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Padre, fammi partire! (a tribute to Franco Battiato)
“Padre, fammi partire!” (Father, make me leave!). Franco Battiato, orphan of a father, sings this verse in "Da Orienta a Occidente". He declaims it solemnly and decisively. More than a request for a blessing, it is a declaration of intent. The force with which this prayer is recited admits of no weakness, no compromise and no obstacle. To leave is necessary. The volcano is there, showing the way. The power of this phrase reflects the impatience of a hawk that, tied to the arm of its falconer, wa…
Ripari Minimi
“Ripari Minimi” is the second album by Marco Paltrinieri on Canti Magnetici and it is a very different affair from its 2020 predecessor “The Weaver”. Almost entirely instrumental, with the exception of a few tracks sung by Paltrinieri himself, “Ripari Minimi” gathers ten songs that transcend genre boundaries while exploring the tension between song-based composition and musique concrete experimentation. Entirely composed and recorded at home, often in the presence of Paltrinieri’s two children i…
Branes
*150 copies limited edition* In 2010 Giovanni Di Domenico formed a band called “Mo(ve)ments Ensemble” and released a CD on Belgian independent label Spocus. The concept and repertoire of that band reflected Di Domenico’s love for subtle orchestration and chamber music sensibilities, the basic idea behind it being the dissertation of the organic elements that form the instruments involved (in that case the wood of the strings and clarinet) and the re-construction of them by means of musical ideas…
L'ebbrezza delle grandi profondità
*Limited edition of 100* "Lʼebbrezza delle grandi profondità" is the outcome from the first collaboration between sonic artist Francesco Fonassi and producer Marta Salogni.Recorded live at Spettro (Brescia, Italy) in September 2021 during a "tape maze" live performance, the ten tracks take us in a cinematic journey towards the oceanic forests explored and described by Jacques-Yves Cousteauʼs "The Silent Worldʼ"The inebriation of being underwater is at the epicentre of a drifting sonic narrative …
Musica Lacrimosa
*Limited edition of 50* Musica Lacrimosa, C45 single sided, Taranto 1974.The photo is an aerial view of the British naval air attack on the Italian battle fleet in Taranto harbour, night of 11–12 November 1940 (Operation Judgement).
Low Islands
*Edition of 100* ‘I call the place I am writing now the bay of broken things. In the February storms, spume wraiths climb the hundred-foot cliff to fight and fall like bitter rain in the moonlight upon the cabin roof. The earth shakes from the drum roll of the surf. I lie awake and watch through the window beyond my bed. There is no ticking in my brain; this is the elemental night of chaos. This is the sea chewing its million-year way into the heart of the continent. The caves beneath resound wi…
Mts (Tape)
MTS is made of audio materials collected during the summer of 2016; the two tracks combine and try to reproduce the muteness of documents and various misperceptions. Limited edition of 70. Elisha Morningstar produces abstract sound pieces through manipulation of different kind of sources. Tape loops, concrete parts, harsh noise .. if the elements of this release have been widely developed in a myriad of outputs, what makes this one unique is the way in which these elements are used to tell a sto…
Re-Recorder
*Edition of 100* This release initiates a series of propositions between Bonnetta and Hamann exploring film sound design as a relation of anecdotal music. Each side is composed of location recordings, musical fragments, foley, in-studio recordings, outtakes, and sketches gleaned from various re-recording processes. In the absence of images, these sound propositions reflect on the possibilities of a particular form of ‘aural cinema,’ of fictional spaces constructed from the reordering and recasti…
Le rêve, l’ombre et la vision
Seven sound-paintings inspired by the poems of Finnish writer Eeva-Liisa Manner and the paths of the Deep North which revolve around the boreal circle, those lakes, shores, cliffs, fjords and large forests inhabited by other lives, other presences than ours. Le rêve, l’ombre et la vision is constructed from field recordings of natural phenomena at various open sites: echo in a wooded valley, geyser, cliffs rocks, glacial lake sculpted by a forgotten glacier, fire, landscape after freezing rain, …
Oh! Uomo
*Edition of 70* Oh! Uomo (Part I) “What I love are not the pieces, but the repetitions, the protractions; to proceed slowly on my way, to come back, back to the same thing, being a litany, litany as life, to stay long there before ending, not willing to make music of a man – and above all of a composer, and and above all of a westerner – but rather music of a sparrow, a quite indecisive sparrow perched on a branch, a sparrow trying to call a man…” (H.Michaux) "Oh! Uomo (Part I)" is a composition…
