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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:	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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