NOTE: For management reasons the purchase of the physical CD-edition of this album is not available from this page. Please contact me for purchasing information or buy it from my collaborator Andrea Marutti:
hall-of-mirrors.bandcamp.com/album/altered-nights
3rd CD from the acclaimed dark ambient collaboration between Andrea Marutti (Amon, Never Known, among others) and Giuseppe Verticchio (Nimh). Spread out over two CDs and totaling over 100 minutes, there’s a lot to absorb here; organic, textural ambience that’s murky and abstract, uncurling like tendrils of smoke before coalescing into a simulacrum of shadowy figures, to turbulent, more immersive post industrial sounds that prowl the depths of subterranean caverns and forgotten, still radioactive ruins. At its core, this is dark ambient, but with its roughly edged, mildly corrosive machine edges and cascading factory whir, Hall of Mirrors moves into a much more active and cerebral sonic realm. Features contributions from Vestigial , New Risen Throne, and Pietro Riparbelli/ K11, among others. 2 discs in 6 panel eco-wallet, with 4 tracks on one disc, and one 45 minute track on the second. A must for fans of Troum, Terra Sancta, early Zoviet France, and of course all related Andrea Marutti projects.
(Label Press)
released April 27, 2012
Disc 1
Night 1: The Meeting [8:42]
Andrea Marutti: analogue synthesizers, samples, effects, treatments, audio montage
Giuseppe Verticchio: synthesizers, samples, effects, audio montage
Andrea Ferraris: guitar, effects
Andrea Freschi: field recordings, treatments
Night 2: Invocation [20:03]
Andrea Marutti: synthesizers, sampled percussions loop, field recordings, treatments, audio montage
Giuseppe Verticchio: khlui (thai flute), synthesizers, guitar drones, metals, samples, effects, treatments, audio montage
Pietro Riparbelli/K11: short wave radio signals, effects
Night 3: Magmatic Resonance [19:25]
Andrea Marutti: analogue and digital synthesizers, samples, effects, treatments, audio montage
Giuseppe Verticchio: synthesizers, sequencer, guitar drones, voice, effects, treatments, audio montage
New Risen Throne: samples, loops
Vestigial: samples
Night 4: Immaterial Bodies [8:10]
Andrea Marutti: analogue and digital synthesizers, samples, effects, audio montage
Giuseppe Verticchio: synthesizers, violin drones, guitar drones, radio waves, metals, effects, treatments, audio montage
Disc 2
Last Night: Late Summer Ceremony [45:27]
Andrea Marutti: synthesizers, samples, field recordings, effects, treatments, audio montage
Giuseppe Verticchio: synthesizers, sequencer, violin drones, guitar drones, voice, metals, effects, treatments, audio montage
New Risen Throne: samples, loops
Pietro Riparbelli/K11: short wave radio signals, effects
Vestigial: synthesizers
Composed, performed and recorded between May and October 2010 in Milan, Rome and Casaline (AQ), Italy
Mastered in October 2010 by Giuseppe Verticchio
Pictures by Andrea Marutti and Giuseppe Verticchio
Artwork by Andrea Marutti / Afe Creative Laboratories
Special thanks to Jason Mantis, Daniela Gherardi, Philippe Blache and Stefano Gentile
www.andreamarutti.com
www.oltreilsuono.com/nimh