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CYANOBACTERIA & HÜBSCH
“Are You an Orchid or a Dandelion ?”
"Here's a duo called Cyanobacteria, consisting of Francesco Gregoretti (drums) and Renato Gricco (double bass), teaming up one day in September 2016 with Carl Ludwig Hübsch, a well-known improviser playing the tuba. The duo has a similar background, even when I only heard of Gregoretti before. The five tracks span fifty-two minutes and form an on-going exploration of ideas, textures and all of that within the world of improvisation. It is a meeting of like-minded people, with one foot in a more traditional field of the genre and one firmly planted in something newer. You can recognize each of the instruments pretty easily here, in all of these pieces, but at times they also sound like something completely different; especially the tuba has a dual role in this. Unlike some of the other releases on Toxo Records, this isn't as loud and noisy but with amplification and feedback, there are occasional hints towards that. There is some fine interaction between the players, leaving room for the other to act and react, and none of the players seems to downplay their own role in the overall sound. It is most of the time the sum of three equal parts playing the music and throughout it works very fine. It is mostly an intense listening experience, which doesn't allow any loss of concentration. Not on behalf of the players, nor the listeners." Vital Weekly
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SEC_
“Mefite”
Composed, recorded, mixed and mastered by SEC_ between 2014 and 2015. Voice by M.DellaMorte. Words from Peter Liechti’s film “The Sound of Insects”, inspired by M. Shimada’s book “Diary of a mummy”. Premiered in Napoli as a live multichannel diffusion for several radios and speakers, with live voice. Thanks to Stefano Perna for radio broadcast technology and to M.DellaMorte for inspiring the concept.
Mefite is an Italic Goddess venerated in central and southern Italy, especially in the Irpinia Region. Goddess of fertility, she presides over the passage from life to death. Tremendous Goddess who has her cult-place located in the Ansanto Valley, the mortal moat, where horrible gas emissions coming out from a cave, carried by the wind, kill who goes too close.
A mortal air that governs the complex articulation of this cult: to ingratiate the Goddess it is forbidden to come too close to her, because you could die; to go through the Netherworld, instead, the same caution is requested, because the Death could enter the lungs before the way through is reached.
Through the words of “Diary of a mummy”, that already inspired the dearly departed film maker Peter Liechti, it was possible to approach this mysterious and unsettling subject. Here the passage between “this and the other world” is described almost literally, through the detailed diary of a death by starvation. A kind of suspension in the middle of the two, where death hits without a single touch, but, in doing it, gives also the opposite of what desired: nightmares instead of peace, pain instead of relief. A challenge that invites to move forward, towards the unfathomable zone that divides Life and Death.
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