Alex Puddu – Registrazioni Al Buio (Schema)

This album is an amazing journey into the world of soundtracks and library music of the 70s. In French they would call it “Music pour l’image” and this term gives you the exact idea of the deeply evocative potential of this sequence of notes does have.

“Registrazioni al Buio” is indeed a fresh and charming recording by a talented musician and gifted producer who brings new life to old sounds by restyling, merging, and mixing old and new musical intuitions. The result is somehow familiar if you loved the works of Lesiman, Bacalov, Pisano or the infinite genius of the maestro Morricone and his old time friend Alessandroni, but at the same time it sounds new, with echoes of ’No wave‘ intuitions à la Lounge Lizard.

There is no fine sampling job here. Everything is perfectly revived by combining vintage instruments and great knowledge of sound recording.

From the delicate opening theme of “Il Canto delle Orchidee” you are thrown into a swirl of emotions, some of whom are dark and tensive, while others are very introspective and sensual.

A true gold mine of musical gems, the album contains wonders like the mysterious enviromental sounds used to create a particular gothic pathos (check out “Mother’s Milk”) or an amazing spaced out trumpet.

With no doubt you will immediately recognize the voice of Edda Dell’Orso, the famous singer especially known for her collaboration with Ennio Morricone, who enriched a few tracks with her unique wordless singing.

As in a movie by Quentin Tarantino, where the lesson from the past is totally assimilated and reworked, but you still might be able to tell ‘what it is and where it came from’, this album is an original hommage to a ravishing musical past. A perfect blend of the love and knowledge of the fine connaisseur and original experimentation.

An album to file alongside those old classic soundtrack masterpieces that still sound fresh and inspiring after so many years.

Label: Schema Italy
Cat: SCEBLP 911
Format: 2xLP + CD
Release Date: September 23, 2013
BUY from JUNO Records


CD TRACKLIST
1. Il canto delle orchidee 2. Il seme della violenza 3. Il deserto sotto la pelle 4. Alta tensione 3am
5. Mirror madness
6. Incontri nel parco
7. Anna il desiderio chiuso nella stanza 8. Angeli della morte
9. Magia nera, rituali inferno ad Haiti
10. Nuove sezioni ritmiche
11. La paura è una lama di ghiaccio
12. L’occhio nella parete
13. Mother’s milk
14. Il mare dietro la porta BONUS TRACK

LP TRACKLIST
A1 Il canto delle orchidee
A2 Il seme della violenza
A3 ll deserto sotto la pelle
B1 Alta tensione 3am
B2 Mirror Madness
B3 Incontri nel parco
C1 Anna il desiderio chiuso nella stanza
C2 Angeli della morte
C3 Magia nera, rituali inferno ad Haiti
D1 Nuove sezioni ritmiche
D2 La paura è una lama di ghiaccio
D3 L’occhio nella parete
D4 Mother’s milk

Personnel:
Alex Puddu • drums, bass, acoustic and electric guitar, organ, synthesizer, zither, bongos, percussion, jaw harp, electric piano, hapsichord
Edda Dell’Orso • voice
Massimo Fiorentino • electric piano, organ
Hendrik Jøgensen • trumpets
Morten Grønvad • vibraphone
Simone Daclon • piano
Jesper Løvdal • saxophone
Loris Manca, Nikolaj Borries and Thyge Nielsen • choir
Luciano Cantone • Drums
Recorded in Copenhagen and at the Blue Spirit Recording Studio in Milan between november 2011 and november 2012.
Mixed by Marco Olivi and Davide Rosa. Assistants mixer: Federico Dascola and Francesco Borrelli.

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