#Fortunato Durutti Marinetti

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7/12/23.

I've heard of both Modern Baseball and Slaughter Beach, Dog (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), but I don't think I ever listened. The common denominator between the two is the music of Jake Ewald.

Too bad I didn't tune in before now. Slaughter Beach, Dog's music scratches my itch for Americana. Think Tom Petty, Son Volt, and The War on Drugs.

But there's more at work here. There's a songwriting/melody structure that reminds me a bit of Zusammen Clark, Fortunato Durutti Marinetti or at times Black Country, New Road (without the orchestration).

Lame-O Records (Philadelphia) is releasing this in late September 2023.

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Track of the day // Fortunato Durutti Marinetti - Clerk Of Oblivion

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Listed: Fortunato Durutti Marinetti

Beginning with 2020’s Desire, a self-released cassette, Toronto-based, Turin-born Daniel Colussi, has explored his “poetic jazz rock” (Colussi’s own apt coinage) across three releases under the moniker Fortunato Durutti Marinetti. The instrumentals flow and waver: now flashes of synthesizer keys or strings; now an inquisitive, lightly warped guitar line — the music floats then jumps but never rushes. His vocals — and lyrics — recall stated 1970s influences like Lou Reed or a spoken-word Robert Wyatt, but also Leonard Cohen or, more contemporarily, Destroyer’s Dan Bejar. Alex Johnson found Colussi’s latest release, Eight Waves In Search Of An Ocean, “engrossing — although not always comfortably…a record that rewards the delayering effect of multiple listens.”

Gary Zhexi Zhang — “The Tourist”

Zhang’s documentary ostensibly tells the story of Ali Sultan Issa, who led Zanzibar’s independence from Britain in 1963. Issa is a totally fascinating and complicated Zelig-like figure who seemed to be present for every revolutionary moment in the middle of the century. He hung out with Castro, Mao and also the CIA. I can’t believe how effectively and delicately Zhang is able to tell what a massive story about empire is — de-colonization, the optimism of mid-twentieth century socialist movements and the brutal 80s neoliberal response. This film also introduced me to the song “Super Snooper”by 1970s Italo disco crew La Bionda.

Annette Peacock — Unsung Heroine

A 12-minute doc on Annette Peacock circa 2000, as she recorded with a string quartet in Oslo for ECM. It’s not the most celebrated era of her career, but An Acrobat’s Heart is an interesting album of smoldering baroque torch songs. There’s great-to-see footage of her walking around Oslo in leather pants and also, it’s great to hear her speaking voice, which has that classic US drawl of an artist who’s lived through decades of chaos.

DJ Voices — Hemlock Nights @ Honcho Campout 2023

When NYC’s DJ Voices came to Toronto last summer my crew and I danced our asses off all night long. It was a good night and I’m glad it happened.

Lou Sheppard with Pamela Hart — Rights Of Passage

A beautiful, smart record that uses the metaphor of a river’s legal right to flow (riparian rights) to talk about property vs. public space, control of and access to resources and forms of enclosure. The record is also about queerness, and how queerness is or is not permitted to exist within particular defined spaces. This record is technically a sister artifact to Lou’s video/sound installation at the Art Gallery of York University, but it works totally well on its own as a gorgeous LP.

Ed Gray — Different Drummer : Elvin Jones

1979 documentary on Elvin Jones — a weird period for him. I think like most people, I know him primarily through his 1960s albums with John Coltrane. This doc has beautiful footage of Elvin hanging out with his family in the backyard as well as him in the studio describing his relationship to the cymbals in terms of different colors — chromesthesia. I also like his sleazy late 70s style — white leather loafers, a mesh shirt and a cigarette dangling as he absolutely shreds on his kit.

