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Futuro Antico
Isole del Suono
FormatDigital AudioLabelBlack Sweat RecordsGenreExperimental
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Unreleased before, high quality recordings from the italian experimental trio Futuro Antico. The sound experience it's a mysterious synergy between the elements of Nature, a magical encounter between different souls but with elective affinity. Walter Maioli’s ancient and ethnic wind instruments are the breath of the Air, Riccardo Sinigaglia’s electronic spirit produces liquid sequences of the Water, while Dabiré’s african percussions materialize the voice and rhythms of the Earth. The result is a total creative Fire, a foamed core of perceptions and multiple sensory universes of distant memory. The dialogue between archaic and futuristic already investigated in the historic "Dai Primitivi All’Elettronica" sees here another bright episode in this unreleased live, the music recorded on tapes directly by the mixing console is the result of the memorable performance held in Bologna at the festival Isole Del Suono on 17 July 1980. The secret harmony between sounds is complete but at the same time brings out the expressive specificity of the three individual personality: the subtlety of reiterate sonic textures; waterfalls of minimalist piano; Sufi atmospheres supported by sequence of organs that reinterpret the frequencies of harmoniums lost, the solemn gait of an African balaphone absorbed in electronic vortices endless...these are some of the coordinates of a musical and cultural poetics that after years continues to wonder for his source of formal purity and multiplicity of stimuli
Format
Recorded July 1980 in Bologna
Release notes
"This record documents a live performance held in Piazza Santo Stefano in Bologna on July 17th, 1980 during the Isole del Suono (Sound Islands) experimental music festival. The sound was recorded on tape straight from the mixing console, which allowed for high-level audio quality."
| A1 | Untitled | ||
| B1 | Untitled | ||
| B2 | Untitled | ||
| B3 | Untitled |
- Gabin Dabiré
- Balafon, Percussion [Percussions]
- Walter Maioli
- Flute [Flutes], Percussion [Percussions]
- Giuseppe Ielasi
- Mastered By, Post Production
- Riccardo Sinigaglia
- Mastered By, Organ, Piano, Post Production, Synthesizer
- Roberto Masotti
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