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𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗼 𝗙𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶 & 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗮 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶 

"𝑙ʼ𝑒𝑏𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑧𝑧𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑓𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑎̀"  

l'ebbrezza delle grandi profondità by Francesco Fonassi & Marta Salogni

"lʼebbrezza delle grandi profondità" is the outcome from the first collaboration between sonic artist Francesco Fonassi and producer Marta Salogni. 

Recorded live at Spettro (Brescia, Italy) in September 2021 during a ‘tape mazeʼ live performance, the ten tracks take us in a cinematic journey towards the oceanic forests explored and described by Jacques-Yves Cousteauʼs ‘The Silent Worldʼ. 

The inebriation of being underwater is at the epicentre of a drifting sonic narrative where the listener is invited to get lost in. The pallet of sounds reflects both the marine landscapes and the altered state of mind that deep diving induces. 

 An exploration and a homage to a world where silence and wander reigns.

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𝗩𝗜𝗧𝗔 𝗔𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗘 𝗘 𝗥𝗜𝗩𝗢𝗟𝗨𝗭𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗘

debutta domani e dopodomani a Romaeuropa Festival / 𝑀𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑖𝑜/𝑇𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑟𝑜1, 𝑅𝑜𝑚𝑎

18.11.2022 / h 21:00

19.11.2022 / h 21.00 

Uno spettacolo di e con Paola Di Mitri con la creazione cinematografica di Davide Crudetti, musiche originali Gaspare Sammartano, produzione Cranpi.

Muovendosi in una cartografia intima fatta di ricordi, filmini di famiglia e vecchie fotografie, la regista Paola Di Mitri ricostruisce la sua storia famigliare per trovare risposta ad una ferita personale che si sovrappone e si perde nelle cartografie di chi abita oggi Taranto. La storia personale lascia spazio alla dimensione collettiva per ridisegnare una geografia emotiva, sensoriale, storica e urbanistica di Taranto. Città cancellata e riscritta più volte, pensata per essere volano del Sud, ma che da sempre non è che campo di battaglia operaio, sfruttamento della forza lavoro, disastro ambientale, emergenza sanitaria, simbolo di una situazione meridionale mai risolta.

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Marco Paltrinieri got a new work out! "Untitled (an anecdote)" is a 19 minute long piece commissioned for the 2022 edition of Radiophrenia, broadcasted from Glasgow last February. Now, together with Marco, we decided to make it downloadable for free (music + words) via Canti Magnetici website. Untitled (an anecdote) is the last - at least for now - of a series of works centred on spoken words and storytelling started in 2020 with Marco Paltrinieri's album “The Weaver”. New stuff is on its way.Along with Radiophrenia (Mark Vernon and Barry Burns), we would like to thank Tist Situations for hosting this project live last year while still in progress, Mirko Smerdel for the artwork and Renato Grieco for the impeccable master.

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Devid Ciampalini plays SORGENTE 

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The pre-order of two new canti Magnetici albums is now online (date release 9th February 2021, cd and digital).

All pre orders comes with a secret extra album.