Elvis Presley — Unchained Melody (Rapid City June 21, 1977)

An insane document of Elvis in the very final throes of his imperial era. His banter is barely intelligible. Coca Cola cups scattered everywhere. Everyone in the band is sweaty and hairy. Wide bellbottoms all around. A middle-aged stagehand (who Elvis refers to as “son”) awkwardly holds the mic up to Elvis. Rising out of all this confusion, Elvis begins an extremely personal rendition of this Righteous Brothers song. There are pregnant pauses, as if he loses his place in the song, and there is no consistent tempo until the band kicks in, at which point all of Rapid City levitates into outer space. And two months later, Elvis was dead.

The Invisible Committee — The Coming Insurrection

In his Dusted review of my album, Alex Johnson singled out the words and language in my song “Smash Your Head Against The Wall.” When I think back to writing that song, I think of reading The Invisible Committee’s The Coming Insurrection. Their language is totally polemic and fiery and outrageous, but purposely and with intent. Oftentimes they’re playing with that caricatured idea of “the radical left.” Not everyone appreciates this approach: apparently it freaked out US neocon broadcaster Glenn Beck enough that he warned his followers about this book’s evil. My copy has many underlined passages that I return to again and again for guidance and inspiration.

Bruford — Back To The Beginning (Rock Goes To College, March 17th, 1979)

Annette Peacock’s second appearance on this list — too much? In this performance she casually strolls into the Bruford zone to provide some female levity to this otherwise brutally nervous and sweaty prog rock crew. There’s a strong argument that this song sucks because it suffers from that thing of prog/jazz virtuosos trying to play basic heavy rock and failing because they’re too good. But I think it’s awesome, especially when Annette lets her raincoat theatrically drop to the floor to indicate that she has officially assumed control of the proceedings.

Joni Mitchell — In France They Kiss On Main Street (Santa Barbara Bowl, 1979)

I like this era because it captures Joni just as she’s really alienating the majority of her audience by desecrating her folk-rock legacy via fully embracing smoothed out jazz fusion tones. She’s playing with a squad of absolute rippers: Metheny, Pastorius, Lyle Mays, Michael Brecker and Don Alias. Everyone is at the top of their game; everyone is in the zone. I like this ferocious live version of this song better than the studio version.

Tindersticks — The Ballad of Tindersticks (2 Meter Sessions, June 7, 1997)

For me Tindersticks are a deep well of inspiration, to which I can continually return for sustenance, guidance and nourishing refreshment. I love it all: the early baroque albums, the mid period soul albums, the soundtracks, the solo records. I think their last record was phenomenal. They are masters of subtly adjusting their songwriting as a way of unlocking vast new territories to explore. They make it all their own. I pick this particular clip because I like how the entire band is sweating profusely.

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Photos: The Reds, Pinks & Purples at Cloudland

The Reds, Pinks & Purpleswith Maths Balance Volumes and Fortunato Durutti MarinettiCloudland, Minneapolis, MNApril 26th, 2024

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"Clerk of Oblivion" by Fortunato Durutti Marinetti https://ift.tt/PaKCumc

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Fortunato Durutti Marinetti

Lightning On A Sunny Day

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The AM: March 18, 2024

Taking inspiration from The Holdovers, the second hour of this week's AM digs into '60s and '70s singer-songwriter fare, and the music it inspired—including a throwback to Jim O'Rourke's fantastic Simple Songs from 2015. And, of course, your usual mix of Monday morning sounds, from ambient electronics to soul-jazz excursions, folk-rock ditties and unclassifiable but soul-soothing sounds.

