Subterraneans, by Luca Formentini official

Subterraneans

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1.	Hands held as a well 04:45	info	buy track
2.	Ring mod 05:36		buy track
3.	If I stop 04:27		buy track
4.	Digya 03:55		buy track
5.	Steam 02:06		buy track
6.	Su me 05:52		buy track
7.	A better place 03:39		buy track
8.	The 15 03:57		buy track
9.	One to other 01:40		buy track
10.	118 07:36		buy track
11.	Mother 03:53		buy track
12.	Lost alone 04:16		buy track
13.	Undercloud 04:09		buy track
14.	Wood 03:11		buy track
15.	Waterskin 03:52		buy track
16.	Gio's lake 09:47		buy track

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There are a lot of different sounds and moods here, expertly woven into a cohesive whole,with moments of great beauty.
Dods Wiley on Ambient.us, 2004

Still, the overwhelming impression is of guitars used in unusual ways to build up a unique sound space, and it should appeal to fans of the instrument looking for something other than just fast notes and crunchy chords.
Jon Davis for Exposè, 2004

Italian sound-sculptor Luca Formentini uses the guitar as the main tool for his explorations of post-tonal music. Subterraneans (Auditorium, 2003) contains 16 brief vignettes that elucidate the concept. Hands Held As A Well swims through watery and meowing sounds. Ring Mod unleashes a loud, metallic distortion that is then modulated up and down the scale. Sometimes a ghost of a melody appears (If I Stop, Mother), but it is soon engulfed in hostile harmonics. Contrary to what one expects from abstract art, Formentini's experiments exude life: the cacophony in Digya is intensely tragic; the undulating distorion of Su Me sounds almost mystical. and 118 is as tense as a Hitchcock soundtrack, crawling, hissing, flickering, bouncing and, eventually, resting like the emotions of a tortured, chained soul. Gio's Lake is the centerpiece, a concerto for harsh overtones (first movement) that returns to the watery element of the beginning (second movement). Formentini's tragic, post-ambient soundscapes have little in common with the guitar meditations of contemporary avantgarde guitarists. On the other hand, their proto-linguistic structures evoke the similarly linguistically-impaired musique concrete of Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry.
Scaruffi.com, 2004

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released October 12, 2003

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Music composer, sound artist, environmental activist and wine maker who confuses music genre classification.
His ambient inclination, his roots in improvisation and sound research plus the regained use of voice create a magnetic and engaging expanded environment.
He has published and collaborated with Holger Czukay, Robert Rich, Markus Stockhausen, Franck Vigroux, Steve Lawson, Steve Jansen... ... more

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