Rompighiaccio Destiny
Edition of 80. "Rompighiaccio Destiny" is an auto generated composition resulted by the random interactions of two different tape recorders left to play and mixed without any external intervention except for some subtile variations of equalization, pitch and modulation through a delay used in effect send. "We have an increasing desire in any case to get firm ground under our feet. The floe has been a good friend to us, but it is reaching the end of its journey, and it is liable at any time now …
Magneto Mori: Vienna
** Limited edition of 200 ** A fragmented sound portrait of Vienna constructed from found sounds, buried tapes and field recordings. In Magneto Mori sounds from Vienna’s past and present are conjoined in a stew of semi-degraded audiotape. Using a portable reel-to-reel tape recorder sounds from around the city were recorded direct to tape over a two-day period. This tape was then cut into fragments and buried in a hole in the ground with a number of souvenir fridge magnets that erased the portion…
Non Bruciare Tutto
** Limited edition of 50 ** Non bruciare tutto (Don’t burn it all) is a living body formed mainly in 2013, in Ottaviano, except for the homonymous track which is from 2019 (Venice). The only track registered in Turin is from 2016. One thing leads to another: thanks to my childhood friend, I bought my first synthesizer; I sold a scooter; I bought a laptop; I cried on a silent night. I enter the poetry of sound with the need to write, to go through a non-explicit and chaotic language. This time an…
Musiche dell'Adolescenza
** Limited edition of 50 ** Canti Magnetici presents Musiche dell'Adolescenza by Matteo Martino. Thanks to Donato Epiro, Luca Garino, Andrea Penso and Gaspare Sammartano for making my dream come true; Caterina Bianchetti, Davide Elos, Alberto Ezzu, my family and my friends for their encouragement and support; my Conservatory teachers Andrea Agostini, Stefano Bassanese and Domenico Sciajno for everything they taught me; Carlo Barbagallo and Federico Primavera for helping me to use the Control Roo…
Waterfront
Composed and recorded by Gaspare Sammartano. Sammartano plays walkman, sampler, field recordings, tape loops, found tapes, an old stereo 8 tape abandoned in Punta Rondinella. Punta Rondinella field recordings by Pierluca Ditano. Swimming coach: Donato Epiro. Mastered by Renato Grieco. Tag Design by Alef. Layout by Peppe Frisino. Gaspare Sammartano is an Italian underground musician and sound maker. His solo work is focused on gathering and manipulation of tapes and reflecting on the evolution of…
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…
Darenth
**80 copies. Sold out at source** In Michael Bonaventure's own words: I have been endlessly busy playing and creating in the sonic universe that is the organ since childhood. I love this instrument because of its kaleidoscopic tonal potential and limitless capacity to sustain sound - qualities that are exploited very fully in the music you are going to hear in this album. Darenth is a massive meditation, a cycle of three tone poems composed almost entirely of drones, tone-clusters and repetitive…
Walkman Jazz
Edition of 50. Each cassette is an unique piece housed in a black box. No name, no titles, no label. Only shit plastic and sound. Sammartano strikes again! Broken the ice on his last trip “Rompighiaccio Destiny”, the man returns as the only director of a doped Banda of new mutants, freaks and borderline cases that plays at its own funeral party on a ship that sails a radioactive sea towards a new promised land (that obviously doesn't exist). Non music for no future. Recorded at Gallleriapiù (B…
Om Telolet Om
* Edition of 80 * Luigi Monteanni is one of the founders of Artetetra collective and already component of musical projects devoted to the ambiguous mix between exoticism and the exotic and between fake cultural appropriation and authentic cultural invention. Om telolet om is a composition made out of small and medium audio cut-ups and samples taken from various youtube videos compilations regarding a specific theme named after these words. "Om telolet om" refers to a meme, and to a popular inte…
Incoming Message Cassette
Edition of 50. A selection of some messages from an anonymous incoming message cassette found in a answering machine. It includes only messages sent by Doriano’s father. This recording is the conversation between a man and a magnetic tape. It highlights our tendency to store our burdens inside small machines. Found and edited by Federico Lupo Federico Lupo (Palermo, 1984) over the last few years has worked sampling texts, images and sounds, notes in the margins of study models. From 2005 to 201…