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Spotify playlist (missing more than a few tunes this week)

Hour One:

On Air Nick Schofield • Ambient Ensemble

The Going Geotic • The Anchorite

After the Farmer’s Wife Benny Benji • Hitch Your Wagon to a Star

Champagne of Life Rooster37 • Oddly Satisfying

Pomegranate Morgan Greenwood • Mouser Sessions

The Truth the Dead Know El Perro Del Mar • Big Anonymous

Sisters Drum & Lace • Single

For Pauline - Yu Su Remix Michael Vincent Waller • Moments Remixes

Den minsta av segrar 1900 • 1900

E4an två mil Folke Nikanor • Bottenviken

The Crippled Giant The Hylozoists • La Nouvelle Gauche

Hour Two:

Candlepin Bowling Mark Orton • The Holdovers OST

One Last Dance Baby Rose, Badbadnotgood • Slow Burn

The Flowers Fortunato Durutti Marinetti • Eight Waves in Search of An Ocean

Sing Another Song Boys Leonard Cohen • Songs of Love and Hate

Gemini The Brazda Brothers • The Brazda Brothers

Friends With Benefits Jim O'Rourke • Simple Songs

Last Year Jim O'Rourke • Simple Songs

The Light In You Loving • Any Light

Right, Wrong Or Ready Karen Dalton • It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best

Why Do I Cry Margo Guryan • I Ought To Stay Away b/w Why Do I Cry

Just a Moon Bill Fay Group • Tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Fuyo Goe Yuma Abe • Hosono House Cover

Hour Three:

Destejer Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti, Frank Rosaly • MESTIZX

Message from WITCH WITCH • Zango

The Whole World Ethnic Heritage Ensemble • Open Me, A Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit

Stomping Gamay Jahari Massamba Unit (Madlib & Kariem Riggins) • YHWH is LOVE

Mellification Nolan Potter's Nightmare Band • Honey - Tales From the Library of the Occult

Winds of Solace, Pillars of Sand Gal Gracen • Fantasy Gardens

Pangée N NAO • L'eau et les rêves

Is Anything Wrong Ora Cogan • Formless

Sugarplum Hairnet Fila Brazillia • Beatless

Bloom Osmanthus • Between Seasons

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Fortunato Durutti Marinetti - Eight Waves In Search Of An Ocean

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Co-released with Soft Abuse

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we've been dealing with smoke from wildfires here in central virginia for the past few days but i'll be trekking through the haze later tonight for my radio show on wlur from 8pm until midnight. join us live or catch up with last week's show on mixcloud at a more suitable time!

no love for ned on wlur – november 10th, 2023 from 8-10pm

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This is just the beginning - 5 dischi che non vedo l'ora di ascoltare nel 2022

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"feeling of desire" | fortunato durutti marinetti

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3/19/24.

I was at my good friend Stacey's birthday last night, and I met and talked with Kate Dollenmayer, who played violin on this, the latest release from Luke Csehak's project The Lentils (Los Angeles via Battleboro, Vermont).

"Hello Jane Goodall, Are You Listening?" is a bit more orchestral than previous releases. The songs remind me of everything from Arthur Russell to Talking Heads. But, I was struck by how much this reminded me of Fortunato Durutti Marinetti. I can't imagine that Daniel Colussi isn't inspired by Csehak and The Lentils.

Csehak was also part of Happy Jawbone Family Band and Plum Professional.

Feeding Tube Records released a very limited lathe cut of this album, but it is also available on cassette.

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Chris Liberato's 2022 favorites

Photo of Courtney Marie Andrews by Chris Liberato

2022 got off to an unusually slow start for me, as far as connecting with new music. Fortunato Durutti Marinetti’s Memory’s Fool, released in March, was both the first record that grabbed me and the one that I returned to most often. To give you an idea of what it sounds like, imagine if Robert Forster grew up listening to Bill Callahan/Smog, and made a record with Robert Wyatt producing, and you’ll be pretty close. Right up there at the top of my most-played pile, next to Fortunato, is Courtney Marie Andrews’ Loose Future, which didn’t come as much of a surprise to me given how hard I fell for her last one, the stunning Old Flowers. Although, getting the chance to see her and her band perform the Loose Future material live last fall (more on that below) definitely helped seal the deal.

