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BECUZZI, GIANLUCA & FABIO ORSI - The Stones know everything

Format: do-CD Label & Cat.Number: Digitalis 038 Release Year: 2007 Note: Italian collaboration-work of the KINETIX-mastermind BECUZZI with FABIO ORSI (both know from SMALL VOICES releases), working with "old keyboards, guitars & laptop", creating a very mellow & smooth kind of electronic ambience.. Price (incl. 19% VAT): €18.50 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info Italian collaboration-work of the KINETIX-mastermind BECUZZI with FABIO ORSI (both know from SMALL VOICES releases), working with "old keyboards, guitars & laptop", creating a very mellow & smooth kind of electronic ambience, soft weird sounds derived from field recordings appear in repetitive patterns, the whole has a more improvisational feel to it, they let it flow, its not really "outcomposed"... "Anything that can be said about this double CD release can also be said about the roar of a rushing stream or the sound of snow falling on a clear night. These two sound artisans have crafted so perfect an auditory environment that it is completely devoid of artifice or noticeable flaw. It is a field of glass on top of a quiet lake. To some, this might sound dull. To others, it might strike you as meditation music for your yoga class. To all of you, all I can suggest is listening to this journey into sound and be prepared to come out the other side changed by what you've experienced. Fresh from his spectacular 3” cd-r on Foxglove and another release for A Silent Place, Naples’ Fabio Orsi partners here with sound artisan Gianluca Becuzzi. Orsi is another young and unexpected talent coming through the new Italian pipeline. "The Stones Know Everything" is the second release of his sprawling trilogy with Becuzzi (the first CD, "Muddy Speaking Ghosts Through My Machines," appeared on A Silent Place in late 2006). Gianluca has been around for the better part of two decades making music under the monikers Kinetix, Limbo, and others, but his work with wunderkind Orsi opens a new chapter in his impressive body of work. Crafting something this immense puts these two musicians into the realm of Stars of the Lid, Birchville Cat Motel and Growing, creating several intense worlds of ambient splendor, juxtaposing the sounds of everyday life with jetstreams of microtones and pulses of audible light. And they handle this enormous task with the care and precision of a watchmaker or a surgeon, but also with the ears of an obvious fan of sound." [label info] "Two Italian artists whom we first met from their releases on Small Voices, now team up for a double CD. Fabio Orsi released a great LP called 'Osci' (see Vital Weekly 512) which was produced by Kinetix, which happens to be the name used by Gianluca Becuzzi. Slow music based on field recordings of a highly obscure nature, with some folk (read: guitar) like elements. Back then it was a unclear as to did and which part Becuzzi had in the final result. Now it's perhaps a bit clearer: both use 'old keyboards, guitars and laptop'. It's also less obscure than the Orsi LP, and further away from much of Kinetix material. Both music and cover reminded me strongly of Stars Of The Lid. The same typography on the cover, but also similar slow music, and forty-five minutes per CD. Sounds only develop at a slow rate, endless sustain coming from the sound effects, moving slow hum about. Music of a highly ambient nature, even when some elements seem odd, such as the machine like sounds of 'Blue Drones For A Ballad (Part Two)'. Now that Stars Of The Lid may seem to have vanished (in whatever guise actually, or perhaps contemplating a comeback?), this is a rather good substitute of a more than excellent nature." [FdW / Vital Weekly] www.digitalisindustries.com