Label: IIKKI - IIKKI002

当店大人気タイトル、2017年の重要リリース盤 !! Die SchachtelのZeitコンポーザーシリーズに登場したり、BoltのPopulistaシリーズからも出したり、またDavid Maranhaとの共演作もリリースしたりと、かなり幅広い活動を行ってきたイタリアのドラマー/コンポーザーAndrea Belfi。フランスの新レーベルIIKKIから発表した2017年LPタイトル[Alveare]。とにかく音の配置が秀逸過ぎる、生楽器のゲストらを交えた5つの完全なコンポジションを披露。これは大推薦の一枚。



"Alveare" is a journey across and around man-made cement beehives - the legacy of a group of visionary architects. Their playground: post-war Italy. Their vision: affordable dwelling designed to meet as many human needs as possible. A superficial look at these architectural reveries decades later might bring to mind terms such as "excessiveness" and "megalomania". But these massive edifices are prototypes of a city of the future – an urbanized future that was yet to be shaped by bold ideas and dreams. Meandering across the endless corridors of Nuovo Corviale or Rozzol Melara is like a surrealist hike through the realities of thousands of inhabitants of a beehive. And although the walls are made from rigid concrete, they have an organic feel to them. Facades move, shapes shift. Human demands are stronger than concrete and nature will always find a way."Alveare" is a look at drawing board visions cast into concrete and their human adjustments.
"Matthias Heiderich"

Andrea Belfi is a drummer, composer and experimental musician. Through the last twenty years he has developed a unique style of drumming. He has released five solo albums and more than fifty collaborative records on labels such as ROOM40, Miasmah, Häpna, Die Schachtel, Constellation, Blue Chopsticks.
He has collaborated, among others, with Mike Watt, Carla Bozulich, David Grubbs, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Nils Frahm, Greg Haines, Circuit des Yeux, Andrea Parkins, Werner Dafeldecker, Erik Skodvin, Stefano Pilia, Aidan Baker, Lori Goldston, BjNilsen.
He has performed at Centre Pompidou (Paris), Unsound Festival (Krakow), Cafè Oto (London), Issue Project Room (New York), GAS festival (Göteborg) and Artplay (Moscow).
He presents on IIKKI his sixth solo albums.