Format: CD
Label: Backwards - BWCD08 (Italy, 2023)
Edition: 300 copies in a 350gr reverse board digipack
Genre: Experimental, Ambient, Drone
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Info & Description (from the original label info):
A fortunate and successful “between the romantic and the analytical, the sentimental and the Pragmatic”. This double soul lives inside the ambient-electronics contained in ‘Rote Um’, the debut-album by the artistic partnership between TeZ (Maurizio Martinucci, member of Clock DVA since 2010) and Saverio Rosi (aka ‘Leastupperbound’ and member of the band ‘Open to the Sea’ with Enrico Coniglio and Matteo UIggeri). Both Italian composers based in Amsterdam, TeZ and Rosi top a ten-year friendship by exchanging their musical skin to generate 8 gems of great intensity, divided between icy dronic expanses and warm electroacoustic embraces. The main feature of ‘Rote Um’
is its complementarity: Rosi’s analog experiments, imbued with low-fi and field-recording, are nestled in the endless digital landscapes, with cold hues and full of hypnagogic sensations, painted by TeZ. All this gives birth to a synesthetic and touching experience, halfway between the moody ambient by Labradford and the nocturnal abstractionism by Mirt. All tracks on ‘Rote Um’ were recorded and mixed in 2022 at Optobunker Studio in Amsterdam, and wizardly mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. The
album is released in two limited editions: CD digipack (300 copies) and cassette (100 copies).
ROTE / BIO
Maurizio Martinucci (aka TeZ) is an Italian musician and interdisciplinary artist, living and working in Amsterdam, who has collaborated with, amongst others, Adi Newton, Scanner, Kim Cascone, Saverio Evangelista, Taylor Deupree, Fabio Orsi, Sonia Cillari, Chris Salter, Honor Harger, Luca Spagnoletti, Joe Drive and Domenico Sciajno. He uses technology as a means to explore perceptual and synesthetic relationships between sound, light and space. TeZ is a veteran of electronic and experimental music and his early releases with M.S.B. and DOSERO date back to the early 90’s. Since 2010 TeZ has been a permanent member of Adi Newton’s seminal British band Clock DVA and a regular contributor with The AntiGroup. His most recent music project PRAGMA marks TeZ’s return to his origins in the fringes of a more visceral Industrial, Ambient and Cosmic music. TeZ’s solo live electronic performances, augmented by Ambisonics spatial sound, are voyages in uncharted sonic territories through field recordings, hypnotic analog sequences and electro-acoustic manipulations.
Saverio Rosi (aka Leastupperbound) has investigated the electroacoustic sound and its “psycho/environmental” implications since 2008. His personal musical research is a synthesis that is substantially a reduction-subtraction of the sound material: a palindrome sound that proceeds by repetition and reversal emerges from this process. He is the founder of Discreetrecords, a label focused on free electronic, avant and improv sounds.”He released works for Secretpress, Dronarivm, Crònica,Laverna, Ephre inprint, Many feet under. He has performed in many festivals and art events and he has released two studio albums as Sentimental Machines (with Attilio Novellino), on Laverna and Dronarivm.