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Paraadiso, Unison (2021)

August 28, 2021 By Professor Arielle Saiber

“TSVI & Seven Orbits debut their Paraadiso* project with a whorl of sweeping choral arrangements and staggering rhythms for Shanghai’s SVBKVLT powerhouse. Inspired by Italian folk music, noise, ancient compositions and rituals, the result is a sort of widescreen 4D soundworld, something like Enigma/FSOL’s Lifeforms bolstered by smashed/syncopated hard drums and emo arpeggios rendered in slow motion.

“Unison is the duo’s conception of ritual music for contemporary, collective physical experience, aka the rave. With a masterful grasp of technoid dramaturgy, its 10 tracks draw on ancient choral traditions as much as up-to-the-second rhythmic diffusion styles to suggest new ways of moving and being moved, with a pointed focus on synchronising social action and reaction.

“Following their 2020 debut, Seven Orbits approaches the project from an audio-visual background, bringing a highly animated structure to TSVI’s rugged rhythmic proprioceptions. Unison was created by the pair to be performed in live context with visual accompaniment, and clearly conveys a strong sense of movement through the audio alone, coming close to the kind of balletic dynamics of Jlin and Second Woman.

“For the strongest examples we advise checking the lush choral lather and polymetric slosh of ‘Liquid Matter’ finding the duo at their most uplifting, the knuckled scuzz of ‘Berserk’ for their rudest workout, or the killer arrangement of haunting ancient chorales and bombed out dembow swag in ‘Riflesso,’ coming off like Laszlo Hortobagyi meets Paul Marmota at their darkest and most theatric.”   —Boomkat, see also their artist statement on bandcamp

The final track is titled “Paradiso terrestre.”

* The spelling of the group’s name as ‘Paraadiso’ is intentional

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2021, Earthly Paradise, Electronic, England, Experimental Electronic, Italy, Paradiso, Paradiso Terrestre

Dante, Divine Comédie (EP)

July 5, 2018 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

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Divine Comédie is the title of an EP released by Dante on July 2, 2018. Digital download available for purchase on TONN Bandcamp.

Listen to Part 2 on TONN Bandcamp or Soundcloud.

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2018, Electronic, Experimental Electronic, Music, Sound

Sonora Commedia (2009)

June 3, 2013 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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Eerie and beautiful wordless pieces.  Mostly experimental electronic, ambient, cinematic, and new classic, but also some drone, techno, alt rock, and metal tracks (the latter few genres especially for Inferno).

The 3 CDs have pieces written for all 100 cantos by 33 different musicians.  Each musician wrote for a given canto number in each canticle– Krell, for example, wrote for Inferno 20, Purgatorio 20, and Paradiso 20. For Inferno 34, however, a group of musicians collaborated.

Full album on Spotify, or available for purchase here.

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2009, Alt Rock, Ambient, Drone, Experimental Electronic, Italy, Metal, New Classical, Techno

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