Claudio Rocchi – Suoni di Frontiera
I first discovered Claudio Rocchi through my father’s vinyl collection, which featured his Il Volo Magico N. 1 LP as one of his most prized possession. As a small-town hippy and prog enthusiast teenager in the…
Evagoras Karageorgis – Kenthmata
The term Mediterranean Minimalism describes Kenthmata quite literally, as this record by Cypriot composer Evagoras Karageorgis applies the minimalist tropes of loops and repetition to traditional Greek melodies and rhythms. This simple but very effective formula…
Luciano Cilio – Dialoghi del Presente
In his collection of music writings Quasi una Fantasia Adorno describes the melancholic radiance of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana by comparing it to the dazzlingly white villas of the Italian southern coast: Migrants who go to the…