Luminance Ratio share another vinyl with an international musicians. While the first volume involved the American musician/artist Steve Roden, this second volume features Luminance Ratio, with a psychedelic piece of music between free-folk and ambient, and the Australian artist Oren Ambarchi with a song mixing the usual warm frequencies of his guitar with a unique and evocative vocal part.

Terrapin are Giovanni Lami & Shaun McAlpine, an impro duo based on real time processing field recordings, analog instruments and digital sounds, all played and processed live. The fundamental idea behind the project is vivisection, holding Harry Frederick Harlow as an example of brutality, anthropocentrism, speciesism and destructive practices against animals. In 50′s and 60′s he has conducted tons of experiments on rhesus monkeys. “The effects of 6 months of total social isolation were so devastating and debilitating that we had assumed initially that 12 months of isolation would not produce any additional decrement. This assumption proved to be false; 12 months of isolation almost obliterated the animals socially”.

Versatility has always been what sets Luca Sigurtà apart. His new solo album exhibits his most dreamy side. There are five tracks which sit between cinematic drone music and Angelo Badalmenti. It is a soundscape for a sunny afternoon in the North of Europe, filled with white light that illuminates our mind and the presence of distant noise. Shared between the passion for silence and noise, Luca Sigurtà made several releases on labels like Creative Sources, Afe Records, Dokuro, Lisca, Tulip. He also plays with Harshcore and Luminance Ratio. On stage he uses tapes, analogical sources and electronic stuff of any sort.

Luminance Ratio release their first split collaboration, featuring the American musician, artist and performer Steve Roden. Luminance Ratio present the new line-up which involves the experimental guitarist Luca Mauri and the noiser Luca Sigurtà, besides the original member Gianmaria Aprile and Andrea Ferraris. The band give us the track “Reoccuring Dreams”, which walks the thin line between electro-acoustic avant-garde and dreamy psychedelia. Steve Roden, by his side, presents the song “Marvelous Is Flairs”: arch drones, vocal loops and field recordings driven by a melancholic pulsation.

Soundscapes that alternate unstable vibrations of the earth’s surface to static animal references. Acoustic instruments, electronics, voice and field recordings, in the first work by Alberto Boccardi, tell emotional phases grown from the memories but living in the present. The use of sound is purely functional to instinct, and to the desire to define the boundaries of otherwise ephemeral images. Alberto Boccardi is looking to recreate deep emotional soundscapes working with minimal elements and focusing on the suspension and on the contrast between sound and silence.