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01. ANDREA BELFI - A
02. ANDREA BELFI - B
03. ANDREA BELFI - C
04. ANDREA BELFI - D
ARTIST
TITLE
Wege
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
RM 446CD RM 446CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/9/2012

Wege translates as "path" and it's a fitting title for the latest rendering from master percussionist and experimental composer Andrea Belfi. The album's four pieces act as orientation points through some imaginary sonic landscape. Wege is Belfi's fourth LP (the first with Room40), and stems entirely from compositions completed at two artist-in-residence projects in Austria (Hotel Pupik) and in Brussels (Q-O2 Werkplatz). The album is built around a cyclic electro-acoustic system, through which Belfi has developed a complex musical network of possibilities. With this electro-acoustic system, influenced in part by Steve Reich's "Pendulum Music," Wege's four pieces revolve around spiraling interconnections of synthesizer, feedback and drums. Belfi explains further: "This device creates feedbacks on two drums on my drum kit, and I can modify it by stopping and stretching the drum skins with hands and various kinds of sticks, mallets and brushes, and/or by filtering the feedback with a modular synthesizer." Edited in a quiet apartment in Greifswald (Germany) a small town on the Baltic Sea, the record bears marks of the stillness of the surroundings in which it was finalized. There is a sense of hushed awe and a subtle reference to the wind-swept coldness of the landscape in these pieces. Wege was mastered and mixed by Giuseppe Ielasi.