releases
Sea Cathedrals
Enrico Coniglio feat. M.P. Cecchinato & M. Liverani - Silentes 2010
A dark ambient album dedicated to the great heritage of the coastal industrial archeology of Porto Marghera, made of real "sea cathedrals" for the most in a state of abandon, as monuments of a civilization today towards the sunset.
The textures of the whole album are built from field recordings made on site, then digitally manipulated and transformed into dark drones in constant motion. Metal squeals, crackles, deep noises widely reverberated are embellished with soft guitar and synthesizer pads, occasional backing vocals, rubbing of singing bowls, various kinds of bells and ethereal chimes of crystals. The work involves the Florentine guitarist Massimo Liverani and the Venetian musician Manuel Posadas Cecchinato, author, among other things, of the beautiful artwork.
"Sea Cathedrals" is another chapter in the story of the Venice B side, which tells of the wanderings of a young loner stalker looking for his unresolved desires, on the background of a world in ruins.
dyanMU
Enrico Coniglio & Elisa Marzorati - Psychonavigation Records 2008
Ambient music, swallows not only the world with its noise but also silence with its thought, the smallest meditation. It feels like having vacation from everything. Perhaps it realizes the extreme desire: “deadalive”. (Franco Marzorati, September 2006).
In Summer 2006 begun the “dyanMU” project, with Enrico Coniglio and Elisa Marzorati, as a meeting between two artists coming from different experiences. Enrico Coniglio presents his second album on Irish label Psychonavigation Records. A slight change of style from the Italian producers critically acclaimed previous work ‘Areavirus Topofonie Volume 1’. This time around in between Coniglio’s abstract ambient soundscapes were greeted by short piano pieces from the talented musician Elisa Marzorati. The album also boasts a sample from the legendary producer Robert Fripp.
Thanks to Rena Jones, and very special thanks to Discipline Global Mobile for the sample used on the track "timepiece", taken from "The Outher Darkness" performed by Robert Fripp (The Gates Of Paradise, 1997).
AREAVIRUS - topofonie vol.1
Enrico Coniglio - Psychonavigation Records 2007
The album is inspired by the ambience in Venice lagoon. You could say it sounds like a night trip on a mysterious boat, or a flight over a land in the balance between waters and grounds, as a unique landscape running the risk to be jeopardized by the contemporary urban and industry development…
The kind of sounds in the work are rich, pieces never static but almost narrative, varied in drone and textures; arpeggio loops rarely sustained by some glitchy rhythmic patterns, sweet naive and distant melody made by saxes or a brilliant piano; dense and not ever conciliating atmospheres, but sensitive in the forms and absolutely inclined to melancholy.
Musicians: Enrico Coniglio: guitars, synthesizers, loops, sampling & programming; Guido Marzorati: piano and keyboards; Nicola Alesini: popular clarinet; Piero Bittolo Bon: bass clarinet; Hans-Joachim Roedelius: piano; Massimo Liverani: air synth, loops; Arve Henriksen: trumpet.
Grammatologia
Enrico Coniglio - Velut Luna 2002
During the first 2002 started the idea of 'Grammatologia', for the label Velut Luna, Padova (Italy), in order to investigate the different souls of the ambient music, referring to the venetian lagoon context. In the album are involved also the keyboard and piano player Guido Marzorati, the saxophonist Marco Strano and the trumpeter Kyle Gregory, that have all imprinted new extraordinary sounds to the songs.
Musicians: Enrico Coniglio: guitars, e-bow, digital delay, drum and computer programming; Guido Marzorati: Korg MS-20, digital keyboards, acoustic piano. Marco Strano: saxophone soprano and contralto; Kyle Gregory: trumpet, flugelhorn.
digital downloads and podcasts
Late Night Broadcast
various artist - Laverna net 2010
The net label Laverna.net is releasing its new compilation Late Night Broadcast to be freely distributed as digital download. Enrico is partecipating with the track "Glaciers are coming closer" and "Orange devotion" in collaboration with the great Gigi Masin.
Enjoy!
SPIRE | Enrico Coniglio
Enrico Coniglio - Songs from ruined days - 45:14 - 320 kbps
The present release by the Touch label's SPIRE, is a long-drone track mostly based on recordings made in Porto Marghera, a big industrial coastal area on the mainland of Venice, Italy (Winter 2009), now largely on disposal and afflicted by a severe economic and environmental crisis.
