Label: 13 - sps2028

軍事シェルター"バンカー"内部でエレクトロアコースティックを録音したり、Hermann Nitsch、Nurse With Wound、Jacob Kirkegaardをネタにした解体ミックスをやったりと、非常に興味深い音作りに挑戦し続けるこのレーベル御馴染みの作家Gianluca Becuzzi。今回はシャーマニズムにフォーカスし、儀式を通して得られるトランス状態を作り上げるというコンセプトで制作された気合の2枚組CD。自身の声をマントラとして使用、そして分厚く濁ったギタードローンを放射し眩暈を誘う音場を作り上げる激ヤバの濃密サウンド。氏の音源の中でも異質な一枚ですがこれは大推薦。

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The shaman, the witch and the artist are three different figures, united by the desire for transcendence. Overcoming the material contingencies of one's context through the magic-creative gesture, which makes the will real, is their ultimate goal. The shaman, inducing the trance, seeks contact with the higher entities. Through the ritual, the witch intends to bend nature to man. The artist, through his work, creates allusions, images, hints of worlds hidden outside and inside the common perception. Due to the ambiguous nature of magic, shamanism and witchcraft are subject to exchanges and overlaps. But even art, at least in some of its forms, can belong to a similar area. The Elsewhere, which for shamans is the over-nature, for the traditional culture to which witchcraft has often been made is a Nature intended as the Mother of man, for the artist it can be both these dimensions, suggested and not penetrated. It can also be an Elsewhere that resides in the dreamlike, unconscious, memory. The evocation always passes through sound and dance, in this case the artist uses the voice as a mantra and the guitar drones as an element of alienating vertigo. "In Between", however, is not a spiritualistic work. On the contrary, it is an extremely materialistic work: the Elsewhere becomes a necessary dimension precisely when the constraints of the existing are more stringent and limiting. In a present where the Real has gone beyond the Symbolic, it has become Hyper-real and the dystopias are now among us, for the artist the possibilities of expression have often become narrow. In an ultra-capitalist panorama he is ostracized and his position is marginal, especially if he does not adhere to a utilitarian and speculative perspective. The new witchcraft is the dissident voice, the unaligned gaze, the freedom that the experimenter can regain in another dimension that he creates himself, with his art. - Gianluca Becuzzi, May 2020