Sammartano - WATERFRONT CD album - Canto 29

WATERFRONT by Sammartano

The failure of the Waterfront Project. A social, architectural and landscape intervention planned for years as a redevelopment of the coastal stretch and as a new connection between the port and the city. After the collapse of the bridges, the Artificial Island began to move to reach its two sister islands facing the city. Since then, things have definitely fallen apart. The harbor sirens mourn the death of another son of the two seas and the last gangs skirt the wall that separates the city from the Military Arsenal ruins to admire the fluorescent light of the infected green area, the colors of new plants and the voices of birds and cetaceans. This is how these places and their natural inhabitants, humans and not, have reorganized their own spaces and lives by themselves, regaining their independence and autonomy, rejecting any intervention imposed from outside. It’s from these areas of unease and marginalization that new voices can develop, in a sort of cultural unconscious that belongs to the new, weird and eccentric manifestations of the Nature. Sammartano plays the post-catastrophe and its peaceful atmosphere. Continuing to explore the possibilities of his minimal junked equipment, he puts together fragments of disintegrated music. The sound is a waste, son of chaos and randomness. it's accumulated, it's piled up and always in balance, tending to collapse. This time, however, it seems to be lulling you into warm marine radiations. Taranto is a city that seems to come out from China Mieville’s Bas Lag. Waterfront is the inaugural chant of its new dark exotic era. "The Municipality of Taranto was declared bankrupt effective 31 December 2005, having accrued liabilities of €637 million. This was one of the biggest financial crises which has ever hit a municipality. The Full Years were Taranto's golden age, when the city had achieved its greatest advances in science, technology, and thaumaturgy. Decline set in during the late 21th century, however, and some of this knowledge was lost. Desperate to prove that the golden age was not at an end, Taranto constructed a massive ship, the largest in the world at that time, intended to be the pinnacle of Taranto industry. The Rompighiaccio Destiny was a boondoggle, however, suffering from several design flaws. It was briefly converted into an ineffectual warship during the Pirate Wars, and ended up quietly "sinking" a few years later". taken from "The Full Years: Cronicles from a Submerged City"

Devid Ciampalini - Sorgente CD album - Canto 28

Sorgente by Devid Ciampalini

Sorgente is the first solo album by the Italian Maestro Devid Ciampalini. Recorded in a period of isolation spent in Garfagnana, a geographical and historical area in Tuscany, between the Apuan Alps and the main chain of the Tuscan Emilian Apennines, Sorgente reflects the nature of his genesis and the shapeless character of the watercourses which inspired it. On the footsteps of itineraries traveled in youth, Devid opens a dialogue between the natural elements of these unspoiled landscapes and the analog equipment used for processing and revealing what captured during the recordings sessions. The electronic bleep blops of these strange and lively compositions have something that recalls the blossoming mushrooms, the vivid green of the moss that springs up on the stones, the smells of the undergrowth, the movements of all the micro fauna that lives in the so called Alta Valle del Serchio and something of the gentle and bizarre character of Devid himself. As the well-known Italian metaphonist Marcello Bacci, also from Tuscany, Devid seems to research something of secret and hidden into the sounds he’s playing with. Surrounded by tape recorders, old synthesizers, sonorous objects and strange self-made stuff, Devid moves like a medium in the middle of his experience, filtering and mixing, and then redistributing sound bubbles in the attempt of blending natural phenomena and electronica into new elements, sometimes more abstract, sometimes more concrete. Recording devices provide a chance of spirit communication and try to connect us to this different plane of reality. The sound, after switching to a reel-to-reel tape recorder, and after being randomly cut and pasted, reveals itself completely at about ear level as an ecologically shimmering sound system. 

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STRANI FIORI: Italian freak folk, psych and drone music 2005 - 2010

“My Spectre around me night and day Like a wild beast guards my way; My Emanation far within Weeps incessantly for my sin”

William Blake

Un sottobosco musicale sparso per tutta la penisola, solo occasionalmente captato dalle antenne di ascoltatori e stampa specializzata, dedito ad esplorazioni che sbocciano in una sorta di folk sgangherato, ulteriormente imbastardito da contaminazioni con il free jazz, la psichedelia, il noise, la musica cosmica e le forme più primitive e naif dell’elettronica: pedali rotti, mixer in feedback ed altre diavolerie che sul palco, o meglio per terra, più che un set-up sembrano disegnare un cerchio magico.

E’ dalle frange più intransigenti del rumore che, inaspettatamente, spuntano questi strimpellatori cosmici che all’armamentario d’ordinanza del noiser cominciano ad affiancare strumenti acustici di ogni tipo, piccole percussioni, harmonium, flauti, per mettere in scena la loro personalissima versione sonora, liquefatta in oceani di delay, riverberi e droni, di The Wicker Man. 

