From Solstice to Equinox 
Nocturnal Emissions & Barnacles From Solstice to Equinox 2023

CD in six panels digifile

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TRACKS:

1. A Shower Of Dry Sand
2. Sick Summer End Sucks
3. Positive Equinox Navigator
4. Dubbed Postal Office
5. Crashing My Fan
6. Drunk Dub Pussy
7. Into The Hub Of Solstice
8. I Wish I Was Joyful
9. RSA Search
10. Trem Me Tribal
11. Night Cough Onions
 


DESCRIPTION

Matteo Uggeri (aka Barnacles) has been a huge fan of Nocturnal Emissions early works, especially the albums "Befehlsnotstand" and "Drowning in a Sea of Bliss".
When Nigel Ayers, founder of the band in 1980 in London, contacted him to contribute to Matteo's blog Concrete Shelves, his eyes popped out.

They afterwards met in Milan, played a gig together at the legendary Macao, became friend, and got involved into a remix project for Starlight Assembly on the US label Beacon Sound.
In 2022 it was then time to make something more structured together, so they exchanged some files between Milan and Cornwall.

The result is this album, actually composed "From Solstice to Equinox" of last year. It's focused one of Nigels and Matteo main passions: dub.

But it's of course a deeply weird version of it, with the mysterious vocals of the British cut-up in a nearly pop-oriented way by the Italian, who also added any sort of field recording to the analogue loops (guitar, samples, kbd...) of his companion. Moreover, the arrangements of cellos, violins, bass, ukulele and God-knows-what by the usual several Matteo's friends are completing this "hard to fit into a genre" set of songs.


Nocturnal Emissions was founded in 1980 by Nigel Ayers together with collaborators Daniel Ayers and Caroline K. They have released numerous records and CDs in music styles ranging from electro-acoustic, musique concrete, hybridised beats, sound collage, post-industrial music, ambient and noise music.
Early albums on the band's own Sterile Records were harsh noisy affairs, until Songs Of Love And Revolution turned to near synth pop melodies.

Matteo Uggeri is an Italian visual designer and composer from Milan. He invests himself in sound poetry of everyday life, organized around personal field recordings, captivating beats and melodic compositions arranged in a story-telling way. He has been active in music since 1996 and has collaborated with many groups from the Industrial and Goth scene, including M.B., Controlled Bleeding, De Fabriek, and This Mortal Coil singer Dominic Appleton.

Together, they create this dub-oriented beats with cut-up vocals that are hard to fit into a genre.

It's a playful affair and a pure pleasure to listen to.

2023


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CREDITS:

Nocturnal Emissions (Nigel Ayers): vocals, samples, rhythms, bass, guitar.

Barnacles (Matteo Uggeri): samples, field recordings, rhythms, arrangments, mixing, titles.

Sarmax: bass on 1, 7, 10 and 11
Cristiano Lupo: sax on 9
Andrea Serrapiglio: cello on 3
Enrico Coniglio: piano on 7 and 11
Saverio Rosi: guitar on 7
Franz Krostopovic: violin on 4
Alberto Carozzi: Ukulele on 6
Giulio Aldinucci: noises on 11

Mixed by Matteo Uggeri in 2022
Mastered by Martin Bowes (Attrition) in 2023

Images by Nigel
Graphics by Matteo


LABEL:

Klanggalerie (AUS)




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