The Books

Norvik & Blear Moon - The World Inside (2021)
released 22 Oct 2021 on Valley View Records
https://blearmoon.bandcamp.com/album/the-world-inside

Norvik & Blear Moon - Enshaded In Forgetfulness Divine

Four tracks from The Books' second record, 'The Lemon of Pink' originally released in 2004.
I composed this record in North Adams MA, in a ramshackle apartment on High St.  I remastered it and redesigned the CD/LP package for rerelease on Temporary Residence in March 2011.  

LOP 05 s is for evrysing remastered

I Didn't Care

‘Going Home’ is a pure ballad. Correction: ‘Going Home’ seems like a pure ballad. But in fact the song reveals layers like infinitely opening drawers. Over the vibrant chords of an acoustic guitar, a voice begins to sing a melancholy melody at a cosmic distance that recalls The xx or London Grammar. This track evokes the mellow sadness of autumn. As you listen and relisten, you spin endlessly against the backdrop of a sharp, haunting arpeggiator that drives this song towards the softly shining stars … far away from yourself.

Cosmic

Going Home

I Want To Tell You

For Bass Clarinet and 4-Channel Audio

Bass Clarinet: Heather Roche

Art: Gerhard Richter

Murky Windows and Cloudy Horizons (2020)

A track from "Haunted Houses" album. Released by Laverna label. Digital copy is available for free download here: http://www.laverna.net/releases/Lav85.html

Composed, recorded and mixed by Alessandro Barbanera (march - july 2020)
Mastered by Francis M. Gri

"Haunted Houses" is a collection of seven tracks in slow, melancholy, dreamlike, nocturnal mood. It's a work made of waiting, of grainy sounds and silences full of rustles. It's a work talking about isolation, either in a physical and mental space; which talks about full spaces and empty or restricted spaces, of presences and absences, of memory and hope, of distances, of houses and rooms. Rooms innervated with restlessness and waiting (the opening track "Sleepless"). Houses where memories crowd, layered memories that coexist with the present (the title-track "Haunted Houses" is a short electroacoustic study on perception: indistinct, evanescent sounds, old pianos in the distance, confused and ectoplasmic voices, furniture that moves from the floor above, sighs...). And then there are presences such as those of literary characters, which can come to life in the mind while reading ("The death of Joe Christmas" is inspired by the restless and controversial character narrated by William Faulkner in "Light in August"). 
Even absences find space in the album, manifesting themselves in their impalpable distance (the piece "In Absence"), as memories of a past that has no place in the present. Then the rooms can become places overloaded with pain (the track "Torture Room"), where this suffering and effort can take an expiatory, spiritual, meditative form. And after all this inner torment, even isolation can turn into an opportunity for reflection, "redemption" and sincere change: the final tracks "Pure" and "Endless" try to capture this renewed spirit, following a strongly emotional path. “Endless” closes the circle, but it can also reopen it. 

"Haunted Houses" was made with guitars, contact microphones, an old cassette recorder, field recordings, dusty and grainy lo-fi sounds, found objects, recordings of streets at night, sounds of a carpentry workshop, slowed sounds, manipulation of loops of classical music taken from the radio. Every detail, every sound has been carved and polished day after day, chiseled and positioned with care and devotion, in a work of "sound craftsmanship".

Haunted Houses

Sleepless

Marco Lucchi : piano
Susan Matthews : electronics

a rework by Susan Matthews of some previous tracks by Marco Lucchi

for "piano patterns", a project by Marco Lucchi
https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi/sets/piano-patterns

settembre 2020

Marco Lucchi & Susan Matthews - piano patterns (combinations)

Sunday night guitar loops. Unlike other recent guitar loop experiments I've tried out, this one has a live component. After the first minute or so (which I'd already layered in advance of hitting record), new material is added and then later deleted. This setup consists of electric guitar, reverb pedal, overdrive, and looper, plus an eBow on occasion for those extended notes. After recording (amp to phone, live in the room), I used Adobe Audition to implement a fade in and a fade out, and for a little additional reverb.

Night (There and Back)

The Books - None But Shining Hours

The Books - Classy Penguin

The Books - Smells Like Content

The Books - Three Day Night

The Books - Enjoy Your Worries, You May Never Have Them Again

Owl Eyes Shining In The Darkness

Title track from my new 2-track single "Nothing to Me" 
Available on Spotify and Apple Music

Nothing to Me

Our second album is called "Anchor", it comes out on September 2nd on Temporary Residence LTD. 

You can order the special edition colored vinyl at zammutosound.com


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