OUT NOW: Enrico Coniglio & Giulio Aldinucci “Stalking The Elusive” – CD/DL – Dronarivm 2020

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Officially out now: Enrico Coniglio & Giulio Aldinucci – ‘Stalking the Elusive’ digital e limited edition CD is out now on Dronarivm!

This album was conceived in Moscow during the Spring of 2018, when Dmitry Vasilyev organized the concert of Enrico Coniglio and Giulio Aldinucci at дом – Dom Cultural Centre. The album reflects the feelings of some very intensive days made of exchanges of ideas with a multitude of people involved in music (including Dmitry Taldykin of Dronarivm) and moments spent in isolated places out of the metropolis, like a forest not far from an army shooting range.

In this album, the two musicians wave together memories of an immutable past and questions about the present, giving birth to a sort of a requiem overflowing with lyricism. This music enlighten the dawn of a future that now appears more uncertain than ever, with frozen intensity and dramatic strength. As a message entrusted to the stars, it leaves as wondering if we can still change the course of events.

Cover photo by Giulio Aldinucci
Mastered by Alexandr Vatagin

OUT NOW: Enrico coniglio “TEREDO Navalis” – CD/DL – Gruenrekorder 2020

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I’m extremely delighted to announce the release of my new solo album “TEREDO Navalis” for the amazing Gruenrekorder label.

This work represents a further step into my on-going research on the Venetian Lagoon. I was interested to keep an ecological perspective while focussing on a precise aesthetic. In fact, I considered field-recording practice as a tool for critically investigating the territory. The album is based on sounds recorded via electromagnetic sensors, binaural microphones, hydrophones, contact and condenser microphones. It combines compositions where the sound of water, in itself, is almost left behind. All sounds where gathered during night time in the north side of the lagoon, between the islands of Murano, Burano, Sant’Erasmo and their surrounding sandbanks. Here it is possible to find, on the one hand, aquatic spawning grounds for crabbers, high-tide roosts for gulls and native terns; on the other, boats for the public transportation are moving along the main navigation channels. The result is not a sonic postcard, rather a research process documenting through sounds those marginal areas of the lagoon facing a fragile balance between natural environment and man-made actions.

Mastering by M. Carvalhais
Photographs courtesy of D. Gagliano

Soundscapes Room #4 – Enrico Coniglio – Streaming

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“Teredo Navalis live tracks. Continuano le peregrinazioni lagunari di Enrico Coniglio con un nuovo capitolo che esplora le aree liminali della laguna nord di Venezia. Un lavoro costruito quasi interamente da Field Recordings realizzate principalmente tramite idrofoni, dove il suono dell’acqua pur essendo protagonista, nella composizione occupa un posto secondario. Enrico ci propone per Soundscape room una sessione di ascolto di microsuoni della fauna e flora lagunare di velme e barene, tipiche strutture morfologiche di un ambiente naturalistico in cui la pressione antropica resta ai margini ma rivela la sua silenziosa presenza. A breve in uscita l’album omonimo per la tedesca Gruenrekorder”. Giuliana Placanica (Good vibes)

10th May 2020, h. 18.00
Link –> https://bit.ly/3cRUFVq

A new release on the orizon: TEREDO NAVALIS – Gruenrekorder 2020

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Really excited to announce I have a new solo full album coming in the next months that will be released by the amazing Gruenrekorder label. This work is titled “Teredo Navalis” and is entirely based on field recordings made in the Venetian lagoon.

Here a preview of the cover with a photograph provided by Donato Gagliano.

TEREDO NAVALIS / Enrico Coniglio / CD / Gruen 188

Stay tuned.

homework – year 4 (taâlem 2019)

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my contribute for the annual compilation by taâlem records.
a dedication to the recent venice flood.

“homework – year 4″ is the fourth volume in an ongoing series of compilations which are released at the end of each year and gather unreleased tracks composed/recorded/tweaked/finalized during the year by as much taâlem artists as possible.

so once again, we’ve asked every artist who had a release on taâlem during these 18 years to contribute a 2019 track.

we’ve received 59 tracks for this fourth edition. most of the contributing artists were already present on the previous editions (even on all of them for a few artists!), some appear for the first time, others could unfortunately not make it for this fourth volume for various reasons.
some of them will hopefully be back for the fifth one in 2020!

as always, taâlem wishes to thank all the artists involved for their generosity, patience, trust and support during all these years.
and once again, big thanks to our ever loyal customers too! we couldn’t go on without you.

previous volumes:
taalem.bandcamp.com/album/homework-year-3
taalem.bandcamp.com/album/homework-year-2
taalem.bandcamp.com/album/homework-year-1

OUT NOW: Open To The Sea “Another Year Is Over” (Midira records 2019)

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Happy to announce the release of “Another Year Is Over, Let’s Wait for Springtime” – digisleeve CD + eight page booklet, limited to 200 copies.

Linear notes: “Open To The Sea” is the collaboration project of Matteo Uggeri and Enrico Coniglio and “Another Year Is Over, Let´s Wait For Springtime” is their second album. While Coniglio focusses on guitar, synths and other instruments, Uggeri adds samples and field recordings to create a soundcosmos full of tiny melodies and themes with appereance by some guest musicians on drums, trumpet and cello. That would make a perfect experimental ambient album with jazzy moments, but Uggeri & Coniglio push this release further by adding some vocals to most of the tracks by inviting guest singers like Dominic Appleton (This Mortal Coil) or Lau Nau from Finland.

The album features artwork by Graham Crowley and got mastered by James Plotkin.

Purchase also at www.midirarecords.com