Monkeeastronaut | "The Jungle Within" SR218

Type: mp3
Location: Bologna, Italy
Date: 08/04/2020
Tracks: 9
Genre: dark ambient, soundscapes, drone
Section: Indigo

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Monkeeastronaut is a solo project of the Italian musician Riccardo Occhionero (River of No, Collective of One).
The purpose is to bring an experimental mixture of soundscapes trying to evoke for the listener a sense of bewilderment, fear and astonishment, just like a monkey could feel travelling through space. Basically it's an attempt to explore how human curiosity and arrogance can generate forms of evil that are against the nature of things, using innocent living forms as oblivious witnesses of the utopistic reach of a knowledge that is far beyond the present step in evolution.
Oh and there's some random improvisation as well.

"Beware the beast Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death." Planet Of The Apes - 1968.


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Salomè Lego Playset | "F A I L U R E S" SR217

Type: mp3
Location: Bologna, Italy
Date: 12/03/2020
Tracks: 3
Genre: post rock, soundscapes, art rock
Section: Indigo

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Forgotten on a dying hard drive for years, FAILURES is Salomè's latest, and last, work.
An utter failure, but we did the best we could.

Credits:

Tracks recorded in Bologna in 2013 and mixed by Salomè Lego Playset and Fabio Iaci in 2018/19.
Mastering by Fabio Iaci.

Salomè Lego Playset is:

Davide Landi (bass guitar)
Elia Dalla Casa (saxophone)
Jacopo Cinti (drums)
Nicola Boari (guitar and voice)

Track 2, Magenta Jealousy Blackened, features John Duncan on voice and his are the lyrics too.

Front photo by Davide Landi.
Back photo by Giancarlo Morieri
Inner photo by Nicola Boari
Art direction by Matteo Linari


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NUER | "GAAR" SR210

Type: mp3
Location: Bologna, Italy
Date: 25/09/2019
Tracks: 10
Genre: techno, punk
Section: Indigo

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GAAR picks up the skeleton of the Nuer's previous EP and adds a more vigorous rhythmical structure and textures, creating a sonic hybrid torn between punk and techno.

Noise. Distorsions. Chants.

GAAR.


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River of No | "The Endless EP" SR200

Type: mp3
Location: Bologna, Italy
Date: 23/10/2018
Track: 3
Duration: 00:26:59
Genre: Postrock, Noiserock, Stoner
Section: Indigo

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Salomè Lego Playset | "Live @ Shinjuku Nine Spices" SR177

Type: mp3
Location: Shinjuku Nine Spices, Tokyo
Date: 21/06/2008
Track: 1
Duration: 00:24:19
Genre: Postrock, improv, instrumental
Section: Indigo

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Live @ Shinjuku Nine Spices "Majestic Vibration", Tokyo, organized by Tsuchiya of Senseless Records of Hachioji. Dedicated to Tsuchiya Ryo.

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Ghobi | "Ghobi" SR168

Type: mp3
Location: Italy
Date: 2017
Track: 4
Duration: 00:57:48
Genre: Postrock, improv, instrumental, progressive
Section: Indigo

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Ghobi are:
Emanuele Dagostino: Guitar, Keyboard, French Horn, Cetra, Effects
Girolamo Dagostino: Bass, Effects
Mauro Palaroni: Drum, Percussion


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Monkeeastronaut | "Them Specs" SR141

Type: mp3
Location: Italy
Date: 01/12/2011
Track: 14
Genre: drone, slow descent into the depths of the universe, being lost in space with an endless amount of oxygen but nowhere to go
Section: Indigo

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"Beware the beast Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death." Planet Of The Apes - 1968.

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Mister Drey | "There is no "Us" - SR133

Type: cd-r ( limited edition of 40 copies )
Location: Italy
Date: 12/11/2015
Duration: 01:15:00
Track: 14
Genre: experimental, ambient, post-rock, contemporary soul
Section: Indigo
Price: 8 euros

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“There is no”us” is a record about the feeling of loss. About instability, not being able to recognize where you live anymore. A records about doubt, confusion. About finding and deluding each other, failing. Again. About those feelings I couldn’t keep hidden anymore.”

