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 Since it first emerged in the 1970s, the Italian new musical avant-garde has received limited exposure outside of the community’s inner circle. Thankfully, one of the primary aims of the Die Schachtel label is to locate archival and unreleased material from these artists and present their work to a broader audience. Arguably, one of the label’s most important releases is the reissue of late Luciano Cilio’s 1977 masterpiece Dell’Universo Assente, whose brilliance was rightfully acknowledged by receiving a perfect score on this very website (TMT Review).
Playing a major role in this reissue was pianist, composer, and musicologist Girolamo De Simone, who, among other things, recovered, restored, and remastered many of the tracks on the album. So, when it comes to his own material, there may exist a certain level of expectation. Namely, a “high” level. Fortunately, Shama does not disappoint.
The album’s first half consists mainly of electro-acoustic sound collages and miniatures comprised of an array of voices, field recordings, samples, and other instrumentation. The oddly anxious feel of these pieces creates an intense, foreboding mood that, at times, can be as unsettling as it is engaging. It is this fragmentary and discordant approach, however, that ultimately serves to heighten the emotional impact of the relatively sparse and introspective piano pieces that dominate the remainder of the album. Songs such as “Chiari,” in particular, with its melancholic interplay of sustained notes and silence, create moments that prove to be genuinely beautiful and heartbreaking....full text |
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| The pianist, composer and musicologist, Girolamo De Simone , is regarded as one of the foremost exponents of the new Italian border music avant-garde. An eclectic figure in the Italian musical scene, he was inspired by pianist and composer Eugenio Fels, Riccardo Risaliti, and the late Luciano Cilio. As a pianist, he has performed in Italy and Europe, always arousing his audience's enthusiasm with his interpretations, at once terse and impassioned. As theorist of "border music", Girolamo De Simone has published books and essays. He has anticipated by several years in many articles and reviews the themes of the contamination between different musical genres and the rejection of experimentalism...full text |
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