Die Schachtel's Decay Music series was launched by the Milan imprint in late 2019 to highlight inspired contemporary experimental efforts in the ambient, ethereal, and emotively abstract music, which was inaugurated by Vértice’s Besoch Trauma, a hitherto unknown hook-up between industrial pioneer Maurizio Bianchi, Saverio Evangelista (Esplendor Geometrico), and Juan Manuel Cidrón, a rich tapestry of creatively challenging sound - a hypothetical imagining of historic minimalism and ambient music, bred with industrial and punk. Vértice was followed by Stefano Pilia’s In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni, where the respected Italian guitar player/electro-acoustic composer, drifts between experimental electronics, and quietly rustic ambient folk themes. The title was extremely well received and sold out very quickly. It has been repressed in a limited run of 100 copies for this occasion.
As usual with Die Schachtel, the design by Bruno Stucchi/Dinamomilano plays a relevant part in the overall charm of the series. The records are pressed on 180g silver marbled vinyl, and are housed in heavy matt black jacket with special illustrations by contemporary artists, interacting with a silkscreened post-industrial alchemic-looking custom-design typeface, silkscreened on a hi-quality clear pvc sleeve that hosts the jacket.
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As long as you come to my garden is a tribute to the Armenian troubadour Sayat Nova, through his lyrics and freely inspired by the cult movie about his life: "The color of the pomegranates" (Nrran Guyny, 1968, USSR) directed by Sergei Parajanov.
The feature film tells the life of the poet, who lived in the seventeenth century, from childhood in the royal court, to retirement until his death in the monastery of Haghpat, through a series of episodes, static like paintings that do not tell but show, evoke, they suggest through metaphors, analogies, surrealist flair, dreamlike landscapes, liturgical pauses.
The six tracks are inspired by the dreamlike imagery contained in the movie, weaving sound textures ranging from ambient to noise, to references to the musical tradition of the Middle East.
Gianluca Ceccarini and Alessandro Ciccarelli alternate, without fixed roles, with analog synths, drones, amplified common objects, generative music, audio samples from the film and acoustic instruments such as the tar, a stringed instrument of Persian origin, the trombone and the cornet. In addition, two of the songs on the album contain Sayat Nova’s poems recited in Persian by Nahid Rezashateri.
The sound materials are revealed gradually like episodes, evoking the visual suggestions staged by Parajanov in the film.
As long as you come to my garden is intended as an imaginative journey to distant spaces and indefinite archaic times.
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"As Long As You Come To My Garden è stampato su vinile nero pesante di alta qualità in 300 copie, e può facilmente rappresentare uno dei debutti più emozionanti non solo dell’etichetta Die Schachtel, ma dell’intero panorama della nuova musica creativa italiana."
The New Noise
"As Long as You Come to my garden è un raffinato prototipo di arte magica tra oblio, memoria, decollo e deriva"
Nazim Comunale su Blow Up
"The video teaser for Damāvand‘s As long as you come to my garden provides an electronic impression, while the album itself is a blend of dark ambient, drone and experimental flavors."
Richard Allen su A Closer Listen
"Registrazioni ambientali e visioni oniriche che spaziano dall'ambient al noise impreziosite dalle letture di alcuni versi del poeta armeno recitate in persiano da Nahid Rezashateri. Quello che prevale (volutamente direi) in tutte le sei tracce è la forte impronta orientale e asiatica, dovuta perlopiù al tar (strumento a corde di origine persiana). Voci sublimali, invasive, sonorità e richiami ancestrali, minareti, musicalità e armonie da Medio Oriente che si intrecciano con abrasiva elettroacustica (...). "
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"A farsi apprezzare è soprattutto la qualità sinestetica di un insieme costruito con misura e cura del dettaglio, attenzione che favorisce la compresenza di linguaggi eterogenei senza creare fratture o attriti dissonanti e regala un ambiente d’ascolto immersivo da osservare a occhi chiusi."
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released April 14, 2023
Release date: April 14, 2023
Label: Die Schachtel
Format: Vinyl/DL
Serie: Decay Music N.6
Composed and performed by Gianluca Ceccarini (electronics, electroacoustic objects, field recordings, tar), Alessandro Ciccarelli (electronics, electroacoustic objects, trumpet, cornet, trombone)
Vocals on tracks 1 and 6 by Nahid Rezashateri
Mixing: La chambre d'Éliane
Vinyl Mastering: Andrea Marutti
Digital Mastering: La chambre d'Éliane
Produced: Fabio Carboni and Bruno Stucchi, Die Schachtel
Design, typography: Bruno Stucchi, dinamomilano.com
Photography: Gianluca Ceccarini, Alessandro Ciccarelli, Nahid Rezashateri
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