Artwork by Akis Karanos
Photos by Nicola Boari

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Umanzuki | “Tropical Nature of Tiaso” SR104

Type: mp3 & tape
Location: Italy
Date: 2014
Duration: 00:33:48
Track: 1 ( 2 in tape )
Genre: free form, live improvisation, live, tropical orgiastic introspection?
Section: indigo ( released together with Lemming Records )
Price: 6 euros

Tape 6 euros + Shipping

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Live @ CSA Next Emerson
"Started up as a jazzcore trio, passed through the mix of psychedelic and electric free jazz of their second EP, Sonic Birds, nowadays the group Umanzuki flash everyone and with their new album, "Tropical nature of Tiaso", They definitely dissolve their last rock sound in a long sparkling improvisation made of delicate electronic variation, languid and liquid sounds, reduced synthetic rhythms and far memories, for a record that sounds like a tropical island where suddenly sank a very deep dark.
Already at work on a new LP, coming out next year, Umanzuki listen and absorb in a omnivorous way and they are the young, adventurous and credible band that we expected." ( from Lemming Records )

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Salomè Lego Playset | “So Much Was Lost In The Process Of Becoming” SR034

Type: CD / mp3
Location: Italy
Date: 11/11/2011
Duration: 53’08’
Track: 7
Genre: what was lost in the ageing of the self / post-rock, instrumental, depression, anxiety
Section: indigo
Price: 8 euro ( for CD version )

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In un destino predeterminato, così tanto si perde nell'inevitabile processo del divenire. Un divenire d'ascesa o di discesa, di caduta o risalita, ma pur sempre un divenire che nella propria processualità prevede il sacrificio di tutto ciò che è prima, di tutto ciò che si è stato e che si sarà (Heimarmene). L'animale nasce morente, gli viene conferito un destino, che però non tocca mai (L'Animale Morente), l'essere giace sospeso come un palloncino di carta, fragile al vento, destinato a disfarsi (Humanity and Paper Balloons), l'esistenza come una fontana (The fountain) non fa che scorrere, entro un sistema però ben circoscritto, dal quale non si esce mai, e che ci abbevera e ci illude. Il gorgo (The gorge) di quel liquido che scorre, solo per sprofondare, la dolce mattanza di tutto ciò che amiamo (Dolce mattatoio), l'attesa infinita che qualcosa possa cambiare, rinchiuse in fortezze dell'essere in un deserto inutile ed infinito (Il deserto e le fortezze).

In a fate which has long been chosen, so much gets lost in the inevitable process of becoming. A becoming through ascension and descent, through falling and rising, but nonetheless a becoming which in its own processuality foresees the sacrifice of everything which is before, of everything that had been and of everything that will ever be ( Heimarmene ). The animal is born to die, a fate is given upon him, which he will never be aware of ( L'Animale Morente ), the self lies suspended like a paper balloon in thin air, fragile in the wind, doomed to decay ( Humanity And Paper Balloons ). Existence as a fountain ( The Fountain ), which does nothing but erupt and flow, within a short circuit from which it will never escape, but which feeds us and extinguishes our thirsts, showing us illusions of grace. The Gorge of a liquid that flows endless, only to sink deeper and deeper in its spires, the sweet slaughtering of everything we love ( Dolce Mattatoio ), the endless wake for something to change, enclosed in fortresses of an useless and infinite desert ( Il Deserto e Le Fortezze ).


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Mister Drey | “Galileo Was Correct” SR031

Type: mp3
Location: Italy
Date: 2010
Duration: 01:01:28
Track: 8
Genre: what it was to be given: experimental, post-rock, soundscapes, instrumental
Section: indigo

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This album was born from the combination of 2 factors: another long period of isolation and the purchase of an electric guitar, which I had wanted since teenagehood. It was born naturally in a couple of months, and it is my first attempt into doing something which could resemble composing. I am glad of the result, a strange feeling for me, but I cannot but realize how the things I record end up so different from what I actually listen to, but this may be not that surprising after all.
I will dedicate this album to the passing of time...

"Observe this desert, its ruins,
Its shredded columns, its now empty pavilions.
Once a throne shined within it, and every place issued beauty.
Great kingdoms have lived here and hour or two, but all vanished in nothing".
(‘Omar Khayyam , “Quartine”)

Questo disco nasce dalla combinazione di due fattori: un ennesimo periodo di isolamento e l’acquisto di una chitarra elettrica, oggetto agognato fin dall’adolescenza. E’ nato senza sforzo in un paio di mesi ed è il mio primo vero tentativo di fare qualcosa che si avvicina alla composizione. Sono abbastanza fiero del risultato, cosa già strana di per se, e non posso fare a meno di notare come le cose che registro alla fine non assomiglino se non vagamente a quelle che ascolto, cosa forse non così sorprendente. Dedicherò il disco al passare del tempo.

