(Make Me A) TRISTE© Mixtape Episode 105: Barbara De Dominicis

Barbara De Dominicis (©Tamari Teliashvili)

Barbara De Dominicis besides using her voice, loves collecting sounds, manipulating them and inventing sound textures. In 2009 she published as a soloist Anti-Gone, a concept album which bases its narrative on Greek mythology. In 2008 she began a collaboration with canadian cellist Julia Kent; their performance (initially under the name of Intermittenze) will soon become a stable project in progress with the name Parallel41 (a musical/ visual/ improvisatory project released internationally on french record label BASKARU in July 2012). Her sound works include Whimsical Cartography – selected among the works which will be exhibited in the collective multimedia show E-ArtQuake in commemoration of the earthquake in Irpinia and Re_di_Sound, a tribute to Marcel Duchamp. Her growing interest in soundscapes leads her to conceive of A tale of two cities: a series of audio collages designed to portray the similarities and differences of two cities which lie on the same parallel, Naples and New York. This work has become a radiowork produced for RadioPapesse vs Radia network, entitled Crossings. Among her current projects Exqusite What [as both curator and creator] a collective inspired by the Surrealist practice  of exquisite corpses dedicated to the creation of an audio-visual web platform; La Reverie/La Sogneria [curator/creator]_a multimedia space linked to dreaming. Besides she curates a series of radio podcasts entitled “The Cat Cinderella” with the aim of promoting the dissemination of works by women artists on the brink between net_art, sound art and audio documentary.

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TRISTE© Radio per Indi(e)pendenze

Francesco Amoroso per TRISTE©

The world is collapsing / Around our ears / I turned up the radio / But I can’t hear it.
(R.E.M. – Radio Song) 

Vi siete mai chiesti quale sia il ruolo della Radio nella diffusione della musica, in questi anni dello streaming selvaggio?
A me capita spesso di farmi domande (oziose) del genere, forse perché la radio è stato un mio grande amore e perché è stata per me il veicolo principale, per tanti anni, per venire in contatto con musica nuova ed eccitante.

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The Lathums – From Nothing To A Little Bit More

Francesco Giordani per TRISTE©

Dovrei parlarvi del nuovo album dei Lathums ma prima vorrei soffermarmi un attimo su La La Land. No, non mi riferisco alla deliziosa pellicola di Damien Chazelle, che periodicamente rivedo in segreto (ma con immutata commozione), bensì al nuovo -venticinquesimo? dubito che in molti possano dirlo con certezza- album dei Guided by Voices.
Un lavoro ispirato, incredibilmente caldo, irresistibilmente vibrante, generoso di riff e melodie che si accendono nel fuoco stesso della loro combustione. Il garage come dovrebbe sempre suonare, l’indie come dovrebbe sempre incantare, il rock come abbiamo imparato ad amarlo, questo è La La Land: scassato, delirante, poverissimo, quasi straccione, eppure a suo modo nobile, eroico, incurante di tutto.

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Scott William Urquhart & Constant Follower – Waves Crash Here (single premiere)

The collaboration: Acclaimed Stirling-based group Constant Follower, led by Stephen McAll, and renowned folk guitarist Scott William Urquhart have announced their forthcoming collaborative album, Even Days Dissolve, which will be released on 14 April 2023. The album follows on from Constant Follower’s debut long-player Neither Is, Nor Ever Was, which was released in 2021 and nominated for the 2022 Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Award. Scott William Urquhart is an acoustic fingerstyle guitarist from Scotland. His debut album, A Recipe For Reverie, was released in January 2020 following a run of self released singles and EPs. Scott’s music has been described as peaceful and meditative and is characterized by single take solo guitar compositions, often in open tunings, released on micro-edition lathe vinyl pressings coupled with original paintings and upcycled sleeve art.

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Julian Never – Pious Fiction

Francesco Amoroso per TRISTE©

Se vi dicessi che in un solo album potreste ascoltare i Magnetic Fields, i Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, i Wild Nothing, i Cure, e un po’ di Echo & The Bunnymen, probabilmente pensereste che si tratti di una strana raccolta che unisce sonorità simili ma provenienti da epoche e luoghi lontani o che magari si tratti di una colonna sonora di qualche bel film indipendente, di quelli che vengono presentati al Sundance e, dopo qualche tempo, finiscono anche per diventare di culto.
E invece no! Non si tratta di alcuna raccolta o colonna sonora, ma di Pious Fiction,ll’album d’esordio di Julian Never, alias di Julian Elorduy, residente a Sacramento, CA ed ex batterista del gruppo MAYYORS.

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