Devid Ciampalini
Eterna
Set in the year 3388 on the planet Eterna to craft a metaphysical chronicle exploring sci-fi themes in the surreal style of authors such Roland Topor, Frank Herbert, Moebius and Panos Cosmatos. Images of ‘void assemblies’, ‘meta-human faculties’, ‘synods’ and ‘masters of expression’ help visualize a stratified universe of power plays, arcane arts and cryptic technologies. Musically, the album is informed by the grandeur of weird-futuristic TV bumpers from the 90's and a long tradition of audio e…
Meccanismi
Tip! ** 33 copies * Cristiano Carosi on tapes and samples, Devid Ciampalini on FM synthesizer and sequencer; each shape rolls into the next one with no previous plan, like skipping from a radio station to the other during a 40 minutes travel on the highway to planet earth year xxxx. Primo Tempo and Secondo Tempo were recorded live with no overdubs in February 2020, Terzo Tempo was remixed in April 2020
Sorgente
Sorgente is the first solo album by the Italian Maestro Devid Ciampalini. Recorded in a period of isolation spent in Garfagnana, a geographical and historical area in Tuscany, between the Apuan Alps and the main chain of the Tuscan Emilian Apennines, Sorgente reflects the nature of his genesis and the shapeless character of the watercourses which inspired it. On the footsteps of itineraries traveled in youth, Devid opens a dialogue between the natural elements of these unspoiled landscapes and t…
El origen del pensamiento mágico
**75 copies** Italy and Argentina blend together in slow motion and atonality: the collaboration of Italian music explorer Devid Ciampalini and Argentinan free sonic experimentalist Pablo Picco have a voice and a path of their own: dense layers of analog synths erupt from every layer beneath the ground, field recordings of explosive apparatus, and smokey transmissions of percussion, strings and voices find their way to the cliff of human voices which appear to be broadcasted from inside a giant …