“Osserva questo deserto castello, i suoi ruderi,
Le sue colonne spezzate, i suoi padiglioni ormai vuoti.
In esso un giorno brillava un trono e da ogni luogo emanava
splendore
Grandi regni vissero un’ora o due, e svanirono nel nulla.”
(‘Omar Khayyam , “Quartine”)

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SLP | “Deliverance of the Self” SR021

Type: mp3
Location: Italy
Date: 2010
Duration: 00:52:00
Track: 8
Genre: religious ecstasy
Section: indigo

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A few years back I finished my first SLP album. At the time I was studying for an exam in Indian studies and I was immersed in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. I channeled or at least tried to channel these readings into a form understandable for me and that is how Slp was born, even if in all of its incompleteness. I have recently resumed reading "religious" topics in particular the work of Csordas, "The Sacred Self" but also the documentary "Jesus Camp".
From this "Deliverance of the Self" a second attempt of getting closer or at least of rendering more comprehensible to me the concept of orthodoxy arose. It is the knowledge of Jim Jones' People's Temple and of their tragic end to have fascinated me mostly. It would be simple to run to faith in the extolded moment of current relativism, but it would be a nonsense, there is as much faith today as there was at the time of Russian orthodox icons, and, if monotheism is no longer sufficient, there are other -isms to replace it but its approach is now voluntary and violently desired with pain, which even leads up to the point of giving up life itself, in order to grasp it if only for a moment. I grew up faithless and am unshakeably materialistic. I have no intention of converting myself or to discover anything, convinced that there is nothing to discover if not our own disarming finitude. But there is no God to subdue to, only an immense gravity of faith which man contains in his soul, in the desperate attempt to overcome his finitude and to rise to a totality that only earth and worms can fill. Still, faith cures, hands are placed on the head and the past surfaces and cleans itself from the pain and the spirits which once mentioned let the soul embrace the Lord once again. Communities rise spontaneously in which ethnic groups find themselves in distant lands and with joy sing the nostalgia for a far-off land which will never be bridged.
Child preachers are brought up halfway between Asakura Shiro, Christ's reincarnation in feudal Japan, and little survivalists that keep the ONU forces away from their property with God's word. Because the struggle for the earth coincides with that for the heavens as in Palestine and in the cargo cult which bring food for a race in extinction.Wilhelm Reich fought against a UFO, the wise dominate man with satanic rituals, hundreds of cults in the south of the world culminate with crowds that panic and end up in massacres. Exactly as the last love parade and Crowley's abbey, which falls to pieces while the golden background of the icons shine with a dimensionless infinity. Every utopia tragically dies but I lack orthodoxy the fanaticism of who is always right because he has the revelation of a Lord, a prophet to whom a supreme Knowledge has donated an illegible emulator to the human ear in order to bring the soul back towards an embrace eternally grateful of being One and One in All.
I envy the child preacher, the reincarnation of Buddha, he who has chosen to extinguish himself and he who explodes in an Iraqi parking lot. As Orion's stars themselves become avantgarde of a reign to come, the reign of our Lord which realizes itself on earth with every miracle, in the tears of a marble Virgin, in the sacred images in a squalid shop in the south of Italy, in the collective weddings and in the tears, tremors and repeated sufferings from incalculable vertigo equal to themselves.

