Andrea Belfi - Natura Morta (2014)

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Natura Morta, "dead nature" or "still life". This album can be understood as a powerful study of the minute details of the art of electro-acoustic composition, as much as the Renaissance "nature morte" were a masterful display of the artist’s skill in portraying the glow of a ripe fruit, or capturing the light beaming on a vacant chair.
Six tracks, to be listened to as two long explorations in the art of variation and repetition. Layers of drums and percussions intertwine with synth waves making the portrait come to life, detail after detail, until a complex figure emerges from the white canvas. The constant, unsteady sounds, wavering noise, swirling cymbals, and distant feedback gently pull the listener into the picture, letting them enjoy every detail of this beautifully staged compositions.
Recorded at EMS studio, Stockholm, ZKM in Karlsruhe and at the legendary Funkhaus in Berlin, this album mixes influences from both Italian minimalism and the electro-acoustic contemporary scene. Somewhere in between the electronics of Keith Fullerton Whitman, the percussive repetitions of Jon Mueller, and the atmospheric sensibility of Pan-American.
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 New album from Andrea Belfii for the excellent Miasmah label* "Natura Morta, "dead nature" or "still life". This album can be understood as a powerful study of the minute details of the art of electro-acoustic composition, as much as the Renaissance "nature morte" were a masterful display of the artist’s skill in portraying the glow of a ripe fruit, or capturing the light beaming on a vacant chair. Six tracks, to be listened to as two long explorations in the art of variation and repetition. Layers of drums and percussions intertwine with synth waves making the portrait come to life, detail after detail, until a complex figure emerges from the white canvas. The constant, unsteady sounds, wavering noise, swirling cymbals, and distant feedback gently pull the listener into the picture, letting them enjoy every detail of this beautifully staged compositions. Recorded at EMS studio, Stockholm, ZKM in Karlsruhe and at the legendary Funkhaus in Berlin, this album mixes influences from both Italian minimalism and the electro-acoustic contemporary scene. Somewhere in between the electronics of Keith Fullerton Whitman, the percussive repetitions of Jon Mueller, and the atmospheric sensibility of Pan-American." - boomkat

The Italian electroacoustic composer Andrea Belfi has announced a new album, Natura Morta. This LP is his first solo work since 2012’s Wege, though earlier this year he released Dust & Mirrors as a member of the Andrea Belfi/David Grubbs/Stefano Pilia trio. Unlike Wege’s grainy explorations of electroacoustic systems, or Dust & Mirror’s quasi post-rock dynamics, Natura Morta marks a full-on immersion in experimental composition for the Veneto-born musician.
With a clear pictorial inspiration, the album’s title references Renaissance ‘still lifes’ while describing Belfi’s working method: an intense focus on detail that progressively erupts into a complex figure. Indeed, Caravaggio may have spent a few days on a single fig leaf, but one cannot consider his Canestra di frutta anything but a masterful study of light and its representation (with a neat trompe l’oeil to boot). In Natura Morta Belfi pursues a similar approach, adopting sustain and repetition as primary tools to work on an aural canvas, which, after a slow and careful development, results in pieces of opulent tension and truly tactile beauty. Moreover, Natura Morta qualifies as an accomplished synthesis of Belfi’s work up to date, fusing the structurally ambitious ambient pieces of 2006’s Between Neck & Stomach, the comparatively more chill synth waves of 2008’s Knots and Merge’s minimalist leanings.
Andrea Belfi started as a punk rock drummer in his teens and through most of the past decade served as instrumental-rock combo Rosolina Mar’s percussionist, and has kept rhythmic exploration at the forefront of his work ever since. A compulsive collaborator, Belfi is currently playing drums with Mike Watt’s Il sogno del Marinaio (with Stefano Pilia in tow too), but has worked with a plethora of artists in the past, including: Aidan Baker, Carla Bozulich (most recently on her album Boy), BJ Nilsen, and Renato Rinaldi, among many others.
Partially recorded at Berlin’s Funkhouse and mastered by Nils Frahm, Natura Morta will be out on November 11 via Miasmah. - jrodriguez6

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Andrea Belfi is a drummer, electroacoustic musician and composer. His projects and collaborations extend to diverse musical fields, from rock to electroacoustic experimentation, from avant-folk to radical improvisation, from audio/visual performance to sound installation.

