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Artist:
IELASI, GIUSEPPE
Title:
August
Label:
12K
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.00
Catalog #:
12K 1044CD
"12k presents the latest solo work from Italian composer Giuseppe Ielasi.
August
is the 4th full-length CD from Ielasi following his critically-acclaimed debut,
Plans
(Sedimental, 2003) and the stunning
Gesine
and
Untitled
(Häpna, 2005, 2006).
August
takes a more linear approach to Ielasi's composing with sounds stretched like layers of gauze forming a thick, soft blanket. Utilizing piano, Hammond organ, guitars, dobro, synthesizers and shortwave radio, Ielasi creates deep, warm drones and suspended, scratchy melodies with a hint of despair and melancholy that make this a very introspective album. His trademark guitar and live approach to instrumentation are in the forefront, yet set behind an expertly processed veil of subtle electronics. The textures are unabashedly acoustic but buried and moody enough as to question their origin.
August
is a haunting, but beautiful album that falls neatly between the starkness of
Gesine
and the scattering rhythmic complexity of
Untitled
. Like music for a farewell, an ending of ends,
August
is moody, static, slow and emotional."
Artist:
IELASI, GIUSEPPE
Title:
Aix
Label:
12K
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.00
Catalog #:
12K 1051CD
"
Aix
is the latest work from Italian artist Giuseppe Ielasi and the follow-up to 2007's
August
(12K 1044). With
Aix
we see Ielasi building his layered, atmospheric music around rhythmic grids. Most of the time these are quite irregular and the pulses are not necessarily stable or clear. Where his previous work approached sound in a linear fashion Aix imposes a strong vertical development with the aforementioned grid and a production consisting of ons and offs, employing as much improvisation as Ielasi's previous work, but in a different way. Despite the self-imposed grid structure,
Aix
relies heavily on randomization. Not in the traditional sense of sound placement but instead of the spatialization of sounds, echoes, reverbs and the stereo image. As a result,
Aix
has an amazing sense and clarity of space as the small fragments of sound breathe and find their own place in the mix, thanks to Ielasi's sublime skills as a mixer and engineer. Ielasi relied heavily on numerous short samples and combining them in ways that fell into his groove; some found from others' recordings and many more recorded during the past year. We hear fragments of percussive (acoustic) objects, drums, piano, trumpet, guitar, and, of course, synthetic textures. Although there is a distinct rhythmic pulse to
Aix
, Ielasi manages to mold it into something wonderfully languid and warm... and strangely inviting."
Artist:
IELASI, GIUSEPPE
Title:
Gesine
Label:
HAPNA (SWEDEN)
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.00
Catalog #:
HAPNA 021CD
"New solo work from this Italian experimental guitarist and electronic musician. Known from his work with Dean Roberts and in more improvised contexts. These six pieces are all made up of guitar in different forms, sometimes electronically treated, but in a very organic manner. Drones, guitar techniques derived as much from folk as the experimental music field, and a calm, haunting atmosphere make up the basis for this beautiful album."
Artist:
IELASI, GIUSEPPE
Title:
Label:
HAPNA (SWEDEN)
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.00
Catalog #:
HAPNA 028CD
Giuseppe Ielasi is an Italian experimental guitarist and electronic musician, and this is his second release for the Häpna label. Known from his improvisatory work with
Dean Roberts
, and his highly inventive guitar explorations in the vein of
Oren Ambarchi
and
Loren Conors
, Ielasi also founded the well-respected Fringes label. The new untitled album by Giuseppe Ielasi lives in a land of light and shade. The mist lies thick but close to the ground, and it's glowing and sparking. Reflections shoot wildly in encrypted tongues. The log-cutters are working with their timber. This is Ielasi's most complex work to date, both in regard to instrumentation and compositional form. A well-prepared decoction of dark cinema, wanderlust and experimental sound manipulating techniques.
Artist:
IELASI, GIUSEPPE
Title:
Plans
Label:
SEDIMENTAL
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.00
Catalog #:
SED 035CD
"A year and a half in the making, this remarkably dense and subtly musical effort marks a rupture/diversion in Ielasi's creative output. The intersection of electro-acoustic sonographies infused with fragments of melancholic melodies creates a near dizzying disorientation. In 1998 Iealasi founded the well-respected Fringes label, in order to document his own work as well as that of other artists. In addition to his work on Fringes, he has recorded for such labels as Leo and Sonoris, Erstwhile and Absurd. He has performed live with Taku Sugimoto, Jerome Noetinger, Dean Roberts, Thomas Lehn, Michel Doneda and Brandon LaBelle, Domenico Sciajno among many others."
Artist:
IELASI, GIUSEPPE
Title:
(Another) Stunt
Label:
TAIGA
Format:
12"
Price:
$15.50
Catalog #:
TAIGA 006EP
The second in a series of 3 EPs by
Giuseppe Ielasi
focuses on the use of one turntable and vinyl records as the source for raw material, with pulses as the main organizational principle. Short segments and loops or longer and more complex improvisations were collected via "turntablism" rather than through traditional sampling. Mastered and cut to lacquer at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. Pressed on 200g virgin vinyl and packaged in a full-color gloss-varnished jacket printed on heavy stock. Photo by Italian artist
Amedeo Martegani
. Limited edition of 500.
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