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SW 015LP
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Going's third effort is a joint release by Silent Water and Meakusma. Recorded in the span of one year in monthly recording sessions, it sees them venture off into a melismatic and contrasting contemplation on forward musical propulsion, '70s crossover jazz, and minimalistic and, at times, downright futuristic electronic music. Over the course of two spun-out, yet concentrated pieces, light and dark are built into a mesmerizing musical reverie that is equally as contemplative as it is explicitly emotional and confrontational. Melodic as well as rhythmic accents diverge and coalesce with ease and poise, a subtle yet incessant throb defining everything throughout. Going is the quartet of Giovanni Di Domenico, João Lobo, Mathieu Calleja, and Pak Yan Lau. Includes bonus download track "Ramen". Gatefold cover.
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SW 001LP
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The new solo LP by Giovanni Di Domenico, Insalata Statica comprises a single album-length composition, initially a suite of six distinct parts that have been weaved together to form a kaleidoscopic whole. Composed and performed almost in its entirety by Di Domenico himself, the music takes listeners from passages of melancholic introspection through to fuzz-laden melodic exuberance. The subtle, shifting harmonies, rhythms and textures are deftly arranged -- often blurring lines between a wide variety of acoustic and electronic instrumentation -- to form a coherent arc from beginning to end. Moving through delicate motifs for horns, woodwinds, percussions, harp, guitar, and electronics into more stately piano-led choruses and even hectic, Hammond-led jazz sections, Insalata Statica will appeal to fans of Jim O'Rourke's The Visitor (2009). The material for the album originated in studio recordings composed for a separate band project five years previously. Through techniques of overdubbing and editing, Di Domenico searched to find a common musical frame in which the different "songs" he had quickly laid down could exist -- and by the same means, to find a way in which to fuse diverse influences. Although the result of meticulous editing, Insalata Statica nevertheless retains a sense of spontaneity and lightness that gives the music an organic quality. Insalata Statica, which translates in English as "static salad" derives from a joke -- a friend's playful description of Di Domenico's music. As the pianist says: "I prepared the salad fairly quickly, then took five years to 'dress' it. I thought it was perfect to have this more static beginning that slowly unfolds into different twists and tricks, to reach a much less static end." While largely recorded in the studio in his current city of residence, Brussels, it seems only fitting that for a peripatetic musician such as Di Domenico the album should suggest the experience of travel throughout its ever shifting movements. Listening to Insalata Statica, one can easily imagine the character of different landscapes -- and their effect on mood and energy. The album's changing moods, colors, and tempos recall the melancholy of Franco Battiato's '70s albums, Brazilian folk flourishes, the spacious, harmonically rich jazz of ECM recordings, and oddball pop. Ushering such influences into a vibrant whole, blending instrumental timbres and melodic lines in surprising ways, Insalata Statica has a compelling, melodic charm all its own.
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Delivery Health is Giovanni Di Domenico, Jim O'Rourke, and Tatsuhisa Yamamoto. Following the release of Delivery Health in 2015 (SW 010LP), the trio composed by Giovanni Di Domenico, Jim O'Rourke and Tatsuhisa Yamamoto returns with yet another amazing album. Delivery Health became the band name and Hard Off is the title of the second album. Recorded at the great GOK Sound studio in Tokyo, Hard Off brings the same warmness in sound (thanks again also to the fabulous mixing work done by O'Rourke) and attentive structural sensibility, this time with a more "lyrical" vein. Against the odds of geography -- continuously coming together within various collaborations and combinations of the three -- Giovanni Di Domenico, Jim O'Rourke, Tatsuhisa Yamamoto have begun to assemble one of the most exciting bodies of organized sound in recent years. The trio's second outing under the moniker Delivery Health is no exception to the rule. Recorded in Tokyo between 2012 and 2013 and emerging on the ambitious Silent Water imprint, Hard Off sidesteps signifiers and expectations, weaving a knotted tapestry from sheets of sound. An assembly, a lesson, and a simple conversation between friends, Hard Off is equally an exercise in loss. Its creators are three masters of their form, relinquishing ego and presumption for the honesty found in unforeseen truths. Preconception, reflex, and imprint fall away; a potent reminder of heights unveiled by the unmediated self. Hard Off is a non-place, an undetermined sonic location without allegiance. These are considerations which begin with the ear -- elastic excursions and experiments in improvised sound. Presenting startling and unexpected range, new worlds emerge and evolve from within the fog; rippling textural ambiance, harsh interlocking atonality, subtle and delicate interplay to outright rocking jam. An album which always seeming exactly what and where it needs to be, while moving toward where must be gone. Cover picture by Antonio Julio Duarte. 180 gram vinyl; Edition of 300.
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SW 011LP
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2015 release. Giovanni Di Domenico's Duos With Guitars features Norberto Lobo, Tetuzi Akiyama, and Jim O'Rourke. Recorded during the course of three years (from 2011-2013) in various locations in Brussels and Tokyo, this double LP puts together three of the most uncompromising and original guitar players of the globe (there should have been a fourth great guitar player, the late Hans Reichel, but unfortunately he passed away days before asking him to join the project), all with their unique sound and approach to music and their instrument, all glued together by Giovanni's ever personal and forward music thinking. Three-sided LP; side four should have had a duo with the late Hans Reichel. This record is dedicated to him.
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2015 release. Delivery Health is the highly idiosyncratic trio of Giovanni Di Domenico, Jim O'Rourke, and Tatsuhisa Yamamoto. The recording was done in Tokyo's great GOK Sound, directly on a 24-track tape recorder, and was mixed at Steamroom, Tokyo, by Jim O'Rourke himself. The blend of early '70s ECM drum sound, long unfolding travelogues, and a great transparency in the mix, gives to this record a breadth and depth make the music hard to categorize. Jazz (think John Abercrombie's Gateway (1975) and, again, early ECM), electronic drones (reminiscent of Tony Conrad), and the most organic of rock sound (especially in drummer Tatsuhisa Yamamoto's tightness and openness) fuse in a very special way. Cover picture by Antonio Julio Duarte. 180 gram vinyl; Edition of 300.
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