Qualche anno fa realizzai il mio primo album Slp. Al periodo studiavo per un esame di indologia, ed ero immerso nell'induismo, buddismo e jainismo. Incanalai, o almeno tentai, queste letture in una forma a me comprensibile, e così nacque Slp, pur con tutta la sua incompletezza. Recentemente sono tornato a studiare argomenti "religiosi", in particolare l'opera di Csordas, "The Sacred Self", ma anche il documentario "Jesus Camp". E da questo nasce "Deliverance of the Self", un mio secondo tentativo di avvicinarmi, o almeno rendere in forma a me più comprensibile, il concetto di ortodossia. Ma è soprattutto la conoscenza del Peoples Tempe di Jim Jones e della loro tragica fine, ad avermi affascinato. Sarebbe semplice ricorrere alla fede nel tanto decantato momento di relativismo di oggi, ma è una stronzata, c'è tanta fede oggi quanto ce n'era al tempo delle icone russe ortodosse, e se il monoteismo non è più sufficiente, ci sono altri "-ismi" a sostituirlo, il cui avvicinamento è ora però volontario, agognato con violenza, con dolore, fino a dare la vita pur di afferrare le fede per un momento soltanto. Sono cresciuto senza fede, e sono un irremovibile materialista. Non ho alcuna intenzione di convertirmi o scoprire nulla, convinto del fatto che non ci sia altro da scoprire che la propria disarmante finitudine. Ma non c'è alcun Dio al quale sottomettersi, soltanto un'immensa gravità di fede che l'uomo contiene nel proprio animo, nel disperato tentativo di superare tale finitudine, e di poter assurgere ad una totalità che soltanto la terra e i suoi vermi potranno colmare. Eppure la fede guarisce, le mani si impongono sul capo e il passato riaffiora e si deterge dal dolore e dagli spiriti che una volta nominati lasciano l'anima riabbracciare il signore. Comunità sorgono spontanee, in cui gruppi etnici si ritrovano in terre straniere e cantano con gioia la nostalgia di una lontananza mai più colmabile. Predicatori bambini vengon cresciuti, a metà strada fra Asakura Shiro, la reincarnazione di Gesu nel Giappone feudale, e piccoli survivalist che con la parola del Signore tengono le forze ONU lontane dalla propria proprietà. Perché la lotta per la terra coincide con quella per i cieli, come in Palestina e nel culto dei caghi che portano gli alimenti per una razza in estinzione. Wilhelm Reich combatté contro un Ufo, gli Illuminati dominano gli uomini con riti satanici, centinaia di culti nel sud del mondo culminano con folle che cadono nel panico e finiscono in stragi. Esattamente come l'ultima love parade, e l'abbazia di Crowley che cade a pezzi, mentre lo sfondo dorato delle icone rifulge di un'infinità senza dimensioni. E ogni utopia cade nella morte, tragicamente, eppure mi manca l'ortodossia, il fanatismo di chi può avere ragione sempre perché è rivelato dalla parola di un signore, di un profeta, al quale una Conoscenza suprema ha donato un emulo ineleggibile all'umano orecchio, per ricondurre l'anima verso un abbraccio eternamente grato d'esser Uno e Uno nel Tutto.
Invidio il predicatore bambino, la reincarnazione del Buddha, colui che ha scelto d'estinguersi e colui che esplode in un parcheggio iracheno. Come Stelle D'Orione di fanno avanguardia di un regno a venire, il regno di nostro signore, che in ogni miracolo si realizza in terra, nelle lacrime di una vergine di marmo, nei santini di uno squallido spaccio del sud d'Italia, nei matrimoni collettivi e nelle lacrime, tremori e cordogli ripetuti uguali a se stessi da incalcolabili vertigini.


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Culto dell'Annientamento | “Noi non siamo Nulla” SR018

Type: mp3
Location: Italy
Date: 2010
Duration: 01:10:00
Track: 7
Genre: industrial, dark ambient
Section: indigo

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I kept a musical diary, I noted dreams and nightmares on it, I remembered the days. Till I found that life is just a big empty, boring spaces between panic attacks. Two years in 70 minutes, which I played not to tell.

Tenere un diario sonoro, su cui annotare sogni ed incubi, in cui ripercorrere le giornate. Fino a rendersi conto che tutta la propria vita e quella altrui non è altro che un immenso vuoto, noia fra un attacco di panico e l'altro.
Due anni in 70 minuti, che ho suonato per non dover raccontare a parole.


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Salomè Lego Playset | “Contre La Vie, Contre La Morte” SR001

Type: CDr / mp3
Location: Italy
Date: march 2007
Duration: 00:44:08
Track: 7
Genre: folk, ambient, experimental, soundscapes, postrock
Section: indigo

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"Contre la Vie, Contre la Morte" is born on the readings of Céline, Junger and Houellebecq but especially from painful life experiences. What can be understood is that life, at least ours, can only try to survive in the continuous extension of the domain of the struggle. A fight for internal survival which is only secondarily human. There is no collective sense that can keep us fellows in the absence of love for life itself, which becomes unaccounted for in the daily imposition of existing, existing without a cause nor a desire if not to extinguish ourselves together with our dearest ones.

"Contre la Vie, Contre la Morte" nasce dalle letture di Céline, Junger e Houellebecq, ma soprattutto da esperienze di vita dolorose. Tutto ciò che si può comprendere, è che le, almeno nostre, esistenze non possono che cercare di sopravvivere nella continua estensione della lotta. Una lotta per la sopravvivenza interiore, e solo secondariamente umana. Non c'è senso collettivo che possa tenerci sodali, in assenza dell'amore per la vita stessa, che viene a mancare nella sopraffazione quotidiana che è esistere, esistere senza alcuno scopo né desiderio, se non di estinguersi insieme a coloro che ci sono più cari.


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