(etre)
Voices Stomp Flames for Requiem Times
Ruralfaune 2007

01. Are You Here to Stay? (for Ives Bonnefoy)
02. To Provoke a Fire Beyond Your Shutters (for Ivano Ferrari)
03. These Birds Say to Me "It's Hard to Live!" (for Vittorio Sereni)
04. We Do Boring Things Togheter (for Philippe Sollers)
05. Dear Dead Woman (for Paul Celan)

In ontology, the study of being (etre) is anything that can be said to be, either transcendentally or immanently. (etre), a project of Italian-born Salvatore Borrelli, is a strange mixure between free-folk, experimental music & glitchtronica. It uses different typologies of medias, manipulated in real-time. Neon, ice, glass, fire, colours and chemical substances, robots, radios, metals, ethnic instruments, are melted in a particular approach used to produce stratification, but always with a constant relation between origin & becoming. -p.r.

>> gsize / mihd (117mb) (d-_-b)
>> love it, buy it (Animal Psi)

Worth the trouble looking for this one while it still is in stock... Edition of 80 video-enhanced CD's, with pretty packaging and a small, intimate, surprising home-movie collage for 'Dear Dead Woman'. As for the music, you should know already - Italians are absolutely great at layering sound & feelings, never becoming stale or overbearing. They kind of let it go, but give their stuff a common sense of purpose. What's of particular interest here is the so-called "free glitch" style that would become, at least for now, the hallmark of Mr. Borrelli's work. Amongst his extensive arsenal: acoustic guitars, harmonica, field recordings, piano, baby toys, violin, broken turnables, micromodular & laptop processing, moog filters, drums, sampler, organ, and tape loops. As usual with my fellow Latins - highly recommeded.