A couple of records that did surprise me, in terms of how much time I ended up spending with them, were the latest Jeanines, Don’t Wait For A Sign: a pure comfort listen whenever I needed it this year, which was often. And Free Time’s Jangle Jargon, which barely made a blip in the indie world but seems like it would appeal to Destroyer fans — the way it evokes that project’s Thief and Streethawk eras — and definitely fans of Twerps, whom they uncannily resemble on standout track “That’s Rare,” and whose former frontman Marty Frawley guest stars on the album. It’s an addicting one. I also want to give a special nod to the Morteza Mahjubi compilation, Selected Improvisations From Golha, Pt. I, even if it might not fully qualify as a 2022 release (it was released digitally and on cassette in 2021, with the vinyl ultimately landing this year). I discovered it via a Steve Gunn tweet in November and it’s since become my go-to morning record — equal parts ghostly and jaunty, improvised piano pieces from 1950s/60s Iranian national radio broadcasts that are sure to get your bones rattling. 

I also saw more live music in 2022 than I have in years, both for obvious Covid-related reasons and because I decided I needed a break from school, and therefore had more time and energy than usual to make it happen. Of the shows I caught, my favorites were Quivers, who made it over from Australia in support of last year’s glorious Golden Doubt, and Courtney Marie Andrews, who played to an adoring, capacity crowd at Cambridge’s Middle East in early November. Something these two acts had in common was an obvious love of playing music with their respective bandmates, which translated into an infectious onstage energy, in both cases, that left me feeling a lot lighter at the end of the night. Picking a favorite single moment is easy: it was the absolutely devastating centerpiece of Andrews’ set, “Near You,” a song I wasn’t familiar with prior to the show but which left a raw, empty feeling in the pit of my stomach that I can still viscerally recall (you know, in a good way). In a very different way, catching Kraftwerk and their synchronized screen show at The Wang Theater ruled, too. As did seeing Berlin resident Ned Collette, not once but twice, after catching Collette fever last Spring when I picked up the reissue of his debut, Jokes & Trials, and subsequently deep diving into his back catalog. 

But that’s enough out of me. So, without further adieu, here are the records I enjoyed the most this year. If we reviewed the record here at Dusted, or I covered it in a different context elsewhere, I made sure to link to it. 

Courtney Marie Andrews — Loose Future (Fat Possum) 

Michael Beach — 2022 EP (Goner) 

Blue Ocean — s/t (Dandy Boy) 

Jackson Reid Briggs — Out Of Line EP (Self-released) 

Thomas Bush — Preludes (Mamma’s Mysterious Jukebox) 

Laura Cannell — Antiphony Of The Trees (Brawl) 

Sarah Mary Chadwick — Flipped It (Kill Rock Stars) 

Chronophage — s/t (PPM) 

Ned Collette — Jokes & Trials (Feeding Tube/Sophomore Lounge) REISSUE 

Loren Connors — Airs (Recital) REISSUE 

Exek — Advertise Here (Castle Face) 

Field School — When Summer Comes (Bobo Integral) 

Fortunato Durutti Marinetti — Memory’s Fool (Soft Abuse/Bobo Integral) 

Free Time — Jangle Jargon (Bedroom Suck) 

The Glass Picture — s/t (Chapter) 

​​Lande Hekt — Romantic / Octopussy (Emotional Response) 

Jeanines — Don’t Wait for a Sign (Slumberland)

 Jeanines — Latest Light / After All (Market Square) 

Alicia Jeanine — Demos (Self-released) 

Kitchen’s Floor — None Of That (Petty Bunco) 

Morteza Mahjubi — Selected Improvisations from Golha, Pt. I (Death Is Not The End) 

The Orchids — Dreaming Kind (Skep Wax) 

The Reds, Pinks and Purples — Summer at Land’s End (Slumberland) 

The Reds, Pinks and Purples — They Only Wanted Your Soul (Slumberland) 

The Stroppies — Levity (Tough Love) 

Ben Woods — Dispeller (Shrimper/Melted Ice Cream/Meritorio)

Chris Liberato

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The AM: March 4, 2024

In honour of her upcoming solo debut, this week we throw back to Beth Gibbons' beautiful 2002 collaboration with Rustin Man, Out of Season—warm and wintry in equal measure, so it's perfect for another grey day.Plus '70s Dutch prog, new jazz-infused sounds from Prefuse 73 and Madlib, an unexpected Bill Withers cover, and other low-key sounds for a gloomy Monday morning.