Sviluppatosi attorno a piattaforme di condivisione come Soulseek, ma anche su Myspace e tra i blog di appassionati, questo mondo parallelo all’allora scena underground italiana (ripiegata su post rock, noise rock ed elettronica da laptop) trova il suo rifugio naturale in quel calderone ipertrofico di produzioni in cdr, cassetta ed altri formati più o meno obsoleti che, sulla scia di quel movimento ribattezzato da Devid Keenan New Weird America, è in espansione anche in Europa con piccoli avamposti un pò ovunque.

Un fiume sotterraneo che musicalmente ingloba tutto quello che può esserci fra i Cromagnon e The Incredible String Band, giusto per farla breve. Una musica totale ma totalmente folle. Spirituale, vitale, nuova ma con radici antiche, quasi ancestrali. In bilico fra meditazioni elettroniche e danze infernali, dedita alla ricerca di un rapporto più diretto e istintivo con il mondo Naturale, da realizzarsi su un piano mistico, più terreno o cosmico. 

Un suono libero e senza compromessi, tanto nei contenuti quanto nel modo di veicolarli, rafforzato da principi che vanno oltre il discorso musicale. Dischi “stampati” in tirature limitatissime, con packaging spartani (fotocopie in bustina di plastica e cd masterizzati) o rifiniti come preziosi e fragili oggetti di artigianato, spesso realizzati con materiale di recupero. Registrazioni in “studi” improvvisati, strumentazione di fortuna, sessioni all’aperto, nessuna promozione, uffici stampa o agenzie di booking. Pochissimi mezzi ma una distribuzione capillare assicurata praticamente in tutto il mondo dagli scambi fra etichette, musicisti e negozi specializzati (vale la pena ricordare Volcanic Tongue, Aquarius Records, Echo Curio e la webzine Foxy Digitalis, probabilmente il vero riferimento per l’intera comunità). Una diffusione in tempo reale, quando ancora l’ascolto e le piattaforme di streaming non erano così popolari, resa possibile dal lavoro instancabile e scrupoloso delle centinaia di blogger, veri e propri diggers che alla disamina appassionata di dischi scovati nei meandri del web, affiancavano gli immancabili link a mediafire o megaupload per scaricarne le tracce. Che io ricordi, nessuno ha mai avuto nulla da ridire. 

Anche i concerti erano più che altro happening auto-organizzati e clandestini, senza palco e distanza fra musicisti e pubblico (?). Niente di più lontano dalla classica idea di band che esegue, calata nella sua parte, il proprio repertorio. Pochissime in realtà le occasioni di suonare qui in Italia, più frequenti i tour e le presenze nei festival all’estero.

Centinaia i dischi nei cataloghi delle altrettanto numerose etichette, dalla vita più o meno breve. Digitalis, Foxglove, Ruralfaune, Faunasabbatha, Ikuisuus, Student of Decay, Rusted Rail, Stunned, Last Visible Dog, 267 Lattajjaa, New American Folk Hero, Fire Museum, Singing Knives…Label che hanno forse riconosciuto negli strani vagiti di questa combriccola weird tutta italiana, lo spirito avventuroso di artisti i cui lavori cominciavano a riaffiorare online (il boom delle ristampe sarebbe esploso solo qualche anno più tardi): Battiato, Claudio Rocchi, Lino Capra Vaccina, Aktuala, Prima Materia, Futuro Antico, Roberto Donnini, Luciano Cilio. Riferimenti non così scontati per ragazzi attorno ai 20, 25 anni che in fondo, senza neanche troppa ingenuità, ma anzi in maniera determinata e con dedizione, cercavano di raccogliere il testimone proprio di quelle esperienze. 

A sua volta, quasi ogni musicista qui in Italia contribuiva alla “diffusione del verbo” con la sua personale etichetta, consolidando in questo modo il proprio ruolo all’interno della rete: Centre of Wood, Palustre, Akoustic Desease, Troglosound, Monstres Par Excès, Lonktaar, Dreamsheep. E poi compilation fiume, dischi condivisi, collaborazioni a distanza e nuovi progetti (consiglio quantomeno il recupero di Pulga e Wondrous Horse). 

