Andrea Belfi "Between Neck & Stomach" CD (Hapna records 2006)
1-Sandlglass
2-ExtraEvil
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3-Broken Shoes
4-Sleeping With ExtraEvil
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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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