Downtown Ethnic Music, by giovanni di domenico

Downtown Ethnic Music

by giovanni di domenico

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	1.	Gap-Filling 02:38
	2.	Yoghurt To Yoga 08:09
	3.	SKJ 06:20
	4.	Light Egg Wait The Bill Play Chair 02:41
	5.	Killjoy 01:53
	6.	Teratology 03:47
	7.	Cash Cow 06:22
	8.	Camera Lucida 04:11
	9.	Soft On Demand 05:00

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Originally released by Die Schachtel.
Thanks to Bruno & Fabio!

Binding a deep social and political conscious with rigorous musical experimentation, the Brussels based, Italian pianist, performer, composer, Giovanni Di Domenico, delivers Downtown Ethnic Music, the 4th instalment of Die Schachtel’s Decay Music series, focused on inspired contemporary experimental efforts in the ambient, ethereal, and emotively abstract music.

Over the last decade or so, Giovanni Di Domenico has carved a deep path through a diverse number of discrete fields within experimental music, working in various ensembles - Abschattungen, AufHeben, Bonjintan, Cement Shoes, Delivery Health, Going, etc. - as well as producing a discography of critically heralded solo efforts, and intimate collaborations with Jim O'Rourke, Tatsuhisa Yamamoto, Akira Sakata, Arve Henriksen, Tatsuhisa Yamamoto, Alexandra Grimal, Nate Wooley, Chris Corsano, and others.

Downtown Ethnic Music encounters Di Domenico reimagining the future of urban music, pluming the mysterious and emotive depths of self, to arrive at vision of sonorous utopia, radically divergent from those of the past. Hybridizing numerous forms of musical practice, while making a conceptual nod to Jon Hassell’s notion of the "fourth world”, as well as the cross-temporal transnationalism of Roberto Musci, Aktuala, Futuro Antico, and the Third Ear Band, Di Domenico’s vision of democracy - rendered through the creative metaphors of sound - is a true to life, bristling conflict, as open-ended as it is ordered, and as dramatic and tense as it is beautiful, playful, and refined.

A colorful tapestry of ideas, experiences, histories, and reference points, woven from a pallet of electronics, synthesis, and various acoustic sources - the intervening rhythms of drummer João Lobo, vocals by Pak Yan Lau and Patshiva CIE women choir, the horns of Ananta Roosens and Jordi Grognard etc. - across the length of Downtown Ethnic Music, the boundaries between idiom, expressive concept, collective, and individual blur, giving way to a visionary, forward-thinking rendering of electroacoustic music, that subtly reminds us of the social and political potential of art.

Seamlessly incorporating bubbling electronic abstraction, sprawling ambience and long tones, throbbing kosmische, acoustic free improvisation, and the human voice, Giovanni Di Domenico’s Downtown Ethnic Music represents a high-water mark in an already astounding career. Issued by Die Schachtel in a one-time edition of 250 copies, pressed to 180g marble vinyl and housed in a pro-printed inner sleeve and jacket, contained in a silk-screen PVC sleeve.

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released February 18, 2021

recorded at The Nest Cellar, Theatre 140 and Theatre La Balsamine Brussels, and in so... many... other.. places...

with the lovely help of, and with great thanks to:

João Lobo: drums/cymbals on Gap-Filling & Camera Lucida
Pak Yan Lau: voice on Light, Egg, Wait, The Bill, Play, Chair
Ananta Roosens: trumpet on Camera Lucida
Jordi Grognard: clarinet on Camera Lucida
Patshiva CIE women choir: vocals on SKJ and Teratology

extra thanks to everyone @ Theatre 140 and Theatre La Balsamine. and Miquel Casaponsa
cover picture by Bruno Stucchi, design by dinamomilano

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