Non tutto è sempre riuscito perfettamente, ma non mancano le gemme ed anche qualche punta di diamante (Heavy Electronic Pacific Rock di un giovanissimo Valerio Cosi è un piccolo miracolo di minimalismo con influenze kraut). La critica ancora sonnecchiava ma una piccola roccaforte la avevamo anche qui: il mitico blog Pillaloo. 

Da questo calderone informe provengono alcuni degli artisti oggi riferimento della musica elettronica internazionale (Oneohtrix Point Never, Félicia Atkinson, Bill Kouligas, fondatore della PAN…); al tempo condividere con loro compilation, split o concerti era cosa normalissima. E’ però nei nomi scomparsi dai radar e che hanno fatto perdere le proprie tracce che si nasconde la vera anima di questo movimento. Figure che hanno vinto (vediamola da questa angolazione) la necessità di apparire, di esserci e produrre ad ogni costo. Che per qualche ragione o scelta meditata, hanno deciso di scomparire o di muoversi ai margini, coltivando la discrezione di chi aspetta di essere scovato. Mi ritrovo così ad immaginare Eyes Like Saucers ancora in giro per il deserto con il suo furgoncino (dopo la scomparsa del suo amato compagno, il cane Parmalee) o Harappian Night Recordings insistere nel torturare canzoni tradizionali del sud-est asiatico dopo una giornata di lavoro in ufficio a Londra. E riascolto album semi-dimenticati pensando a quante vie di fuga trasversali, segrete ed imprevedibili possa prendere il suono.

Attorno alla fine degli anni dieci qualcosa comincia a cambiare. Sommersa dalla spropositata quantità di suoni e informazioni della rete, questa stessa comunità mondiale è sul punto di immergersi in una soffice nuvola di ricordi, video tremolanti, triangoli, suoni esotici e sintetizzatori anni 80. Prenderà piede una forma di nostalgia, anche qui in Italia, con nuovi suoni, nomi, progetti ed anche una migliore copertura mediatica, ma questa è un’altra storia.

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Tracklist:

Maurizio Abate - Untitled 2 (Mystic Strings cdr album, Troglosound 2007)

Alberorovesciato - Barefooted Adventures In The Ring Snake's Territory, Marshy (Tigers On Acid In The Hell Of The Brushwood, cd album, Singing Knives 2009)

Caligine - Malia di Luglio (Minimalia, Vol. 2 cdr mini album, Monstres Par Excès 2009)

Neokarma Jooklo Trio - Solar Exodus Part II (Solar Vision LP, Qbico 2007)

Golden Cup - Ursula Maior (Kaleidopea casette C20, Digitalis Limited 2009)

Harps Of Fuchsia Kalmia - Frammenti Di Una Sconfitta Sulla Strada Di Casa (In Memory Of Luciano Cilio) (Burning With Your Old Joy In The Terminal Sun cd album, Ikuisuus 2009)

Donato Epiro - Rubisco Rossa (Unreleased track 2007)

We Wait for the Snow - Tribute (Split with Family Battle Snake cdr, Centre of Wood 2008)

Estasy - Tree of Dead (Estasy cdr album, Ikuisuus 2008)

Dona Ferentes - Peligros (Untitled, cdr album, Lonktaar 2010)

Suburban Howl - Untitled (Psychic Basement, self released cassette 2008)

Fabio Orsi & Valerio Cosi - We Could For Hours: Part One (We Could For Hours, cd album, A Silent Place 2008)

ThrouRoof - (…)Sinking (It's Raining Over Memory At 7 P.M. cdr album, Ruralfaune 2007)

ENGLISH VERSION HERE

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Canti Magnetici archive

Andrea sent us some photos shot about 5 years ago when we all lived in the Apulia region, even if in three different cities. We had our meetings inside an old Trullo in Ostuni, where Andrea lived for about an year. This is how Canti Magnetici was born. We spent our time talking about music, planning what the label would be, assembling tapes and cooking. Then we used to explore some of our favorite places all around. What a wonderful days, despite some difficulties :-)

The Trullo in Ostuni (and our friend Danilo)

La Palude del Capitano (The Captain's Swamp) in Frascone.

