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
Collector's edition available at https://www.soundohm.com/product/keyhole-mouth-art and at https://shop.flash---art.it/products/silvia-costa-claudio-rocchetti-keyhole-mouth

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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

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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
Collector's edition available at https://www.soundohm.com/product/brandhi-owst-art and at https://shop.flash---art.it/products/elvin-brandhi-owst

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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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unlike the snail

For Mediterranean Futures, kNN tinkers with a quill that pierces history, getting lost between the springs and the mouth through a subtext grafted in southern Italy. Bespeak the last among the last.

kNN is the moniker of Renato Grieco, composer and musician from Naples, south Italy.
Since 2012 Renato has been performing around the world both as a solo artist and in numerous collaborations as a musician, performer and sound dramaturge. His music is a complex cornucopia that origins from the musique concrète craftsmanship, culminating to orchestrations in which period instruments, imaginary lutherie, and sculptural rooms coexist. Speculative folklore, vocal architecture, and hauntology are the kernel of kNN’s poetics.
https://www.instagram.com/ 	knn 	/
With @knnsounds 


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