Invernomuto - VERNASCACADABRA
LP on Xing (XONG collection XX08) out March 2023, order at https://www.soundohm.com/product/vernascacadabra-lp-white
and at https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=11863&menu=2
Collector's edition available at https://www.soundohm.com/product/vernascacadabra-lp-art-ed and at https://shop.flash---art.it/products/invernomuto-vernascacadabra-2-edizione-variazione-cromatica

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Xing presents the new LP VERNASCACADABRA by Invernomuto, eighth release of XONG collection - artist records. The release is on white vinyl, in a limited numbered edition of 150 copies. The collector's edition consists of 10 copies, each accompanied by a jacquard blanket, with the original picture also used for the record cover.

VERNASCACADABRA is a series of compositions for ocarina as a part of an artistic journey through the history of music routes that Invernomuto has been carrying out for years, starting from the sound and the imagery it generates. The ocarina is a wind instrument made of terracotta, whose name derives from its shape, which resembles a small headless goose ('oca' in Italian). It is claimed that the instrument was invented in Budrio, near Bologna, around the mid-19th century, and then it spread to many geographic areas, such as Austria, Korea, Japan, Peru and Hungary. Aside from its use in traditional and folk music, the ocarina appears in some famous soundtracks by Ennio Morricone, in compositions by György Ligeti, in Capitan Harlock (a 1970s Japanese anime series), in music by Duran Duran, and in the videogame The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. VERNASCACADABRA, whose title combines a magical formula with the name of the ancient village from which the two artists come, intertwines vernacular and pop culture starting from the extremely simple sounds of the ocarinas recomposed in a catalog of raw dance pieces. VERNASCACADABRA opens up a heterodox vocabulary that draws from presumed and imagined medieval repertoires, blurred memories of ritual flutes and - more openly - declines the UK drill as a sharp existential metaphor.

Xong is the name of the new collection produced by Xing, a vinyl-only record label of works by both Italian and international personalities linked to the variegated worlds of live performativity. The collection explores a geography of artists who present this sonic field as a platform to expand their staged worlds. "The space of the record" is given focus and amplifies their poetics as both a sonic and physical phenomenon. Xong is a unique project that draws out divergent understandings of the performative and live arts, beyond genre and intersecting between different practices. Xong collects a series of original creations that constitute an expanded program. Each physical record is a numbered edition on white vinyl hosting the solidification of the gesture. A wave upon wave, a series of "Music-Non-Music" to actualize both the artists and listeners imagination.

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Ocarine di Budrio Do 5a, Sol 4a, Do 3a, Sol 2a, Do 1a, Swords sounds CC BY-ND Freesound.org, Vocal samples from Ridiculous by WorkRate, Written and performed by ST while recovering from stab injuries on both hands, Commissioned for Oplà. Performing Activities, Xing/Arte Fiera 2021, Recorded between November and December 2021 at Invernomuto HQ in Milan, Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi, Cover Invernomuto - The Ocarina of Time, 2020, courtesy of the artists and Pinksummer, Genova, Photo Giulio Boem, Artwork by Xing, Printed by handle with care Berlin, Format vinyl (white), Released by Xing in an edition of 150 copies including collector’s edition of 10 copies with a multiple by Invernomuto - The Ocarina of Time (detail): jacquard blanket, 94 x 132 cm, signed by the artists, Cat.n° XONG collection XX08 (2023), Label Xing

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