Hieratico

Nicholas Remondino

OOH-sounds Records

Artist: Nicholas Remondino
Label: OOH-sounds Records
Year: 2026
Roberto Musci: sampler, granular synthesis
Track: “Sospire”

Hieratico is a hybrid album by Italian percussionist, sound artist and improviser Nicholas Remondino.

Centred on an expanded and modified drum kit, the work explores resonance, texture and materiality through sounds inspired by stone, wood, wind, earth, metal, grass, rain, clouds and bark. The album brings together diverse voices, accents and dialects, while its instrumentation crosses idioms and traditions.

Roberto Musci contributes sampler and granular synthesis to “Sospire”, adding an electroacoustic layer to the album’s tactile, ritualistic and deeply atmospheric sound world.

Nicholas Remondino collaborates with the Accademia Chigiana in Siena and with ensembles including Tabula Rasa Ensemble and Silentium Ensemble. His main projects include LAMIEE, as composer and producer, and Dròlo Ensemble, of which he is the director.

Goodbye Monsters

Cinedelic / Soave Records (IT

Artist: Roberto Musci
Label: Soave / Cinedelic Records
Year: 2024

Goodbye Monsters is a musical journey through memories, landscapes and cultures.

The album brings together sounds and inspirations from Africa, India, Indonesia, the Middle East and the Far East, combining field recordings, electronics, granular synthesis, guitar and AI-based audiovisual experimentation.

Through fragments of travel — thoughts, sounds, breaths, waves, wind, flavours, colours and scents — the work reflects on fear, transformation and the healing power of cultural diversity.

Cargo Cult

E.P. Tina records (U.K.) 

Artist: Roberto Musci
Label: Tina Records, UK
Format: EP
Year: 2024

Cargo Cult is inspired by the social and spiritual phenomena that emerged in parts of Melanesia during and after the Second World War, when remote Pacific island communities encountered Western military forces and the sudden arrival of goods, technology and supplies.

After the war, some communities developed ritual practices intended to bring the “cargo” back, recreating airstrips, radios, control towers and military-style ceremonies as symbolic acts of invocation. The well-known John Frum movement on the island of Tanna, in Vanuatu, is one of the most emblematic examples.

The EP transforms this unusual syncretism — between technologically advanced Western systems and ancient, remote cultures — into a contemporary sound work, connecting ritual memory, technological illusion, field-recorded atmosphere and experimental electronics.

Cargo Cult is dedicated to Jon Hassell, whose “Fourth World” concept bridged tradition and futurism, and to Brian Reitzell, composer of visionary soundtracks for cinema and television, including Hannibal and Lost in Translation.

There are also two remixes done by Cut Hands, a.k.a William Bennett of Whitehouse, and industrial millennial Nokuit

Losing the Orthodox Path  

Cinedelic / Soave Records (IT) 

Artist: Roberto Musci
Label: Cinedelic / Soave Records, Italy
Year: 2020

Losing the Orthodox Path brings together recordings from two distinct projects: a contemporary reworking of medieval musical materials with electronics, and music composed for Principle of Moment, a dance project by Dieter Heitkamp in Berlin inspired by the art of Yves Klein.

The album features a rich ensemble of musicians and voices, combining acoustic instruments, electronics, sampling, improvisation and theatrical atmospheres. 

With contributions from Giovanni Venosta, Massimo Mariani, Sandro Cerino, Moni Ovadia, Roberto Zanisi and others, the work expands the language into a space where historical references, performance, sound collage and contemporary experimentation converge.

A Noise , A Sound  

Cinedelic / Soave Records (IT) 

Artist: Roberto Musci & Giovanni Venosta
Label: Cinedelic / Soave Records, Italy
Year: 2019

Originally released by ReR, A Noise, A Sound is a major collaborative work by Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta. The album combines sampled music from Africa, Asia and the Middle East with acoustic instruments, electronics and a plunderphonic approach close to musique concrète.

The vinyl edition restores the project as a key document of Musci and Venosta’s unique sound language: decontextualized musical fragments, imaginary ethnographies, refined electroacoustic composition and a sophisticated dialogue between sampling and live instrumentation.

With contributions from musicians including Sandro Cerino, Roberto Zanisi, Luciano Margorani, David Moss and others, the album remains one of the most representative examples of Musci and Venosta’s collaborative research. 

Cover artwork by Paola Fonticol

   Water Messages on Desert Sand 

Technique Records (USA)

Artist: Roberto Musci & Giovanni Venosta
Label: Technique / Goodfellas
Original release: 1986
Vinyl reissue: 2018

Water Messages on Desert Sand was the first LP by Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta. Originally released in 1986, the album became a landmark of Italian experimental music, combining sampling, acoustic instruments, non-Western musical sources and compositional strategies close to musique concrète and plunderphonics.

The 2018 vinyl reissue restored the original cover and brought the album back to circulation after more than three decades. With guitar, synthesizers, piano, sampler, winds and percussion, the record introduced a distinctive musical language situated between travel memory, chamber music, ethnographic imagination and electroacoustic experimentation.

