Andrea Belfi
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DISCOGRAPHY
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
    Vital Weekly (Dicembre 2006)
    22-12-2006

    Some weeks ago I visited an evening at Extrapool which I anticipated very much. 3/4Hadbeeneliminated played, together with Fear Falls Burning and Andrea Belfi. I very much looked forward to the first, but was disappointed by their loud volume which took away the tension of the music, the second was very consistent in his high quality but it was Belfi who blew me away. He closed the evening of loud music, with something that was the entire opposite. Playing drums and some ancient synthesizer it was as sparse as it was beautiful. You can imagine that I picked his CD out to play first from the three new releases on Häpna. How much I like the CD, it's not what I heard at the concert. Here he plays along with a lot of people, playing guitar, slide guitar, drums and various big band like sounds (wind instruments and such). It seems to me that the material is generated by methods of improvisation, but in the stage of mixing elements have been added or deleted, so that a less improvised sounding and more coherent, even composed record was made. It's not that I'm disappointed with this at all, it is just sounding so different from the concert. It took various rounds of playing this before it unfolded it's beauty. A lot of small things happen on this album. Explorations of one note, getting expanded upon. Acoustics and electronics mingle in a very delicate and gentle way, making it at times very hard to tell the difference between the two. In all a great release, fitting very well on the Häpna label and perhaps next time the real solo thing?
    Frans De Waard
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