Mediterranean Minimalism is a blog about experimental music, focusing mostly – but not exclusively – on Italian avant-garde records of the 70s.
My name is Marialuisa, I am the pen behind the blog and MM is my heart project.
I am a former philosophy scholar who researched extensively Adorno’s philosophy of music, which, as you can imagine, ended up feeling quite suffocating. I ditched the academia, realised I was missing the writing, and after a very long hiatus I finally bit the bullet and started this blog.
The inspiration for Mediterranean Minimalism came from a string of experimental records produced in Italy in the 70s to which I found myself returning to over and over again: Battiato’s early avant-garde records, Giusto Pio’s Motore Immobile, Lovisoni & Messina’s Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo and many others you can read about here. Not all the records I am writing about are strictly minimalist, but most of them balance experimentalism with a distinctive melodic sensibility.
Of course, Mediterranean Minimalism is just a title. Still, I thought it sounded better than the “Spaghetti insert genre” label often used for Italian music. Don’t get me wrong, I am Italian and I love spaghetti, but the Mediterranean feels way more evocative than un piatto di pasta.
The avatar and the illustration of the blogs’s main menu are a reproduction of Jean Cocteau’s Profile d’Orphee.
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