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…
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 early 70s, my father…
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 Argentine from Southern Italy…
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…