Andrea Belfi
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Andrea Belfi "Between Neck & Stomach" CD (Hapna records 2006)

1-Sandlglass
2-ExtraEvil listen
3-Broken Shoes
4-Sleeping With ExtraEvil listen
5-Her Own Desert
6-Footprints

Between Neck & Stomach is grounded on two core elements: the first is the material collected during the unique experiment of turning a house into "a living creature with its own voice" (just one example: a synth emitting one continuous note shaking a cupboard filled with pots, pans and plates). The second core element is the choice of just one thematic note per song, around which each track is built and balanced.

In this challenging album the acoustic elements and the electronic ones mingle, intertwine and sometimes switch places: the acoustic sounds are treated as they were electronic, and the actual electronic ones are played at the very moment. Rhythmic patterns go beyond the mere beat as AB shapes them in cycles, ever-circling but ever-changing, both reassuring and surprising. This album sketches imaginary landscapes where drums, guitars and voices blend into a bunch of eclectic tracks, which, in spite of their radical minimalist roots, are definitively worthy of the name 'songs'.

Andrea Belfi's skills in composing and editing is electro acoustic works were clearly perceivable in his 2002 debut album, Ned n°2, warmly welcomed and well reviewed by magazines such as The Wire, Bananafish, Sound Projector

REVIEWS

  • The Wire (December 2006)
  • Vital Weekly (December 2006)
  • Boomkat (December 2006)
  • Blowupmagazine (October 2006)
  • Sodapop (October 2006)
  • SandsZine (November 2006)
  • Undomondo (November 2006)
  • Cracked (November 2006)
  • Subjectivisten (November 2006)
  • Alternative Nation (November 2006)
  • Bad Alchemy (November 2006)
  • RockLab (Ottobre 2006)
  • Tiny Mix Tapes (November 2006)
  • Digital Industries (December 2006)
  • Sonhors (December 2006)
  • Debug (December 2006)
  • Kinda Muzik (December 2006)
  • All Music Guide (December 2006)
  • Sentireascoltare (Marzo 2007)
  • Monochrome magazine(October 2006)
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    REVIEWS


    The Wire (Dicembre 2006)
    20-12-2006

    The Italian underground has been gathering strength these past few years, with the Fringes and Bovindo labels documenting key sides from Giuseppe Ielasi, Valerio Tricoli, Domenico Sciano and Alessandro Bosetti, while American label Last visibile Dog has released solo disc by Renato Rinaldi and Stefano Pilia. In additino, several great groups have stemmed from the friendship between these players, includine the elecroacoustic of Oreledigneur and the concrete rock of Medves and 3/4HadBeenEliminated.
    Andrea Belfi is a member of both Medves and Rosolina Mar, and Between Neck And Stomach is his second solo album, featuring contributions from Tricoli and Pilia. These artists share an interest in mapping the space between rock, electroacoustic, improvvisation and weightless songs of figures like Graham Sutton and Mark Hollis. Between Neck And Stomach feels like the contiuation of one particolar interface of song and sound, following in the footstep of This Heat, Talk Talk’s final two albums and Dean Roberts’s The Black Moths Play The Grand Cinema.
    Belfi’s compositions work through various tableaux. The album is fortified by it’s conceptual underpinnings, namely the activation of a house as a musical instrument, and the arrangement of each song around one note. Belfi uses these structural conceits as opportunities, not endpoints:over its ten minutes, “Extraevil” departs its introductory blasts of martial drumming and lonesome melodica, knitting spiderwebs of guitar around pregnant silences. The clatter of percussion and household objects scores the album, unsettling the percolatine drones that rumbe through the disc. The real victory of Belfi’s astonishing record is the ease of its cohabitation of melody and experiment. Few do it so well.
    Jon Dale
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