fratto9 under the sky

out now:


LUMINANCE RATIO Like Little Garrisons Besieged (fratto9 under the sky-Boring machines)

LUMINANCE RATIO is a collaborative effort joining sound artists Eugenio Maggi (Cría Cuervos, Slave Auction), Gianmaria Aprile (Ultraviolet Makes Me sick, Fratto9under the sky records) and Andrea Ferraris (Airchamber 3, Ur,Ulna, John Russel, Sil Muir). "Like Little Garrisons Besieged" brings them far from their respective discographies and finds them sailing in the apparently quiet waters of free-folk, electroacoustics and minimal drones. The music, resulting from live sessions and painstaking studio work, is meticulously thought to combine electronics with analog/traditional instruments: laptop, acoustic and electric guitars, cardiod and contact microphones, vibraphone, melodica, glockenspiel, minidisc, rimshot and cymbals, analog synth, percussion, kaoss pad and pedal effects. Featured on this release is Paul Bradley (Twenty Hertz, Monos, etc.)'s personal reinterpretation of their collective work, assembling an expanded "remix concrète" out of the single tracks.


A SPIRALE Agaspastik (fratto9 under the sky-desert factory-JP)

Contrazioni spastiche postpunk, il continuo nascere e annullarsi di una forma, innestate su ricerca timbrica elettroacustica, e rigorosa pratica dell’improvvisazione come mezzo di fuga verso una musicalità altra.

Try to imagine Kevin Drumm and Bhob Rainey playing rock together, with a drummer that deviate their already deviant music playing something coming from the sixties.
The aim is to make music “not playing” (barbarous music, quoting Cornelius Cardew), a torn body that spits blood, whose only movement is generated by spastic contractions due to injuries.
Agaspastik represents the “step beyond” of A spirale, that from electroacoustic destructuration of “Porosità” (cd-r) and “Gariga” (SM – 1360) expand their range of possibility and control over the sound matter, losing themselves in the languages of radical improvisation, of power noise, of punk...
Very dark and violent music, with bewildering moments of melody...
www.myspace.com/aspirale - www.a-spirale.blogspot.com

latest release:


Illàchime Quartet I'm Normal, My Heart Still Works (fratto9 under the sky-lizard records)

It is released by the italian label Fratto9 Under the sky Records and Lizard Records.
Several fine musicians have given their contribution to the album. Among them, some important international artists like
Mark Stewart (voice of Pop group and Maffia)
Graham Lewis (voice and bass player of Wire)
Rhys Chatham (avantgarde musician from New York)
and Salvatore Bonafede (one of the most well-known italian jazzists).

Illàchime Quartet is an instrumental ensemble based in Naples (Italy) that joins electronics and acoustic instruments. It gathers sounds and noises from the surroundings as well as scattered fragments of acoustic memories, which form the texture for the interventions of the musicians along rough and terse lines, often improvised. Final target: to intrigue and to seduce the audience by means of an unconventional, highly kinematic sonic experience.
At the moment the live lineup is composed by:
Fabrizio Elvetico: piano, electronics, electric bass; Gianluca Paladino: guitar, samples; Pasquale Termini: cello, synthesizer; Agostino Mennella: drums, electronics

The band released its first album in 2004, then a contribute on the vol. 9 of Bip_Hop Generation Series (previous volumes of this compilation contained tracks by artists as Murcof, Scanner, Mira Calix, Phonem). Another release is planned for a compilation by the Dublin-based label Psychonavigation Records.

www.illachime.net - www.myspace.com/illachime
www.fratto9.com - info@fratto9.com
www.lizardrecords.it - lizardopenmind@yahoo.it

"Private Works" series

In layout grafico di un 45rpm (18x18) e in CDr, ecco a voi le prime 2 uscite della serie "private works". Si tratta di regsitrazioni live effettuate da Gianmaria Aprile; grafiche curate da Simone Fratti. edizione limitata 25 copie: 5 euro cadauna

A limited CDr's edition (25 copies), with a 45rpm graphic layout (18x18), of live performance recorded by myself (Gianmaria Aprile). Graphic art by Simone Fratti. 5 euro each


Private Works vol1: Miss Kenichi + Evangelista (recorded live@Ortosonico 16/12/2006 and 15/11/2006)	Private Works vol2: Fausto Balbo+St.Ride (recorded live@Ortosonico 7\7\2007 and 6\10\2006)

next releases:


