Mimaroglumusicsales (February 2007)
13-02-2007
the quarterly arrival of the die schachtel box is inarguably the highlight of my existence as a shopkeep... i hate to play favorites but in truth i’m feeling their cross-section of dusty academic tape music & contemporary electro-acoustic psych more than just about anything these days... said feeling easily traceable to the quality-control & general “wow” nature of their deluxe-but-simple editions...
so... here is a brand-new (january 2007) release on their “zeit” series (documenting contemporary italian music born of the same fertile breeding ground that has thusfar yielded 3/4hadbeeneliminated, giuseppe ielasi, å, and so many other mms-favorites...) - the debut album from the duo of andrea belfi (whose recent häpna-label “between neck and stomach” got more than a few plays around here...) and mattia coletti.
the two work a fruitful combination of extended-technique acoustic instrumentation and slight electro-acoustic treatment that, in my mind, bridges the wide gap between free improvisation and more rock-ish tendencies (i hear a deep gastr del sol influence here - especially in some of the “louder” material...)
the more work i hear from this axis - the more i want to become some sort of mad-raving completist (i haven’t a duff one yet...) - excellent stuff.
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Andrea Belfi
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