Part of this work was originally used for a sound work in the "Antares" pavilion of VEGA Park (VEnice GAteway for science and technology) for a photography exhibition as a part of the project "Le nuove vie di Porto Marghera".
Other field recordings were made in Vienna, Austria (December 2009), in an attempt to explore the sacral spaces of the city. 'Song from ruined days' is a mix of industrial and liturgical soundscape, a brief journey in the space of a full desolation.
All field recordings were made using Soundman Binaural stereo microphone head-set. Photos by Tommy Meduri.
Glacial lagoon | Enrico Coniglio
Enrico Coniglio - Laverna net label 2009
A free download Ep for the italian Laverna.net label dedicated to an imaginary glacial venetian lagoon.
Tracklist: 1. coldmill 2. glacial lagoon 3. mantilla
Instruments: guitars, Farfisa MicrOrgan, hydrophone, binaural stereo mic, computer programming, sampling.
CRÓNICASTER | Enrico Coniglio
Enrico Coniglio - Abibes - 12:11 - 192 kbps
Based on a mix of field-recordings, guitar-synth drones and a touch of digital post-production"ABIBES" (12'11"). Check it out at the number 032 of Crónicaster.
"ABIBES" is the name of an ex coastal depot of GPL, which is classified as "high-risk" for the environment, in Porto Maghera, a big industrial site on the outskirts of the lagoon of Venice (Italy).
Touch Radio 30 | Enrico Coniglio
Enrico Coniglio - Sapientumsuperacquis - 23:13 - 192 kbps
As part of an ongoing series of recordings of unusual sounds of the Venice lagoon, these tracks were made on 29th April 2008 at 2100 in a night-depot of boats of the public transport service at “Riva dei Schiavoni”, not far from San Marco square.
Headphones are recommended. Recorded 24/96, with binaural stereo mic.
"Sapientum super acquis" is the title attribuited to the "Magistrato alle acque" of the Serenissima Venetian Republic, an organ istituited on 1501 by the "Council of ten", that had the job of keeping safe the delicate natural/artificial balance of the lagoon, and looking after the "health" of the water.
Today the water is mostly polluted because of Porto Marghera, one of the biggest industrial areas in the whole Europe.
collaboration projects
Out & About
HERION (E. Errante, E. Coniglio, E. Marzorati) - Hypnos 2010
Coming soon.
Cloudlands
AQUA DORSA (Enrico Coniglio/Oophoi) - Glacial Movements 2009
Aquadorsa is a new musical Italian ambient project formed by Enrico Coniglio and Oophoi. Their first work “Cloudlands” is a perfect mix of glitch, classical and orchestral glacial ambient soundscape.
Tracklist: 1. A Pillow of Clouds (5.22) 2. Daylight Fading Into Evening Silence (5.05) 3. The Pond Reflected Her Smile (9.13) 4. Zero Gravity (10.59) 5. Syhan (12.11) 6. Alone in the Rising Fog (18.31) 7. Night of Trembling Stars (06.05).
Enrico Coniglio: guitars, synthesizers, programming & sampling.
Gianluigi Gasparetti: synthesizers, piano, percussions, waterphone, chimes, singing bowls, theremin, programming & sampling.
Take a look on the AQUA DORSA reviews on glacialmovements.com
compilations
Late Night Broadcast
various artist - Laverna net 2010
The net label Laverna.net is releasing its new compilation Late Night Broadcast to be freely distributed as digital download. Enrico is partecipating with the track "Glaciers are coming closer" and "Orange devotion" in collaboration with the great Gigi Masin.
Enjoy!
CRÓNICA L
various artist - Crónica electronica 2010
Crónica is publishing its 50th release, and celebrating it with a new compilation CD Crónica L to be freely distributed to all the subscribers of the Neural magazine. Enrico Coniglio and Janek Schaefer are partecipating with the track "Unfurling Fugue".
See also here.
Zaum Vol. 1
various artist - Psychonavigation records 2009
A selection of Italian ambient works, specifically composed for the release, compiled by Enrico Coniglio and Emanuele Errante. The album features music from internationally much-admired artists such as Netherworld (Glacial Movements label owner), Oophoi, Arlo Bigazzi (Materiali Sonori label), Alturo Stalteri, Luca Formentini, Illàchime quartet, Con_cetta, as well as other brilliant unreleased artists.
This is a stunning mix of beat & non-beat pure ambient tunes that shift between isolationist & glacial atmospheres; see at Psychonavigation Records.