Private Works vol3: Daedelus (recorded live@Ortosonico 14/7/2006)	Private Works vol4: Micah Blue Smaldone+Harris Newman (recorded live@Ortosonico21\10\2006)

T3 DVD

TAGOFEST 3 (DVD)

Filmed during the 3rd edition of a most important independent festival in Italy: Tagofest @ Tagomago (Massa-Italy)

with:
afraid!, airportman, almandino quite deluxe, be invisible now!, dadamatto, fuzz orchestra, harschcore, i/o, jealousy party, larsen lombriki, miranda, musica da cucina, ovo, tiger!shit!tiger!tiger!, with love

A video by Nicola Quironi: nicolaquiriconi@libero.it - www.liscarecords.com

lamusicarockprogressivaeuropea Al Aprile - Luca Majer
La musica rock-progressiva europea
192 pagine (brossura plastificata lucida con alette 14x21)

Scritto alla fine degli anni '70 da due musicisti milanesi e pubblicato a suo tempo dalla Gammalibri, La musica rock-progressiva europea è considerato la bibbia dell'argomento. Questo libro racconta la storia della musica rock-progressiva
nel momento del suo tramonto, ormai fagocitata dall’industria discografica e destinata a diventare nell’opinione popolare Rondò veneziano e onde quadre Roland. Un saggio-romanzo scritto con rigore calvinista e passione salgariana; una opportunità di scoprire o riscoprire musiche di sconvolgente bellezza /profondità/potenza ristampate in CD o da cercare in vinile di terza mano. Per i più giovani una visione ispiratrice di un tempo unico e irripetibile e per chi c’era l’occasione di ricordare
che il mondo non è sempre stato così piatto e conformista...

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stopandgo 'STOPPENGO' 1.0 _another experimental picture

01. I/O 02. VONNEUMANN 03. L’ENFANCE ROUGE 04. LENDORMIN & RENATO CIUNFRINI 05. MATTIA COLETTI & SELFBRUSH 06. PLASMA EXPANDER 07. DOUBLE K.O 08. MADAME P 09. IOIOI 10. IMPLICIT 11. CALOMITO 12. ZEITLET X-EMBLE 13.TANAKE 14. EAQUARTETT 15. NAGA PROJECT 4 (Trio Naga con Luciana Manca) 16. TAXONOMY 17. MECCANICA FERMA

lucamauri Luca Mauri "between love and hate"
www.creativesourcesrec.com

From the age of sixteen he has played guitar in different band hardcore-punk/noise (Città Sotterranea, Idioti, MMK…) and approached experimental avant-garde music in the late 90s, with his solo-projects “00” and “looke”.
Between 2001 and 2006 he has played drums in a post-punk/funk band called “Kokoro Mayikibo”, and recorded a cd co-produced with the Italian label Mila Records.
In 2005-2007 he has played bass/guitar/drums in “Two Dead Bodies” duo, devoted to tribal/noise improvisations (a cd out on aferecords/bar la muerte recs).
Today, Luca is also playing guitar in “I/O”, an improvisation quartet with avant-garde/free-form rock/minimalistic influences, by which he has released two records and has played live with a lot of bands (Liars, William Parker, Giuseppe Ielasi, Zu, Cul de Sac and so on...).
http://www.mediafire.com/file/nqojnzdkzjw/01-a%20quiet%20storm.mp3

biphop E' uscita questo mese la compilation elettro-acustica della Bip_Hop Records (Marseille-France) Generation vol. 9 che nelle edizioni precedenti ha pubblicato contributi di artisti come Murcof, Scanner, Rothko, Mira Calix, Teho Teardo ecc.
Nel volume 9, come unico gruppo italiano appare l'illàchime quartet con tre tracce inedite: Cluster I, Cluster II, High Noon Electronic.
Se siete interessati a recensire Bip_Hop Generation vol. 9 potete inviarci una mail all’indirizzo info@illachime.net per riceverne copia promozionale. Per avere maggiori informazioni visitate lo space del gruppo all'indirizzo www.myspace.com/illachime;per ascoltare i preview dei nostri contributi, visitate la pagina della Bip_Hop all'indirizzo http://www.pandemoniumrecords.com/bip-hop/catalog/g_09.htm. Grazie per la collaborazione.