a r t i s t : Andrea Belfi
t i t l e : Between Neck & Stomach
d a t e : 2006
l a b e l : Hapna
g e n r e : Lo-Fi
r l s. d a t e : Sep/2006
t r a c k s : 06
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 53,3 MB
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Andrea Belfi was born in 1979. He has been playing drums since
the age of fourteen. He studied art in Milan and has been
working in the experimental music field since 2000. In 2002 AB
embarked on a vast project, which, in time, would become
Between Neck & Stomach. The first recordings took place at
Valerio Tricoli's (member of 3/4HadBeenEliminated) house in
Bologna.
Between Neck & Stomach is grounded on two core elements: the
first is the material collected during the unique experiment
of turning a house into "a living creature with its own voice"
(just one example: a synth emitting one continuous note
shaking a cupboard filled with pots, pans and plates). The
second core element is the choice of just one thematic note
per song, around which each track is built and balanced.
In this challenging album the acoustic elements and the
electronic ones mingle, intertwine and sometimes switch
places: the acoustic sounds are treated as they were
electronic, and the actual electronic ones are played at the
very moment. Rhythmic patterns go beyond the mere beat as AB
shapes them in cycles, ever-circling but ever-changing, both
reassuring and surprising. This album sketches imaginary
landscapes where drums, guitars and voices blend into a bunch
of eclectic tracks, which, in spite of their radical
minimalist roots, are definitively worthy of the name 'songs'.
Andrea Belfi's skills in composing and editing is electro
acoustic works were clearly perceivable in his 2002 debut
album, Ned n░2, warmly welcomed and well reviewed by magazines
such as The Wire, Bananafish, Sound Projector.
(http://www.hapna.com/H29.html)
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01-Sandglass [04:57]
02-Extraevil [11:47]
03-Broken shoes [02:27]
04-Sleeping with extraevil [09:59]
05-Her own desert [02:19]
06-Footprints [06:30]
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37:59 min