St. Atom HRT605 - Smiling Autumn Leaves

Smiling Autumn Leaves: Unobtrusive Ambient that flirts with nature sounds and images, revoking familiar, tender (and sometimes repressed) feelings, and often points -and refers to- nostalgic visions.

A quite interesting, home-made production by St. Atom HRT605.

Smiling Autumn Leaves
For more information:
http://statomhrt605.bandcamp.com
http://www.myspace.com/ellanios68

HANS-JOACHIM ROEDELIUS "Piano Piano" ( 1991)

This post is for Richard, friend of Materiali Sonori releases, who have asked to listen to this 1991 album. Beside his pioneering and famous works with edging kraut bands as KLUSTER, CLUSTER, HARMONIA etc., the edging composer Hans-Joachim Roedelius also has released numerous solo works, most of which are ambient-newage-modern classical orientated... and "PIANO PIANO" is one of them. Simple piano sounds and few electronics are enough, for the composer, to draw slowly (piano piano) melodic, quiet, impressionistic landscapes of sometime great sentimental immediacy.

H-J ROEDELIUS Leicht Gemacht

PIANO PIANO (12 tracks)

ARTURO STALTERI "Racconti Brevi" + "...E il Pavone Parlo Alla Luna" ( ITA, 1987)

Second solo work of an expert in 70's electronic -progressive music, who expands here his art of landscapism and unlocks some new realms of imagination...

"...E il pavone..." was out circa early 80's. Reissued in 2004 by MP records.
The 1987 Materiali Sonori edition included as first part, the unreleased compositions "Racconti Brevi".

"Racconti Brevi":
01. Lo speccio di galadriel [5:30]
02.Passi sulle dune [2:30]
03. Danza della londra [1:16]
04. Piccoli pinguini [2:44]
05. Volo notturno [3:01]
"...e il Pavone Parlo Alla Luna":
06. Goa di fronte all' oceano [5:43]
07. Mulini [4:40]
08. ...e il pavone parlo alla luna [1:36]
09. La pescatrice di perle [4:08]
10. Morceau [0:49]
11. Raga Occidentale [17:03]
12. Nel palazzo dei venti [3:22]

ARTURO STALTERI - piano, guitar, synth
RODOLFO RUBERTI - electric guitar
DARIO BELLARDINI - clarinet
RICCARDO MIGLIETTA - tabla
DANTE MAJORANA - flute

Listen here to Raga Occidentale

More ARTURO STALTERI at La Folie Du Jour:

MATERIALI SONORI: The Dreamreality Of Sonic Materials
ARTURO STALTERI - Flowers

JACK OR JIVE "Prayer" (1991) / "Expatriation" (1990), (JAP)

PRAYER, 1991

This post brings you some music from the earliest and most interesting period of Japanese band JACK OR JIVE. Female singer CHAKO does gifted vocals of many aspects and disguises, while MAKOTO HATTURI (her partner also in life since 1992), as the less "visible" figure of the band, deals mainly with music treatments which in their bigger part are electronic. Duo`s music derives from 80`s minimal, dark ambient, ethereal and cinematic sounds, it is also rooted to traditional japanese music and sometimes it just shows its lyrical nostalgia for the simple, unaffected pop and the childhood age.
"PRAYER" was the debut CD album of the band. The very first though JACK OR JIVE `s release was the limited cassette "Expatriation" (1990), a slightly damaged digital copy of which you can also listen here...

PRAYER + extras

EXPATRIATION cassette, 1990

DIFONDO "Himalaya" (ITA, 2008)

Applying ambient/post-rock principles according to which the composition is treated as a research in progress, Sardinian experimentalists DIFONDO keep on studying the relation between acoustic and electronic qualities, between the natural and the processed "voice" of instruments and objects.
DIFONDO`s music is an invitation to a journey near ("microcosmo") and there ("himalaya") where a lot of things depend on the opening of imagination of each listener, a journey that in my opinion is getting more interesting when echoes of a collective memory are caught in their atmospheric net. Considered that DIFONDO is a new band, HIMALAYA creates serious expectations for higher steps.

The music of this post is provided by DIFONDO. The file includes artwork and italian/english enlightening text about band`s music vision.

HIMALAYA (83mb)

http://www.myspace.com/difondo

http://www.difondo.com