Giusto Pio’s Motore Immobile began to gain wider recognition when Alan Licht included it in the third instalment of his Minimalist Lists in 2007. Originally released in 1979 and reissued by Soave only in 2017, the album has since earned…
Magna Graecia was the name given to the southern Italian territories colonised by the Greeks around the 8th century BC. Having found myself listening to a lot of Greek experimental music, from my favourite Cypriot minimalist Evagoras Karageorgis to Tasos…
In a wake-up call to his fellow downtown musicians published in EAR Magazine in 1978, No Wave composer Rhys Chatham weighed in on the state of what he dubbed post ‘60s traditionalist music: In the past 10 years or so…
Tracklist Giusto Pio – ‘Motore Immobile’ (Motore Immobile, Cramps 1979) Alvin Curran – excerpt from Side A (Canti e Vedute del Giardino Magnetico, Ananda 1975) Lino Capra Vaccina – ‘Canti delle Sfere’ (Antico Adagio, Nō 1978) Luciano Cilio – ‘Primo…
Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo [The Wet Meadows Of Mount Analogue] by Lovisoni & Messina is the record that inspired me to start Mediterranean Minimalism. For me, minimalism a là Mediterranea describes a gentler version of American repetitive music, less…