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2011 IN REVIEW : MUSIC

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December 27, 2011

Cover images of my top 15 favourite albums of 2011.

2011 was without a doubt P.J.Harvey‘s year. Let England Shake was the best album  by a mile and her interviews and concerts confirmed her as an artist at the top of her game.

Otherwise, this was a year for renewing old acquaintances rather than making fresh discoveries.

The welcome return of Gillian Welch (and Dave Rawlings) was an event and the album proved well worth the eight year wait.

It was also a nice surprise  that Charalambides released another Kranky studio work, a belated follow-up to 2007’s Likeness and as consistently excellent as ever. Continue reading →

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EATEN ALIVE BY CANNIBAL MOVIE

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November 18, 2011

CANNIBAL MOVIE live at  TESCO – ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE, FAENZA.

The drum and organ duo Cannibal Movie, from Southern Italy take their name from a series of deliberately bad taste Italian movies from the 1970s and 1980s.

Their creepy music would easily serve as an alternative soundtrack to these low budget cult works, a fact emphasised by the surreal and often gory images projected as they play.

For, make no mistake, here we are talking un-restored video nasties rather than digitally enhanced technicolor with the emphasis is on the impurities and rough around the edges quality of  analogue. Continue reading →

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HIGH ON STURMUNDRUGS

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November 7, 2010

Sturmundrugs records from out of Taranto, Italy has quickly  established itself as a reliable source of abstract and alien sounds.

The label is the brainchild of Donato Epiro whose own releases go from strength to strength. As with his music, the inspirations for the Sturmundrugs catalogue can be traced back to folk traditions but you won’t find any cute ditties about laddies and lasses, Actually you won’t find any conventional songs at all. What you get instead , is a heady dose of  cutting edge ambient noise that are perfect soundtracks to solitude. Continue reading →

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INTERVIEW WITH DONATO EPIRO

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June 22, 2010

The music of Italy’s Donato Epiro has an ambient glow that lies someway between the precision of  electronica and the more spaced out trippiness of experimental Kosmische rock.

At the same time there is an unmistakable influence of traditional acoustic folk which gives his  work a beautifully organic texture. There is a warm complexity in the way layers of  intricate instrumentation blend with more primitive rhythms.

The first album I heard of his – Sounding The Sun (Stunned Records) – remains my personal favourite. This can be downloaded from the ever indispensable Microphones in the Trees blogspot. You can also sample Donato’s work on Soundcloud.

Donato runs the label Sturmundrugs Records although his releases appear on an often bewildering range of small presses,  either  on cassette or as limited edition cdrs.

I wanted to find out a little about the man behind this music and Donato kindly agreed to answer a few questions.  (I have translated his replies from Italian). Continue reading →

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