Sometimes few notes or a little melody are enough to fell in love with an artist. Sometimes you need to search, to go deep in the earth of the sound.
With Enomìsossab both these possibilities are true, and they coexist together for the listener. In this album the very beginning of “L’Elefantessa e la Leonessa Matta” shines with the clarity of the vocalisation. And “El Mantra”, following, sediments layers of vibrant, tactile sound material using vocals over a carpet of strings.
And the other tracks drawn the “map of chants” of this young Italian artist, heir of the great Demetrio Stratos and few other “singers” of extended techniques. Enomìsossab (or, vice versa, Simone Basso) find, with this second CD, the key to open the door of a research, “classically” suspended between rock and experimentation, between popular culture and avant-garde roots.
“Co Coron Fon Fin Fun” is a vocal trick; “L’Ombra di Mezzogiorno”, is a “case of song” with class; “Crushed by the wheels of industry” is the homage to the “punk” that’s gone, a kind of dark ballad “a la Nick Cave”.
And the two versions of “4 e 33”, with John Cage – the “origin of all sounds” – as a pre-text, are a kind of avant-garde electro… more
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released April 28, 2008
Enomisossab: voices and choir, voce e corii
Architorti (Efix Puleo, violin; Elena Saccomandi, viola; Marco Rubino, cello and arrangements; Saverio Miele, doble bass)
Roberto Leardi: percussions
Franco Gullotta: electronics
Luca Miti: vocoder and electronics
Alessandro Cerratti: electronics
Composed by Enomisossab, except track 2, 4, 5 and 8 (see individual info).
Recorded (April-December 2006), mixed (December 2006, July 2007) and mastered (on September 14, 2007) by Riccardo Parravicini at Modulo Studio, Cuneo.
Artwork (sculpture) by Arianna Carossa.
Graphic design by Alice Antognozzi and Lorenzo Antognozzi.
Executive production by Giovanni Antognozzi.