Label: ADN

イタリアBlack Sweat RecordsとADNが共同タイトルを出版!!多くの説明は不要、80年代に参加したプロジェクトの再評価、また現行の活動も活発な大ベテラン人気作家Riccardo Sinigaglia、1970年代より自身の絵画をコンセプトとした音楽作りに勤しむペインターにしてミュージシャンMario De Leo、今まで何故かフォーカスされて来なかったデュオの秘蔵音源が遂にLP化!!1981年に録音されていた未発表共作を纏めたものであり、地中海風のフィンガーピッキングやフィールドレコーディング、怪しいシンセ操作、ボーカリゼーション、テープループ等々、今尚新鮮に聴ける奇抜なサウンドイメージが満載の超傑作。インナースリーヴに録音の詳細が記されています。





Since the 1970s Mario De Leo works as a musician and visual artist. His mechanical paintings are hybrid works that reveal the cosmic spiritualism hidden in the meanders of electronics. With Riccardo Sinigaglia (Futuro Antico, Correnti Magnetiche, Doubling Riders) De Leo consolidates an artistic and human partnership with Lettera Cosmica, a work unpublished to date, produced and recorded in 1981. In a wacky electronic vision of the succession of time, the tracks trace the four seasons in a fine process of analog loops, prepared tapes of strings and piano, time and pitch shifts, filtering with Synthi Ems and Teac 3340 4-track recorder. On this seemingly cold palette, De Leo deploys his own personal Mediterranean fingerpicking, with vocal timbres peculiar to the music of the South of Italy, but no longer circumscribed to the origins of his Pugliese regionalism, as much as to an expressive range seasoned also with irony and avant-garde.The sound writing harmonizes with the evocative cover, in which emerges a warmest human note of "technological peasant”.