 Urban & Tribal Portraits

Cinedelic / Soave Records (IT) 

Artist: Roberto Musci & Giovanni Venosta
Label: Recommended Records / Cinedelic / Soave Records
Original release: 1987
Vinyl reissue: 2018

Urban and Tribal Portraits is the second LP by Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta. The album develops their distinctive method of combining musical materials from Africa, Asia and the Middle East with piano, synthesizers, percussion, winds, double bass and sampling.

The work moves between imaginary travel, urban abstraction and ritual memory, creating a highly personal form of electroacoustic world-building. The 2018 vinyl reissue restored the album to circulation with its original cover, reaffirming its importance within the history of Italian experimental and plunderphonic music.

The Loa of Music Complete Sessions 

Cinedelic / Soave Records (IT) 

Artist: Roberto Musci
Label: Cinedelic / Soave Records, Italy
Year: 2017

The Loa of Music — Complete Sessions restores the full vision of The Loa of Music, originally conceived as a double LP but initially released in reduced form for production reasons.

This edition presents the complete sessions on double vinyl, recovering archival recordings and expanding the project’s original universe of ritual references, field-recorded materials, sampling, electronics and visual documentation. The release brings back the full scope of Musci’s early work, where Vodou symbolism, imaginary landscapes, non-Western musical sources and experimental composition converge into a unique sonic atlas.

Tower of Silence

 Music from Memory ( NL ) 

Artist: Roberto Musci
Label: Music From Memory, Netherlands
Format: Double LP compilation
Year: 2016

Tower of Silence is a retrospective double LP compiling works from Roberto Musci’s archive, from early recordings to later and previously unpublished material.

Released by Amsterdam-based label Music From Memory, the compilation introduced Musci’s work to a new international audience and highlighted the continuity of his research into sampling, field recordings, non-Western sound sources and electroacoustic composition.

The album functions as both an archival document and a new listening experience, tracing the evolution of Musci’s sound world across decades of experimentation, travel and studio practice.

Doubling & Silence

Recommended records Italia 

Artist: Roberto Musci
Label: Auf Dem Nil / Recommended Records Italia
Year: 1988

Inspired by the work of Italian surrealist painter Gustavo Foppiani, Doubling & Silence unfolds as a series of sonic tableaux. The album connects visual art, symbolic imagery and experimental composition through acoustic instruments, electronics and atmospheric sound construction.

With contributions from Christina Kubisch, Pier Luigi Andreoni, Riccardo Sinigaglia, Raffaele Serra and Roberto Musci, the work reflects on mystery, memory and abstraction. Its connection to Foppiani’s visual universe gives the album a distinctive pictorial quality, where sound becomes a space of images, symbols and suspended emotional landscapes.

ReR Quarterly

Recommended (U. K.) 

Compilation: ReR Quarterly, Volume 2, Number 3
Label: Recommended Records, UK
Year: 1987
Track: Roberto Musci & Giovanni Venosta — “War Song (For Lovers Only)”

This issue of ReR Quarterly, the sound-magazine published by Recommended Records and November Books, includes “War Song (For Lovers Only)” by Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta alongside works by international experimental artists.

The track documents Musci and Venosta’s presence within the wider network of post-progressive, avant-garde and experimental music associated with Recommended Records. As part of the ReR catalogue, the piece reflects their dialogue with a broader international scene devoted to new forms of composition, sampling, improvisation and sonic research.

Urban and Tribal Portraits

Recommended Records (U.K.)

Artist: Roberto Musci & Giovanni Venosta
Label: Recommended Records, UK
Year: 1986

Urban and Tribal Portraits is the second LP by Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta. Released by Recommended Records, the album combines piano, synthesizer, guitar, percussion, winds, double bass and sampler with musical materials drawn from Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

The record extends the approach first developed in Water Messages on Desert Sand, creating a complex sound world where sampled sources and live instruments are decontextualized and recomposed into a form close to musique concrète and plunderphonics. It remains a central work in the duo’s exploration of imaginary ethnographies and experimental composition.

Water Messages on Desert Sands

Recommended Records (U.K.)

Artist: Roberto Musci & Giovanni Venosta
Label: Recommended Records, UK
Year: 1986

Water Messages on Desert Sand was the first LP by Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta. Combining sampler, guitar, synthesizers, piano, winds, percussion and non-Western musical sources, the album introduced a distinctive approach to experimental composition, situated between field-recorded memory, plunderphonics, chamber music and imaginary geography.

The record samples and reworks music from Africa, Asia and the Middle East, combining these materials with live instrumental performance. Its original language helped define the early collaboration between Musci and Venosta and remains one of the key documents of Italian experimental music from the 1980s.

Olympic Signals 

Giovanni Venosta

Raw Materials Records (Italy)

Artist: Giovanni Venosta
Label: Raw Materials Records, Italy
Year: 1985
Roberto Musci: sampler
Track: “Woman in Late”

Olympic Signals was Giovanni Venosta’s first LP, released by Raw Materials Records in 1985 and recorded in 1984. The album combines minimalism, avant-garde electronics and subtle ethnic influences, establishing a refined and exploratory musical language.

Roberto Musci contributes sampler to the track “Woman in Late”, one of the earliest collaborations between Musci and Venosta. The piece marks the beginning of an artistic relationship that would later become central to several landmark works in Italian experimental music.