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Spotify playlist

Hour One:

To Believe the World Musebots & Arne Eigenfeldt • A Walk to Meryton

New Brighton Group Listening • Walks

Where I can be as big as the Sun India Gailey, featuring Thanya Iyer • Problematica

Apogamy Otto Benson • Songs Before Bed

A Lord Without Jewels Prefuse 73 • New Strategies For Modern Crime Volume 1

Anointed Soul Madlib, Karriem Riggins • YHWH is LOVE

Lost in the Fog Rooster37 • In Deep Water

Old But New Minor Sine Project • Until Next Time

Waverhouse Lies Moat Bells • Scroll Through the Park

Skylarks Hidden Orchestra • To Dream is to Forget

Hour Two:

Don't Forget You're Mine Lætitia Sadier • Rooting for Love

L’île aux bleuets Bibi Club • Feu de garde

Curling Tara Jane O'Neil • The Cool Cloud of Okayness

Olive Steven R. Smith • Olive

Spoons for the World ROY • Spoons for the World

Romance Beth Gibbons, Rustin Man • Out of Season

Tom the Model Beth Gibbons, Rustin Man • Out of Season

People (Ah Yeah) Paranoid London, featuring Bobby Gillespie • Arseholes, Liars, and Electronic Pioneers

Life Forms The Natural Yogurt Band • Spores

Pulsars and Magnetars Crystal Canyon • Stars and Distant Light

I Still Believe in Love (pt. 1 & 2) Crystal Eyes • The Sweetness Restored

Hour Three:

Gloaming Way Mikaela Davis, Circles Around the Sun • After Sunrise

Unspoken is the Word Finch • Galleons of Passion

Consistent Effort Dog Unit • At Home

Running Time Retep Folo, Dorothy Moskowitz • The Afterlife

Smash Your Head Against the Wall Fortunato Durutti Marinetti • Eight Waves in Search of An Ocean

Gualala Mac DeMarco • Five Easy Hot Dogs

Perdidos en Andrómeda Radiotrónica, GUTINHO • De otro mundo

Unthink the Thinkable Symphony Orchestra • Radiant Music

Do You Know? Victrix • I Saw Me EP

Heartbreak Road Bullion • Single

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6/9/23.

deine Mutti (Italy, Finland) are releasing "Quiet Luxury" hot on the heels of one of my favorite releases this year - "Un'altra Estate". As I said a few months this has a definite Fortunato Durutti Marinetti feel.

This release has a bit more of a 1980s John Hughes soundtrack feel - think "Pretty In Pink" by The Psychedelic Furs. The languid guitars still remind me of later-era Pastels.

This is self-released.

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1/18/24.

Thee Conductor is the vehicle for the work and collaborations of Jason Butler (Austin, Texas). He's played in various bands over the years, but it seems like Thee Conductor is a way for him to work with collaborators such as Bonnie Prince Billy, A. Sinclair and Jana Horn. "Cotton Tornado" was the debut of Thee Conductor, but Butler has continued the project with releases in 2021 and a new album next month.

It's hard not to see connections to the aforementioned artists since their contributions are so up front (vocals). But I also hear sounds I associate with Wilco and the lesser known Fortunato Durutti Marinetti.

"Cotton Tornado" was released by SixGunLover. There appears to be a cassette release of "Spirit of a Ghost" available on Perpetual Doom.