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Andrea Belfi - Natura Morta (2014)

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Natura Morta, "dead nature" or "still life". This album can be understood as a powerful study of the minute details of the art of electro-acoustic composition, as much as the Renaissance "nature morte" were a masterful display of the artist’s skill in portraying the glow of a ripe fruit, or capturing the light beaming on a vacant chair.
Six tracks, to be listened to as two long explorations in the art of variation and repetition. Layers of drums and percussions intertwine with synth waves making the portrait come to life, detail after detail, until a complex figure emerges from the white canvas. The constant, unsteady sounds, wavering noise, swirling cymbals, and distant feedback gently pull the listener into the picture, letting them enjoy every detail of this beautifully staged compositions.
Recorded at EMS studio, Stockholm, ZKM in Karlsruhe and at the legendary Funkhaus in Berlin, this album mixes influences from both Italian minimalism and the electro-acoustic contemporary scene. Somewhere in between the electronics of Keith Fullerton Whitman, the percussive repetitions of Jon Mueller, and the atmospheric sensibility of Pan-American.
- www.miasmah.com/recordings/miacd029.html

 New album from Andrea Belfii for the excellent Miasmah label* "Natura Morta, "dead nature" or "still life". This album can be understood as a powerful study of the minute details of the art of electro-acoustic composition, as much as the Renaissance "nature morte" were a masterful display of the artist’s skill in portraying the glow of a ripe fruit, or capturing the light beaming on a vacant chair. Six tracks, to be listened to as two long explorations in the art of variation and repetition. Layers of drums and percussions intertwine with synth waves making the portrait come to life, detail after detail, until a complex figure emerges from the white canvas. The constant, unsteady sounds, wavering noise, swirling cymbals, and distant feedback gently pull the listener into the picture, letting them enjoy every detail of this beautifully staged compositions. Recorded at EMS studio, Stockholm, ZKM in Karlsruhe and at the legendary Funkhaus in Berlin, this album mixes influences from both Italian minimalism and the electro-acoustic contemporary scene. Somewhere in between the electronics of Keith Fullerton Whitman, the percussive repetitions of Jon Mueller, and the atmospheric sensibility of Pan-American." - boomkat

The Italian electroacoustic composer Andrea Belfi has announced a new album, Natura Morta. This LP is his first solo work since 2012’s Wege, though earlier this year he released Dust & Mirrors as a member of the Andrea Belfi/David Grubbs/Stefano Pilia trio. Unlike Wege’s grainy explorations of electroacoustic systems, or Dust & Mirror’s quasi post-rock dynamics, Natura Morta marks a full-on immersion in experimental composition for the Veneto-born musician.
With a clear pictorial inspiration, the album’s title references Renaissance ‘still lifes’ while describing Belfi’s working method: an intense focus on detail that progressively erupts into a complex figure. Indeed, Caravaggio may have spent a few days on a single fig leaf, but one cannot consider his Canestra di frutta anything but a masterful study of light and its representation (with a neat trompe l’oeil to boot). In Natura Morta Belfi pursues a similar approach, adopting sustain and repetition as primary tools to work on an aural canvas, which, after a slow and careful development, results in pieces of opulent tension and truly tactile beauty. Moreover, Natura Morta qualifies as an accomplished synthesis of Belfi’s work up to date, fusing the structurally ambitious ambient pieces of 2006’s Between Neck & Stomach, the comparatively more chill synth waves of 2008’s Knots and Merge’s minimalist leanings.
Andrea Belfi started as a punk rock drummer in his teens and through most of the past decade served as instrumental-rock combo Rosolina Mar’s percussionist, and has kept rhythmic exploration at the forefront of his work ever since. A compulsive collaborator, Belfi is currently playing drums with Mike Watt’s Il sogno del Marinaio (with Stefano Pilia in tow too), but has worked with a plethora of artists in the past, including: Aidan Baker, Carla Bozulich (most recently on her album Boy), BJ Nilsen, and Renato Rinaldi, among many others.
Partially recorded at Berlin’s Funkhouse and mastered by Nils Frahm, Natura Morta will be out on November 11 via Miasmah. - jrodriguez6

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Andrea Belfi is a drummer, electroacoustic musician and composer. His projects and collaborations extend to diverse musical fields, from rock to electroacoustic experimentation, from avant-folk to radical improvisation, from audio/visual performance to sound installation.






