Vinyls
Melanesia
Oxmose Record Label ( Fr )
2020 - 2021
Melanesia is a large area made up of several groups of islands: Papua New Guinea, Irian Jaya, Vanuatu New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Moluccas, Loyalty Islands, Torres Strait Islands and Bismarck Islands.
The name of Melanesia derives from the Greek melas "black" and nesoi "islands" due to the dark skin of its inhabitants . The origins of peoples of Melanesia are very ancient : several studies have highlighted in their DNA genetic traits that can be traced back to the man of Neanderthal and Denisova (about 70,000 years ago).
In addition, there is an indigenous genetic oddity: about 10% of dark-skinned islanders sport a bright blonde hair not derived from contacts with American or European navigators.
Their isolation has preserved primitive culture and, perhaps, music. For the music I use traditional ethnic music from Melanesia : flute, voice, pan flute, mouth arc, percussion. It is traditional music of the populations of Kanaki, Itamul, Kaluli, Niugini, Abelam, Huli, Enga.
For "Melanesia" I used :
Plunderfonic Chamber orchestra: oboe, bassoon, contra basoon, clarinet, bass clarinet, french horn, piano, cello , viola , double-bass , piano
Ethnic Music : traditional music of the populations of Kanaki, Itamul, Kaluli, Niugini, Abelam, Huli, Enga : flute, voice, pan flute, mouth arc, and percussion
Nature sound of Melanesia : sea, wind, rain and thunderstorms modifying them according to the techniques of Concrete Music , in homage to Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry .
Harold Boué aka Abstraxion
"Lion's drums"
Biologicrecords
2019-2021
Harold Bouè is a French producer based in Marseille. He released at the end of 2013 his stunning debut LP Break of Lights on HAKT Recordings, and on Nicolas Jaar's label Other People.
Lion's Drums full length exists as en exploration in multiple dimensions. First by challenging the notion of the album format by presenting a body of work that lies snuggly between remixes, edits and original works and secondly as a means to delve into the transcendent potential of the drum.
The album sets the tone by putting these two concepts fully on display with its hypnotic chant, swaying one into ease over the first two songs. In orderly cue folding and unfolding, meditatively through, melodies as muddied pastelle whispers cast over the measured language of the drum. Breaking away from the musing themes of the opening songs we find an ecstatic ritual in "Tanz der Korperlinge" and "Journey to Middle Earth", two distinct varieties but both of the same perennial species.
Inky ether seeps back in through the second half of the album with a peak of frenzied tumbling toms and incongruous textures hovering above in the Manos Tsangaris' collaboration "Crying Tafel" and his re-imagining of Tullio De Piscopo's unhinged drum excursion "Fastness".
The closing exemplifies the edit/remix/original ethos proposed for this work with Lions Drums drawing from tapes and original material of electronic pioneers Suzanne Ciani and Roberto Musci. Drawing from unreleased music and song sketches by the original artists as well as field recordings from travels & studio sessions made by Roberto Musci & Manos Tsangaris in the 80's and early 90's he constructs a side winding journey through playful textures and ethereal moods.
" Khami shintai " and " Paris 1971 "
Loosing the orthodox path
Cinedelic / Soave records ( It )
2020
The recordings of two projects : middle age music revisited with electronics and the soundtrack for " Principle of moment " ( Berlin) a dance project by Dieter Heitkamp about the art of Yves Klein . With :
Giovanni Venosta : piano
Massimo Mariani : guitar
Roberto Musci : sampler , guitar , percussion
Sandro Cerino : sax , clarinet
Silvia Mandolini : violin
Moni Ovadia : voice
Roberto Zanisi : percusion
Ciaccio De Rossi :cello
Cesare Picco : trumpet
Liliana Bancolini : vooice
Laura Pone : voice
Amelie Berson : voice , flute
Didier Aschour : voice
A noise , a sound
Cinedelic / Soave records ( It )
2019
The second CD for ReR with Giovanni Venosta and :
Marco Bill Vecchi : sampler
Sandro Cerino : sax , flute , calarinet
Roberto Zanisi : percussion , steel drums , harmonica , bouzuki , guitar
Luciano Margorani : guitar
Saverio Angiolini : bass
David Moss : voice
Momi D'Averi : cello
Ciaccio De Rossi : violin
Olivia Bignardi : clarinet
Giovanni Venosta : piano , harmonium , percussion
Roberto Musci : guitar , sampler , percussion , kalimba
Music from all over the world ( Africa , Asia and Middle East ) sampled and played with " real" musical instruments , decontextualized to create a music near to " concrete music" in Plunderphonics style.
Beautiful cover taken from a work by the painter, sculptor and model Paola Fonticoli
Water messages on desert sand
Technique records
2018
Music from all over the world ( Africa , Asia and Middle East ) sampled and played with " real" musical instruments , decontextualized to create a music near to " concrete music" in Plunderphonics style .
" Water message on desert sand " was the first LP with Giovanni Venosta , (Grammy nominated 1987 ) with:
Giovanni Venosta : piano , synth
Roberto Musci : guitar , synth , sampler
Marco Bill Vecchi : sampler
Valentino DeSanti : sampler
Tiziano Tononi : percussion
Andrea Petrus : french horn
Sandro Cerino : sax , flute , clarinet
Daniele Cavallanti : sax
Franchino Gabualdi : oboe
Walter Prati : bass
Reissue on vinyl with original cover after 32 years and Edited by Goodfellas records
Urban & tribal portraits
Cinedelic / Soave records ( It )
2018
Music from all over the world ( Africa , Asia and Middle East ) sampled and played with " real" musical instruments , decontextualized to create a music near to " concrete music" in Plunderphonics style.
