Browse by Label: ELICA (ITALY)

Artist:	BERTONI, MARCO
Title:	18.8.81
Label:	ELICA (ITALY)
Format:	10"
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	ELICA 3305

"After quitting the outstandingly original and enjoyable Italian group Confusional Quartet, keyboard player Marco Bertoni, upon the invitation of the Quartet's fifth member, recording engineer Gianni Gitti, recorded a handful of pieces for piano and studio work which was eventually to be released on record by Les Disques Du Crepuscle, a product that never materialized. The piano tunes here have a playfulness and a nonchalance of Satiesque inspiration, exposing an intimate world which reveals through simplicity and primitive studio inventiveness, with a production emphasizing the idea of sketches and of artisan work. In these eight short pieces, the piano tracks are superimposed, speeded up or down, deconstructed and generally played with, although most of the time left in their original unmodified beauty, with street cats, breathings, radio-dramas, Russian voices, fake birds and Gianni Cuoghi's drum elements, discreetly adding to them through Gianni Gitti's studio touch. Released on vinyl record instead of compact-disc, considering this format to be more appropriate to the nature of this music." Year 2000 release.

Artist:	ALMURÓ, ANDRÉ
Title:	Dé-Pli
Label:	ELICA (ITALY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	ELICA 3330

"The first compact disc release of music by André Almuró, one of the most creative and independent French composers whose artistic experiences started in the mid-40s with the creation of the Mouvement Sentationniste. His career has since embraced poetry, literature, visual arts, film, performance and music, as well as a 35 year activity as producer at the French Radio working with the likes of Breton, Cocteau, Genet, Casares, Clementi and others. His studio musical researches go back to the early 50s together with Bernard Parmegiani and separately from Schaffer and Henry, before joining the former's G.R.M. at its start in 1958, then returning independent again after a few years. All his electro-acoustic compositions (some of those dating from the 60's were released on record at the time by Adès and BAM) show an intensely emotional and sensual approach which makes them stand apart from most of the other more experiment-oriented music created in the French studios -- and they produce a very intense listening experience. The three pieces on this album span a fourteen year period of Almuró's recent musical production: 'Le Troisème Oeil' (1991) is a 28 minute dynamic and deceivingly cosmic piece for clashing and screeching electronic bodies which was made as soundtrack to a very beautiful, sensual and visionary 'underground' film with the same title in collaboration with Jean-Luc Guionnet; 'Terrae incognitae' (1978) is a 36 minute eerie and ritualistic tour-de-force for sixty-member chorus, recorded live at its animated and scandal-stirring premier in the Notre-Dame Church in Caen; 'Boomerang, Prelude' (1979) is a dark and brooding 12 minute electronic composition also performed live surrounded by iron fences and road cones, big standing mattresses and a whole tree hanging upside down. Digipack cover with insert containing texts in French and English (essay by Fabrizio Alloero and detailed biographical notes) and photographs from the films and performances."

Artist:	VITAMIN B12, THE
Title:	The Vitamin B12
Label:	ELICA (ITALY)
Format:	2x10"
Price:	$25.00
Catalog #:	ELICA 3708

"More catchy than Dlin Dlon Cowboy. The Vitamin B12's music maintains an ingenious home-made sound in a refined bric-a-brac of experimental sound explorations, adventurous and successful juxtapositions and playful melodies and structures. This set presents 24 kaleidoscopic miniatures, like the images which adorn the cover, assembled with amazingly gracious do-it-yourself pop sensibility, groovy lounge tendencies and a passionate curiosity for noise and sound modification. The history of The Vitamin B12 remains a mystery for us too, so that not many words can be written on that. This is its first album which is not self-released, following an obscure four-LP box set and an even more obscure double LP set, which were mysteriously released in tiny editions in England in the last decade or so. A double 10" LP record set (as we decided that a Vitamin B12 release can only be a multiple one) with color gatefold sleeve, released in an edition of about 400 copies."

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