Our favorite natural swimming pool (Donato and Giulia)

Annalisa tries a dip.

A statue of the Ezechiele Leandro’s Santuario della Pazienza (San Cesario di Lecce).

Occhibelli, recently mother, and a few days old Ombretta.

Prickly Pears in Ostuni.

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Invisibilia Editions

Andrea Penso, originally part of the Canti Magnetici label team, musician, guiding spirit and longtime friend, is now launching his own label, Invisibilia Editions. The first release, after the one shared with the Canti Magnetici catalogue, is the debut album of the Italian singer Maria Valentina Chirico, “Folk Tapes” a collection of dreamy and ambient-folk songs.

Check here: https://invisibilia.bandcamp.com

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Analogica Festival 2020

Sammartano will take part in the new edition of ANALOGICA Festival. He will present his new LP “Waterfront”, out in January 2021 on Canti Magnetici, performing a live-streaming concert on Saturday 12th December.

https://www.analogica.org/sammartano.html

ANALOGICA is a platform for the investigation and dissemination of analog practices in visual and sonic experiments. It is also a festival started in 2011 in Rome and now taking place during the last week-end of November in Bolzano, Italy.

ANALOGICA an online event scheduled for three weekends in December, fits the current times. Since in-person screenings and performances are not allowed, ANALOGICA 10 will be exclusively live-streamed, thus allowing for a safe, collective event. To join the 10th edition programming, just visit the ANALOGICA website. The Home Page will function as a screen, as well as a “movie theatre”. Films will be screened only once per day, as in all standard editions of Analogica. Reruns will be available on the following day. As always, access is free. ANALOGICA invites you to screenings, live sonic experiments, super8-focused events, and found footage archives. Paradoxically, this year’s Festival will be completely digital. 

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Mare Grosso x MicroTV

MARE GROSSO is a Youtube playlist I made for Microtelevision, an Artetetra’s benefit project for Standards Studio in Milan.

I've been having the same dream for years: very high waves, floods, tsunamis, and I run away to save myself (I always succeed in it). It all starts suddenly as I sit quietly and watch the sea from the beach. The first wave gets bigger and bigger and then the disaster happens. Some psychologists friends of mine say that these kinds of dreams are related to kidney problems and in fact I suffer from renal colic. Anyway, I started having this obsession with videos of ships in the middle of storm. So, this is my playlist.

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https://www.standardstudio.it/microtv

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Sibiliana

Sibiliana is now available for streaming and download from Gaspare bc page

from the Radio Papesse Archive, this track was selected for Suden Radio #3, February 2019.

radiopapesse.org/en/archive/sonora/sibiliana

“Sibiliana is a work by italian artist and musician Gaspare Sammartano who uses AM transmissions captured on the western coast of Sicily and field recordings took on the same shore nearby Trapani. By exploring the radio frequencies, he reflects on ideas of connection, imagination, migration, transnationality and porosity, in a land where integration between different ethnicities and cultures has always been very fruitful.

The connection between Tunisia and Trapani is a fundamental piece of the history of this land: from the early ‘70s, Mazara has been welcoming families of Tunisians, that slowly created the Casbah in the historical Centre of the city (which - by the way - during the Middle Ages was populated by Arabs).

The Tunisians who landed found a job on big fishing boats, learning and keeping alive the art of fishing. A tradition that has always been symbol of the city. Many others became street vendors, with different, generally obsolete, electronic devices, tiny radios that they use to intercept radio transmissions from their home land: a news bulletin, a song, a pray.

Radio frequencies cross borders and to tune-in in the heart of the Mediterranean means to be able to listen to transmissions coming from all over the place. Listening to radio may become an act of resistance, a way to feel home away from home”.

Sibiliana by SAMMARTANO

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Choral Music

I majored in music, and I love to sing, choral singing in particular. So when I was trying to think about what this character would do, I said to myself, "If I had 20 bodies, what would I do?" My first thought was, "I would totally sing choral music all by myself." Ann Leckie