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Pro-dubbed green tape in transparent case with folded J-Card. Edition of 50
Includes unlimited streaming of Surface
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Cassette + Digital Album
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Includes unlimited streaming of Surface
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
"As the tracks are in connection with each other, please listen to the whole album, don't skip between tracks.
I started recording "Surface" after finding an old picture of me.I had forgotten that particular period of my life.
When I looked at that picture, time stopped, I was catapulted backwards in slow-motion flashback, as if I was lost between two parallel times.
Then I tried to rebuild this specific moment with the tracks of this album.
During the recordings I used a grand piano, Farfisa organs, field recordings of my daily life, found sounds, objects, tapes and my voice." - Daniele Veronese
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How do we translate a memory ? That fleeting moment when our perceptions bring fragmented traces of our past into the present. Most of the time, we choose to verbalise, to recontextualise, to share with others through the prism of our language the misty artefacts of our life. Memory can have a simple anecdotal value, but it can also, as with the Proustian narrator, be a true introspective engine. Words make sense, construct the narrative and inscribe it in the experience, but are they not brakes on the emotional charge of the memory ?
Daniele Veronese's work with Surface offers us an alternative to this paradox. The artist has seized upon the tiny components of a flashback to propose a musical form in 5 continuous acts. His releases for Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere. and Grisaille revealed a particular focus on a sculptural practice of sound materials. He applies himself to bringing out in the grain of the piano, for example, an ever more curved sustain, like a sine wave seeking to become a circle. Then the striking of the hammers on the strings appears, not as the centre of the instrumental gesture but as its muted reminiscence.
The voice and the field recordings become one in this powerful wave of sound. Is it the wind or a voice in the distance on track 04 ? Is it a church steeple echoing on track 05 ? In this sense, Surface is as close to the ghostly atmospheres of Burial as it is to the great chimerical spaces of Matthias Puech, making ephemeral hooks to Debussy's La Cathédrale Engloutie. An exercise in memory, plunging deeply into our cortex in search of ubiquitous time.
Daniele Veronese is an Italian born musician and visual artist living in France. His artistic research is based on the study of the connections between sounds, images and materials. With more than twenty years of activity, in solo and with other projects, he has released records for Audio Visuals Atmosphere, Ramble Records, Grisaille, Asbestos Digit, ADN, Improshit. He also has to his credit several participations in art group exhibitions.
credits
released May 19, 2023
composed, mixed & mastered by Daniele Veronese
recorded August 2022 - January 2023.
mastered in February 2023 at Tacoma Studio, Marseille (France).
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