Fluid-Radio‘s Adam Williams reviews Con Fuoco d’Occhi un Nostalgico Lupo.
This compilation comes via The Silent Ballet and Lost Children Netlabel and comprises contemporary Italian experimental music which was created in part to highlight the abundance of excellent and often unheralded artists originating from Italy. Many of the tracks included have been written especially for this volume or else were previously unavailable.
For some years The Silent Ballet has been dedicated to audial excellence and so it comes as no surprise that a work which is compiled by members of TSB’s staff is packed full of quality music. At twenty one tracks spread over two parts, there is a large amount of music for the listener to pour over. Due to the fractured nature of Italian independent music and the relatively less state support which artists receive when compared with many other Western European cities, it is a worthy endeavour indeed to shine the spotlight on this fertile music scene.
There is a real diversity to the track-list and to discuss each musician would be worthy of an article in itself, so to pick merely a few names involved for the sake of brevity, artists such as Matteo Uggeri, Giuseppe Ielasi, Neil on Impression are given a space on the compilation, as is Italian noise guru Maurizio Bianchi, who has offered a track from what he reports to be his last album, having announced his retirement from music once again. Though there are elements to the compilation which will cater to most experimental music fan’s taste, there is a shared aesthetic between the works and this helps to make con fuoco d’occhi un nostalgico lupo a remarkably cohesive body of work which incorporates ambient, minimalism, field recordings and more.
In con fuoco d’occhi un nostalgico lupo, the many people involved in its creation have between them compiled a wonderful and sincere document of Italian contemporary experimental music which can serve as an introduction to the music scene within Italy for the uninformed or as simply a great body of work in its own right.
Con fuoco d’occhi un nostalgico lupo is available now from Lost Children Netlabel for free download or optional payment of any desired amount.
- Review by Adam Williams for Fluid Radio
source: http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2010/11/con-fuoco-d%E2%80%99occhi-un-nostalgico-lupo/
