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Cat.#: LONTANO-S-CD27
Release date: 16/09/2022
Format: CD, Digital

The opening piece "Nostalgia" explores and expands the space between two notes in a particular passage of "Adagio Religioso" from Béla Bartók's concerto n.3 for piano and orchestra, an almost scientific attempt to vivisect that melodic cell and observe it at microscope, to try to understand "what is there", why it is precisely in that micropassage that all the melancholy of the world seems to be enclosed.
Also "Remembrance of things past" has the same intent, inspired by the Proustian novel (in particular by Vinteuil's "petite phrase"), and composed using only one sample elaborated from "La Fille aux cheveux de lin" by Claude Debussy.
In "La même vieille chanson" the last fragment of an old melody is repeated stuck in the mind, mixing with the resonances of many day lived. It's based on a loop from Maurice Ravel's "Le Jardin féerique". Also the track three, whose title is a quote from a poem by Montale "Forse un mattino andando in un aria di vetro" ("Maybe one morning walking into an air of glass"), where to the sound of a window creaking in a particularly windy day, an apathetic day between many, a chant joins: in search of an epiphany that illuminates and rip the veil of reality.
Finally "The worlds behind you..." is a dark lullaby under a dusty blanket of noise, and is based on a loop from the "Passacaille" of Ravel's Trio in A minor op.67; while "... are fading" still uses a fragment from "Le Jardin féerique" in decay.

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Scampoli trattenuti del passato in inesorabile dissolvimento, memoria che lentamente si fa polvere pronta ad essere spazzata via da un vento profondamente malinconico. L’Oblio disegnato da Alessandro Barbanera è un processo quieto, minuzioso attuato a partire da particelle minime estrapolate dal repertorio classico e combinate all’elegia di riferimenti letterari, nonché ad una sensibilità ambient-drone fatta di trame flessuose sviluppate su un substrato denso quanto vaporoso.

Visti gli intenti risulta inevitabile tornare ai loop in decadimento del capolavoro di Basinski o alla monumentale opera in sei capitoli eretta da Leyland Kirby sotto l’alias The Caretaker, ma le affinità con entrambi i lavori si fermano all’atmosfera ricercata. La materia plasmata dal musicista umbro, pur con medesimo senso di infinita nostalgia, sceglie la via della reiterazione solo in parte – in modo pronunciato soprattutto in La même vieille chanson – preferendo evolvere come corrente sempre più nebbiosa che ingloba echi ambientali e flebili screziature. Dell’hauntologia di Everywhere at the End of Time possiede la spettralità incrementale, che diviene dominante granulosa nel quasi finale di …are fading. Idealmente infatti il viaggio si chiude con una non-traccia fatta di assoluto silenzio, eco della definitiva caduta nell’oscurità dei ricordi perduti.
(Review by Peppe Trotta - sowhatmusica.wordpress.com/2023/01/05/alessandro-barbanera-oblio)

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released September 16, 2022

Music & photography by: Alessandro Barbanera
Record label: Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series
Publisher: ROHS! RECORDS

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Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series is a division of Rohs! Records.

Est. 2018 - Berlin, Germany.

The label is now located in Sardinia, Italy.

“Lontano” is an Italian word meaning far away, a definition reflected in the label’s logo—a range of mountains seen from a distance.
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