Label: I Dischi Di Angelica

前作に続き今作も非常に素晴らしい!!ジョン・ケージ、シャルルマーニュ・パレスタイン、テリー・ライリー、ポーリン・オリヴェロス等、重鎮作曲家勢の録音を数多く残すボローニャの団体I Dischi Di Angelicaの出版物。1980年生まれ、現在はボローニャを拠点に演奏活動を展開している孤高のギタリストFrancesco Serra。エレキギターの音色を拡張する事にフォーカスした研究演奏を行う人物で、今回は最小限のアコースティック&エレクトロニクスのセットで録音。まばらな探索的フレーズを紡ぎ出すアコースティックギターに始まり、その後スネアの共鳴と共に徐々に崩壊、最終的には完全に異質のサウンドスケープへと変貌する最高にカッコイイ流れ。





Francesco Serra (Cagliari, 1980) is a self-taught guitarist living and working in Bologna. His research focuses on identifying performance practices aimed at extending the timbre qualities of the guitar and emphasising the evocative potential of sound. Throughout his musical journey, particularly in the three albums released between 2008 and 2019 under his solo project Trees of Mint (Micro Meadow, Trees of Mint, and NW, released by Here I Stay and Trovarobato Parade), he has progressively deconstructed the song form through sound experimentation, making the physical phenomenon of sound and its interactions with the performance space the focus of his exploration.

His previous album, Guest Room (i dischi di angelica 2022), born of a residency project promoted by AngelicA | Centro di Ricerca Musicale, was actually structured as a form of dialogue between the signals generated by the minimal electro acoustic setup prepared by the musician (electric guitar, two amplifiers, three snare drums, and loop machine) and the physical and emotional responses of the unique sound architecture of Teatro San Leonardo (a former three-nave church) that hosted him for a month during the pandemic.

Personal, his new release for the Angelica label, continues the musician's “reductionist” and abstract approach with an even greater essential rigour. Here the initial setup is acoustic: a sound flow beginning with sparse, exploratory phrases of acoustic guitar that, after a temporary completeness found in movement three, starts falling apart in the encounter with the resonances of a drum snare in movement four, eventually dissolving into a completely different “soundscape” (Sardinia, Serra's birthplace): a long field recording of distant night echoes, on which the guitar returns only at the end, now extended in the drone of the e-bow.