Il Sogno del Marinaio “Mud Puddle /We come to Learn” 7″ ORG Music 2014	Carla Bozulich “Boy” LP/CD/DL Constellation 2014	Belfi/Grubbs/Pilia “The Wired Salutation“LP ABCD LP 2014	Il Sogno del Marinaio “Canto Secondo” LP/CD Clenchedwrench 2014

Hobocombo “Moondog Mask” CD/LP Trovarobato Parade Lineria 2013	The Swifter + David Maranha “Live at Maria Matos” CD Entr’acte 2014	Belfi/Grubbs/Pilia “Dust & Mirrors“ LP/CD/DL Blue Chopsticks 2014	B/B/S/ “Coltre/Manto“ LP Midira 20146

Il Sogno del Marinaio “La Busta Gialla” CD Clenchedwrench 2013	B/B/S/ “Brik Mask” Lp+CD Miasmah 2013	B/B/S/ “Half Moon” 7″ Miasmah 2013	Simonelli/Grubbs/ Maranha/Belfi “11 intrusions” CD Bolt Records 2013 on of Vesta 2006

Andrea Belfi “WEGE” CD ROOM40 2012	Andrea Belfi “dubbing & doubling” LP ltd. ROOM40 2012	The Swifter “the Swifter” LP/FLAC Wormhole 2012	Craxi “dentro i battimenti delle rondini” CD Tannen records 2012

Scarnella & Fluorescent Pigs Split 10″ Wallace/Phonometak 2010	Belfi/Grubbs/Pilia trio “Onrushing Cloud” LP Blue Chopsticks 2010	Hobocombo “Now that is the…” CD Trovarobato/Parade 2011	Belfi/Schick “The Myth of Persistence of Vision Revisited” Zarek CD 2011

Robert Schabus “WEG|POT|VIA” DVD Unikum 2009	Andrea Belfi Machinefabriek “Pulses and Places” CD Korm Plastic 2009	Paul Baran “Panoptic” CD Fangbomb 2010	Tumble “for tumbling” CD Die Schachtel 2010

Av/Vv “Redrawn” CD No Label 2009	Damo Suzuki Network “tutti i colori del silenzio” CD Wallace/Palustre records 2009	Aa/Vv “Leaves of life” CD Borne records 2009	Larkin Grimm & Rosolina Mar “S/T” 7″ vinyl Wallace/Holiday records 2009

Christa Pfangen “Watch me getting back the end” CD Die Schachtel 2007	Aa/Vv “Crows of the World” 2XCD Last Visible Dog records 2007	Rosolina Mar meets Trumans Water Split CD Wallace records Robortradiorecords 2007	Andrea Belfi “Knots” CD Die Schachtel 2008

Andrea Belfi & Mattia Coletti “key on a tongue” 3″CD-R Frame records 2005	Den&Breadfast “Acoustic& Semiacoustic” CD-R Sachimay recordings 2006	Aa/Vv “Song for another place Vol.1″ CD Urtovox 2006	Andrea Belfi & “Between Neck & Stomach” CD Hapna records 2006

Medves “Lives in Medves” LP Fringesrecordings 2004	Aa/Vv “Lo Zecchino d’oro dell’underground” CD Snowdonia 2005	Rosolina Mar “Before and After Dinner” CD/LP Wallace records 2005	Aa/Vv “Invisible Pyramid” 6XCD LastVisible Dog 2005

Aa/Vv “P.O. BOX 52 vol.1″ CD Wallace records 2003	Andrea Belfi & RCF “Fata Morgana” CD-R S’Agita records 2003	Rosolina Mar “Rosolina Mar” CD-R Wallace records 2004	Lecrevisse “Le Piccole Foglie” Ep CD Jestrai records 2004

Superplatani “è una vita meravigliosa” CD-R Kolossal Records 1998	Andrea Belfi “Ned n°2″ CD-R Chocolateguns 2001	Rosolina Mar “Hanno ucciso Storius a Rosolina Mare” CD-R No label 2002	Lecrevisse “Due” CD Jestrai records 2003

Gilda “S/T” CS demotape 1995	Chipmunks “Con i colori del cielo” CS demotape 1996	Gilda “S/T” 7″ vinyl Halley records 1997	Bramagnoseologica “Nel ventre del nulla” CD Biba records 1998 Son of Vesta 2006