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Il Sogno del Marinaio
“Mud Puddle
/We come to Learn”
 7″
ORG Music 2014
Carla Bozulich
“Boy” LP/CD/DL
Constellation 2014
Belfi/Grubbs/Pilia
“The Wired SalutationLP
ABCD LP 2014
Il Sogno del Marinaio
“Canto Secondo” LP/CD
Clenchedwrench 2014




 dust & mirrors  ColtreManto_cover-web_1
Hobocombo
“Moondog Mask” CD/LP
Trovarobato Parade
Lineria 2013
The Swifter +
David Maranha

“Live at Maria Matos” CD
Entr’acte 2014
Belfi/Grubbs/Pilia
“Dust & Mirrors LP/CD/DL
Blue Chopsticks 2014
B/B/S/
“Coltre/Manto LP
Midira 2014
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Il Sogno del Marinaio
“La Busta Gialla” CD
Clenchedwrench 2013
B/B/S/
“Brik Mask” Lp+CD
Miasmah 2013
B/B/S/
“Half Moon” 7″
Miasmah 2013
Simonelli/Grubbs/
Maranha/Belfi
“11 intrusions” CD
Bolt Records 2013

on of Vesta 2006




Andrea Belfi
“WEGE” CD
ROOM40 2012
Andrea Belfi
“dubbing & doubling” LP ltd.
ROOM40 2012
The Swifter
“the Swifter”
LP/FLAC
Wormhole 2012
Craxi
“dentro i battimenti
delle
rondini” CD
Tannen records 2012




Scarnella &
Fluorescent Pigs

Split 10″
Wallace/Phonometak 2010
Belfi/Grubbs/Pilia trio
“Onrushing Cloud” LP
Blue Chopsticks 2010
Hobocombo
“Now that is the…” CD
Trovarobato/Parade 2011
Belfi/Schick
“The Myth of Persistence
of Vision Revisited”
Zarek CD 2011




Robert Schabus
“WEG|POT|VIA” DVD
Unikum 2009
Andrea Belfi
Machinefabriek
“Pulses and Places” CD
Korm Plastic 2009
Paul Baran
“Panoptic” CD
Fangbomb 2010
Tumble
“for tumbling” CD
Die Schachtel 2010




Av/Vv
“Redrawn” CD
No Label 2009
Damo Suzuki Network
“tutti i colori del silenzio” CD
Wallace/Palustre records
2009
Aa/Vv
“Leaves of life” CD
Borne records 2009
Larkin Grimm &
Rosolina Mar
“S/T” 7″ vinyl
Wallace/Holiday records
2009




Christa Pfangen
“Watch me getting back
the end” CD
Die Schachtel 2007
Aa/Vv
“Crows of the World”
2XCD
Last Visible Dog records
2007
Rosolina Mar meets
Trumans Water
Split CD
Wallace records
Robortradiorecords
2007
Andrea Belfi
“Knots” CD
Die Schachtel 2008




Andrea Belfi &
Mattia Coletti
“key on a tongue” 3″CD-R
Frame records 2005
Den&Breadfast
“Acoustic&
Semiacoustic”
CD-R
Sachimay recordings 2006
Aa/Vv
“Song for another place
Vol.1″
CD
Urtovox 2006
Andrea Belfi &
“Between Neck &
Stomach”
CD
Hapna records 2006




Medves
“Lives in Medves” LP
Fringesrecordings 2004
Aa/Vv
“Lo Zecchino d’oro
dell’underground”
CD
Snowdonia 200
5
Rosolina Mar
“Before and After
Dinner”
CD/LP
Wallace records 2005
Aa/Vv
“Invisible Pyramid” 6XCD
LastVisible Dog 2005




Aa/Vv
“P.O. BOX 52 vol.1″ CD
Wallace records 2003
Andrea Belfi & RCF
“Fata Morgana” CD-R
S’Agita records 2003
Rosolina Mar
“Rosolina Mar” CD-R
Wallace records 2004
Lecrevisse
“Le Piccole Foglie” Ep CD
Jestrai records 2004




Superplatani
“è una vita meravigliosa”
CD-R
Kolossal Records 1998
Andrea Belfi
“Ned n°2″ CD-R
Chocolateguns 2001
Rosolina Mar
“Hanno ucciso Storius
a Rosolina Mare”
CD-R
No label 2002
Lecrevisse
“Due” CD
Jestrai records 2003




Gilda
“S/T” CS
demotape 1995
Chipmunks
“Con i colori del cielo” CS
demotape 1996
Gilda
“S/T” 7″ vinyl
Halley records 1997
Bramagnoseologica
“Nel ventre del nulla” CD
Biba records 1998
Son of Vesta 2006

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