrea Belfi live at Radialsystem on 16 April, 2016.

Enoy this great souvenir of Andrea Belfi's visit to the UM:LAUT stage. Back in April 2016 he opened two sold-out evenings with a solo show before supporting Nils Frahm and his Nonkeen band for their release tour kick-off at Radialsystem V. 

Special thanks to Andrea for the great performances, and for mixing and mastering this tune. And cheers to Carlo Grippa for the amazing sound and the recordings.
 
Recorded at Radialsystem, Berlin.
Published with permission of the artist.
Photo: Markus Werner

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Andrea Belfi @ UM:LAUT - Live Snippet

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Andrea Belfi, born in 1979 in Verona, is a composer, drummer, and electronic musician in the fields of minimal, post-classical, new, and experimental music, as well as improvisation, theater, and performance.

His distinctive sound emerges from the dynamic relationship between his fluid drumming and complex electronic soundscapes, where the manipulation of time induces a sense of stillness within progression, thus rendering it ritualistic. The foundation of his music is built on perpetually shifting rhythmic and melodic arrangements that expand into spatialized orchestral sound scenarios.

His discography spans a broad range of solo and collaborative works. He released more than ten solo albums, including ‘Natura Morta’ (2014), ‘Ore’ (2016) and ‘Eternally Frozen’ (2023). He recorded drums for Jóhann Jóhannsson, Ben Frost, David Grubbs and IC3PEAK, amongst many others.

Andrea Belfi's works have been showcased internationally at numerous festivals and venues, such as Philharmonie de Paris, Barbican Centre, Unsound, CTM, Montreux Jazz, The Greek Theatre, Umbria Jazz and Paradiso, inter alia. In addition to his solo performances, he has toured extensively with artists such as Thom Yorke, serving as a live opening act during his world tour, Mike Watt, Matana Roberts, Marta Salogni, Nils Frahm, Carla Bozulich, Circuit des Yeux and others.

Belfi has collaborated with artists from various disciplines: He composed music for directors, such as Ulrich Rasche, Silvia Costa and Nazanin Noori, as well as fine artists such as Angela Bulloch, Monica Bonvicini, Tomás Saraceno and Rosa Barba.

UM:LAUT is a live platform for artists and labels availing themselves of various musical traditions, realising ambitious and unique projects regardless of genre boundaries. The series' focus lies on the experimental range between classical and electronic instrumentation, composition and improvisation, club and concert hall. Considering itself an open stage for cooperations between artists of different disciplines, UM:LAUT aims to present music in dialogue with other art forms – music giving impulses to film, video, photography, installation, dance and performance.

Be forwarned: I'm just a lazy lousy bedroom dj with no time to practice, so my sets sound as if some children were trying to wear their parents' clothes, pretending to be one of them ;)