Wednesday 9 October 2024, 7.30pm
Two nights of experimental music from Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region.
ATER Fondazione and Emilia Romagna Music Commission present SUONO GRASSO
Riccardo La Foresta is a percussionist and sound artist from Modena, Italy, who has developed the Drummophone, an aerophone instrument obtained from drums which creates acoustic drones, ancestral melodies and complex beats, drastically distancing the instrument from traditional drumming and questioning the role of the drum as a percussive instrument. He also creates site-specific performances, sound sculptures and installations. He has toured Europe intensively with experimental music, free jazz, composed music and sound installations, including at Unsound, CTM, Terraforma, Sonica, OSA, Skanu Mesz, Sacrum Profanum, LisboaSoa, LOST, Robot, AngelicA, Tempo Reale, La Digestion, Musica Sanae, Romaeuropa and more. He was a Shape Platform artist in 2021 and works as music curator for NODE festival in Modena and for an artistic residency programme at La Torre, Italy.
www.riccardolaforesta.com
Sulla Lingua is the world’s only Australian-Italian electroacoustic noise rock trio, featuring Anthony Pateras (tētēma/PIVIXKI) on electronics, Stefano Pilia (Zu, Rokia Traoré, Massimo Volume) on guitar and Riccardo La Foresta on drums and his own creation, the Drummophone. Sulla Lingua in Italian means 'on the tongue' or 'on language’, which summarises the band’s high/lo aesthetics - they could be referring to Roland Barthes or saluting Gene Simmons, but they still haven’t decided. Both seem fitting to their trance-y harmonics and heavy grooves mixed with psychoacoustic electronics and cinematic textures. Their debut album ON recalls the radical, contradictory first statements of music nerds’ past. It proposes invention, challenging yet weirdly catchy, as an energised salve for messed-up times. It recalls slowly moshing at a musique concrète diffusion, or perhaps being lost deep in thought at some kind of sludge rock fest. Mixed by Timothy Lewis (Thighpaulsandra, Coil, Spiritualized), mastered by James Plotkin (Scorn, Khanate, Phantomsmasher) and released on Improved Sequence, it sounds huge: thick, tight and immense,
https://www.anthonypateras.com/news/new-band-sulla-lingua
Sprecato is the first album in seven years from Maple Death Records founder James Jonathan Clancy (Italy/Canada), and the first under his birth name following previous ensembles His Clancyness (Fat Cat, Maple Death) and Brutal Birthday (Total Punk, Improved Sequence). It is a new kind of singer-songwriter album that bridges the divide between cosmic loner-folk, proto-ambient and the epic, intricately arranged world of vintage Italian soundtracks. Written and recorded between London and Bologna, the initial spark for the album was found in Gli Sprecati (Canicola Edizioni) by visionary Italian comic artist Michelangelo Setola, who later provided Clancy with the album’s cover. Setola’s near-apocalyptic pastoralism runs through the record: drum machines that sound as if they’ve been excavated from the earth meet detuned pianos and guitars; bucolic traces of synths are stretched beyond all reckoning. For the Sprecato tour, Clancy (12 string guitar/sampler/vocals) is joined by an incredible ensemble of musicians from the experimental Italian scene and Maple Death community: Dominique Vaccaro (J.H. Guraj) on guitar, Andrea De Franco (Fera) on synths and Laura Agnusdei on sax/electronics.
