Stolen II

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During the last few years a new and different kind of music started to emerge in my compositions.
Fragments of minimalistic and obscure sounds were progressively breaking through the sonically dense scores and I found myself falling in love with the emptiness and fragility of this sparse music.

Embryo is my first work that digs deeper into this bare space, committing to the silence between the notes and the abstraction of the melodies.

It is my own pilgrimage where the sound becomes still and nothing and everything unite.

written / arranged / produced / engineered / mixed and mastered by 
Vincenzo Lamagna 

Personnel 
Vince: Guitars / Effects / Sound Design 

No synthesisers and/or Virtual Instruments (VST) were armed during the making of this record. 

Cover: Embryo by Yaron Engler [ http://yaronengler.com ]

Embryo

36 choreographed by Jorge Crecis:
Originally commissioned and performed by EDge-The Postgraduate Performance Company of London Contemporary Dance School in 2010/2011
Reworked and performed at the Royal Opera House on the 23,24 and 25 february 2012, London, UK.

Cover picture by Jesus Robisco

More Info at:
http://jorgecrecis.com/


36 PART I

From the album The World At The End Of The World

A Portrait Of Pauline

Funeral In Porta Capuna

The World At The End Of The World

At this our solemn rite
Let all our joys be joined
And from the inmost heart
Let songs of praise resound
Let ancient forms depart
And all be new around

On the 1st of April 2020 English National Ballet was due to premier “Creature” by Akram Khan with an original score by myself.

It goes without saying that due to the current Covid19 pandemic the performances have been postponed and the final period of creation frozen. It is the right and only thing to do, to protect everyone’s life and respect the ones more heavily affected by the situation. But it comes with a sense of regret, for not being able to connect with you through what we have created.

It is with the desire of connection that together with Akram and ENB we have decided to release one of the tracks I composed for the ballet accompanied by a short film by Maxime Dos.

When I landed upon this hymn by St. Thomas Aquinas, it was clear that I found the right words to express both the emotional journey of our “Creature” and my feelings around the present global crisis.

I truly believe that this surreal experience, if accepted with an open heart, could reveal a treasure for our humanity; a chance to shed our old skin and embrace a new way of  living.

I hope that this music and these images may resonate with you and make us feel a little closer.

Be well, be strong and see you on the other side.

Closer And Closer

Original score wrote and produced for KI choreographed by Jose Agudo for Phoenix Dance Theatre.

Written, arranged and produced by Vincenzo Lamagna.
All instruments played by Vince except drums played by Norman Jankowski.

‘The moment that Particle Velocity transcends to become something virtually spiritual is in Jose Agudo’s Ki. Danced by Josh Wille, it is truly one of the most mesmerising, visceral pieces of dance you might ever hope to see’
                                                             Nick Ahad (Yorkshire Post).

Vincenzo Lamagna is a composer, musician, producer and sound designer.

Recognised for the significant impact he made in the world of performing arts, Lamagna earned International acclaim for his work with choreographer Akram Khan, reaching a critical breakthrough in 2016 with his orchestral score for the 21st century adaptation of the romantic ballet ‘Giselle.

Lamagna’s “ominous, gothic” composition was among The Guardian’s “Best of Dance 2016 - Top 10” and earned him a “Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards” nomination in 2017.

At the end of 2022 Lamagna worked closely with award winning director Asif Kapadia on the Cinematic adaption of English National Ballet's Creature.

The "genre-defying" feature film premiered at the 2023 London Film Festivals and featured by "The Guardian" among the best films of the year, received raving reviews, unanimously praising "the work of a collective … existing as a single mass which ebbs and flows in the filmic space”

Vincenzo Lamagna

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