Italian Air

~Νέα εισαγωγή, άλλο ένα νεοσύστατο label -από τα πολλά που δημιουργούνται τελευταία- το οποίο ειδικεύεται στις εκδόσεις και επανεκδόσεις αποκλειστικά σε βινύλιο.
Η Backwards, και το αδερφάκι του Ricerca Sonora, από την Ιταλία είναι ουσιαστικά μία ολοκληρωμένη αισθητική αποτύπωση σε ένα φωνογραφικό μέσο διάδωσης της αφοσίωσης, του πάθους και του ενθουσιασμού για ολόκληρο το φάσμα της πρωτοποριακής underground μουσικής δημιουργίας.
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Backwards is the brand-new label born by an innate passion for unusual music and by an unrestrained desire to produce representative works from the most disparate, and apparently distant, music genres: from insane industrial to introspective drone-ambient, from feverish post-punk to devastating psychedelia, not excluding the warm intimacy of songwriting and a certain kind of contemporary experimental folk music.

Passion for Music goes hand in hand with that, equally connaturate, for the materiality of "phonographic supports".
That's why Backwards will be devoted to publications of vinyl-only records, with limited editions that will include micro-editions in coloured vinyl, enriched with bonus stuff, such as additional 7", signed silk-screened (or meticulously hand-made) inserts, a lot of gadgets, and more...

Bluntly, the complete eclecticism is Backwards' vocation, both in its issues and their presentation, so as to be the opposite to the creative aridity of issues in unlimited series, peculiar in the collapsing (or already collapsed?) world of "mainstream".

Backwards' next target is to be genetically different than twin sister-label "RICERCA SONORA", this o­ne conceived to be more specialized in its releases, which will include "sound poetry", "concrète musique", "fluxus art" records, experimentation and avant-garde music in general. The meeting points between these two "creatures" will consist of the main aspects of editorial policies: unique choice for vinyl records and limited editions.

BACKWARDS WILL KICK YOUR EARS!
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In few years of work Fabio Orsi has achieved critique and fans, imposing his name as o­ne of the most important and representative of the whole international experimental and electronic independent scene. Backwards proudly presents his new work titled Von Zeit Zu Zeit.

This composition was recorded live in Berlin (2010) and after edited and mastered by Fabio Orsi in late 2011. Orsi plays synth, guitar and filters and, for o­nce, he just puts aside the warmth of the melodies and the samplings from the endless Alan Lomax archives, so close to the culture of his homeland. This time, he proposes two obscure and - partly - cold tracks, comparable to the kosmische musik - as if Fabio had embraced that "Central European" humus breathed in Berlin.

This cold, this early darkness turns into an o­neiric remembrance, a daydream... The hovered sounds of these two compositions make the listener's mind float in the space and, mostly o­n the second side of the record, the music gets warmer, rarefied and ambient, with a seductive hypnotic power.

Backwards released this record in a limited edition of 200 copies all in black wax, with 6 photo inserts.



The mighty guitarist Ninni Morgia  (highly acclaimed in the New York underground music scene), usually devoted to experimentation and improvisation in the wide world of free-jazz and avant-garde psychedelia, turns himself for the occasion into a real industrial musician, together with his companion Silvia Kastel, a young multi-instrumentalist and vocalist with a strong attitude for the bleak and jarring sounds from the first industrial music wave, which exploded in the mid 70s all over the South of England, giving birth to "The Fugitives", the second work by the "Control Unit" music project.

Clearly distancing itself from the previous "Ninni Morgia Control Unit", which is closer to the Sicilian artist's background, "The Fugitives" sounds like a perfect "car-crash" between the two most considerable industrial music currents: the American o­ne (Factrix above all) and the European (English preeminently) o­ne, which surely counts Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire among its seminal and best representatives.

Recorded more than thirty years later, the brand new Control Unit torture your ears just like a great industrial music album from 1978, with four intense episodes of pure madness sound, obscure and sensual at the same time, thanks to Morgia's devastating technique and delirious strings, and Kastel's hypnotic groans, biting screams and caustic, powerful synthetic "raids", just as Julian Cope in person wrote about her: "she squeals, cooes, howls, snarls, grunts and yelps through all manner of intriguing analogue-ishness[...]".

Backwards released this record in a limited edition of 300 copies with handmade silkscreened sleeve.

 
RICERCA SONORA proudly presents, as its first release (RS1), a new PHILIP CORNER album titled "Italian Air: Wind, Water & Metal (Aria Italiana: Vento, Acqua & Metallo)".

Philip Corner (b. 1933) studied composition with Henry Cowell and Otto Luening and musical analysis with Oliver Messiaen. During the 1960s and 70s he was an active member of Fluxus, a founder (along with James Tenney and Malcolm Goldstein) of the Tone Roads Chamber ensemble, the resident musician and composer for the Judson Dance Theatre, and co-founder of Gamelan Son Of Lion (with Barbara Benary and Daniel Goode).

"Italian Air: Wind, Water & Metal" presents three previously unpublished compositions by Philip Corner recorded in various locations.

On side 1 "Ear Wave" (Venice, October 1994) is a long piece for Korean cymbal in water: an ecstatic composition recorded and played outdoor by Phil Corner; acousmatic interjections of metallic resonances and subtle water sounds; you can listen the distant sound of the midnight bell of San Marco in Venice. o­n the second side the track "Gong/Ear" recorded in June 1990 (S.Andrea di Rovereto, Italy) Phil Corner plays gong together with rain and thunder for an abstracted and strongly emotional track. Followed by "I Respiri/The Breaths" an avant-garde composition for alphorn and gong recorded in 1992 (at Teatro Scandicci).

In very few words, Philip Corner is o­ne of the most important figure in the American avant-garde.

Edition of 300 copies. Single cover with 2 inserts.

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