Label: Alga Marghen

古くはFringes、Schoolmapと、長年イタリア発の実験レーベルを主宰する重要人物Giuseppe IelasiとNicola RattiによるデュオBellowsのリリース。古いアナログレコードの音をコンタクトマイクで採取〜増幅、テープループにより歪なカットアップ／ドローンに仕上げたという極めてプリミティブな作品。背後に見え隠れする断片と歪んだ音像の交錯が素晴らしく、質感はどこかSteve Rodenとリンクします。







bellows is the duo of giuseppe ielasi and nicola ratti and ‘handcut’ is their second project. originally released on lp on alga marghen / planam, this cd reissue is expanded with 23 minutes of unreleased material recorded one year after the first sessions. for ‘handcut’, bellows used a simple technique of cutting / destroying and amplifying vinyl records with contact microphones, creating new grooves and physical loops while capturing the sounds on a revox tape machine with long tapeloops. no further processing or transformations were applied apart for a couple of effect pedals and sine waves. a sort of atmospheric and modern electronic music recorded at the beginning of the twentieth century on 78rpm shellac records.