" Urban and tribal portraits " was the second LP with Giovanni Venosta , with:
Giovanni Venosta : piano , synth
Roberto Musci : guitar , synth , percussion
Sandro Cerino : sax , flute , clarinet
Paolino Dalla Porta : double bass
Marco Bill Vecchi : sampler
Reissue on vinyl with original cover after 30 years
The Loa of music complete sessions
Cinedelic / Soave records ( It )
2017
Originally, "The Loa of Music" was supposed to be a double LP, which, due to economic problems of production, it was printed as a single lp with only part of the songs.
I found the original songs ( recorded 33 years ago )and they were printed on the album "The Loa of music complete sessions" in a double lp in gorgeous transparent white vinyl with ethnic photos of the era.
Tower of silence
Music from Memory ( NL )
2016
The history of my music in a compilation from the music of my first LP to the latest music project with unpublished tracks , in a double LP.
Music From Memory is an Amsterdam based record label set up in 2013 by Abel Nagengast, Jamie Tiller and Tako Reyenga.
" Our focus is on compiling music that we believe deserves a wider audience than it received at the time of it's release or has maybe never even been heard; unreleased material which has remained only in the archives of the musicians who made it. "
Doubling & silence
Recommended records Italia
1988
This recording, released by Auf Dem Nil / Recommended Records Italia is inspired by the paintings of surrealist painter Gustavo Foppiani [1925-1986] , it is presented as a series of tableaux.
Gustavo Foppiani is probably the most important artist belonging to the so called "Piacenza School". Aesthetically speaking, he prefers a crepuscular lyricism and he uses ashen and warn tones for the passing of years on the board, that he subjects to some expert processes of getting old.
It is during the years of surrealistic and abstract landscapes,that he devotes himself to the visual research about the composition.
Now, it is already present the fascination for the "symbol" that continues also during the following phases, when the author concentrates mostly about contents, especially reflecting upon the enigma and the anxiety, creating lively sensations of mystery.
" Azur noise" :
Christina Kubisch : flute
Pier Luigi Andreoni : percussion
Riccardo Sinigaglia : synth
Roberto Musci : guitar
"A Poetry Of Broken Hearts"
Raffaele Serra : synth
Roberto Musci : sax
Riccardo Sinigaglia : vibes , synth
Pier Luigi Andreoni : voice
Rer Quarterly
Recommended (U. K.)
1987
Volume 2 , number 3 : The ReR Quarterly was an English "quarterly" sound-magazine comprising an LP record and a magazine. With :
John Oswald
Luciano Margorani
Tone Dogs
Amy Denio
David Myers
James Grigsby
When
Kampec Dolores
La 1919
Grigsby / Laner
J. Lachan
Miriodor
It was published at irregular intervals between 1985 and 1997 by Recommended Records and November Books, and edited by English percussionist, lyricist and music theorist, Chris Cutler.
Roberto Musci & Giovanni Venosta : " War song ( for lovers only ) "
Urban and tribal portraits
Recommended Records (U.K.)
1987
Music from all over the world ( Africa , Asia and Middle East ) sampled and played with " real" musical instruments , decontextualized to create a music near to " concrete music" in Plunderphonics style. With :
Giovanni Venosta : piano , synth
Roberto Musci : guitar , synth , percussion
Sandro Cerino : sax , flute , clarinet
Paolino Dalla Porta : double bass
Marco Bill Vecchi : sampler
Water messages on desert sands
Recommended Records (U.K.)
1986
Music from all over the world ( Africa , Asia and Middle East ) sampled and played with " real" musical instruments , decontextualized to create a music near to " concrete music" in Plunderphonics style .
" Water message on desert sand " was the first LP with Giovanni Venosta , (Grammy nominated 1987 ) with:
Giovanni Venosta : piano , synth
Roberto Musci : guitar , synth , sampler
Marco Bill Vecchi : sampler
Valentino DeSanti : sampler
Tiziano Tononi : percussion
Andrea Petrus : french horn
Sandro Cerino : sax , flute , clarinet
Daniele Cavallanti : sax
Franchino Gabualdi : oboe
Walter Prati : bass
Olympic signals
GiovanniVenosta
Raw Materials Records (Italy)
1985
"Olympic signals " was recorded on 1984 ; it was Giovanni Venosta's first LP, released for my own label " Raw Material ( and residuals) " in 1985. The song " Woman in late " was iincluded in this lp and it is our first song together.
Minimalism & avant gard electronic music with a touch of ethnic music., with :
Giovanni Venosta : piono , synth
Franchino Gabualdi : oboe
Ciaccio DeRossi : violin
S.andro Cerino : sax , clarinet
C.hiara Stasi : flute
Roberto Musci : sampler
The Loa of music
Raw Materials Records (Italy)
1983
The Loa of music is a project inspired to Vodoo Religion; to " Vever " , the magical voodoo paintings and to " Loas ", the dark and magic spirits of Haitian and Brazil voodoo religion.
The Vever is a symbolic design, formed on the ground (in the peristyle) by sprinkling wheatmeal, cornmeal, or some other appropriate powder from the hand, at or before the beginning of a ceremony. Such a design represents a Loa to be invoked, and serves both as a focal point for invocation and a kind of altar for offerings. Several vevers of different Loa may be drawn for one ceremony.
The designs incorporate well-recognized traditional elements, but reflect also the individual intentions and creative skill of the Houngan or Mambo.
In the " Loa of music " I melted musical samples of music recorded on field from different parts of the world ( Afrtica , Near and Far East) and different musical instruments (keyboards, guitar and ethnic musical instruments : suling , tamboura , tabla, calabash , balaphon , kalimbas ).
Like Ukyo-e I played scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes , exotic flora and fauna .
500 different inside paintings by painter artist Luigi Camporelli.