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Maurizio Abate is an Italian guitarist and composer active in the fields of experimental music, contemporary folk, and psychedelia.
Born and raised in Milan, over the years he has developed a personal language based on timbral exploration, improvisation, and a deeply expressive use of the guitar, embarking on a constantly evolving path oriented towards the construction of deep and immersive listening spaces. Active since the early 2000s, he has taken part in various collective projects with musicians, sound artists, and performers from different fields, moving between electroacoustic improvisation, environmental research, and psychedelic experimentation:
Born and raised in Milan, over the years he has developed a personal language based on timbral exploration, improvisation, and a deeply expressive use of the guitar, embarking on a constantly evolving path oriented towards the construction of deep and immersive listening spaces. Active since the early 2000s, he has taken part in various collective projects with musicians, sound artists, and performers from different fields, moving between electroacoustic improvisation, environmental research, and psychedelic experimentation:
Virginia Genta, David Vanzan, Neokarma Jooklo Trio, Kawabata Makoto, Golden Cup, In Zaire, Reset, Giorgio Pacorig, BeMyDelay, Al Doum and the Faryds, Riccardo Sinigaglia, Rella the Woodcutter, Canedicoda, Matteo Uggeri, Alberto Boccardi, Claudio Rocchetti, Luca Venitucci, Eternal Zio, Takehisa Kosugi, John Paul Jones, Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Collaborations are always open-ended processes, whether they involve recording sessions, artist residencies, or site-specific performances. In these contexts, the guitar does not take on a traditional solo role, but becomes a relational instrument, capable of generating textures, resonances, and harmonic structures that intertwine with the sound devices of other musicians.
Interaction and mutual listening are central elements of this practice, which also constantly nourishes and transforms his solo work, a privileged place for his artistic research.
Here, Abate constructs essential and immersive compositions, balancing meditative repetition, emotional tension, and attention to sonic detail, where silence and resonance become structural elements, an integral part of the writing.
Discography:
2007 — Mystic Strings (Troglosound)
2008 — Silence (Troglosound)
2009 — Armonicum (Qbico)
2010 — Third Dimension Blues (8mm Records)
2011 — Travis B. (Tulip)
2012 — Live from the border (Holydays Records)
2013 — Take Care Of Your Own Beast (Sloow Tapes)
2014 — A Way To Nowhere (Boring Machines/BlackSweat))
2015 — Loneliness, Desire and Revenge (BlackSweat)
2017 — Live At eLaSTiCo (Holydays Records)
2018 — Standing Waters (Boring Machines/BlackSweat))
2018 — The Maadi Sessions (Backwards)
2022 — Semi Mondi (EEEE)
selfimperfectionist, was born in 2011 and is Giorgio Pilon’s solo project, which stands as a declaration of love towards the most intimate and melancholic electronic music. The most direct influences can be attributed to early 1980s Sheffield, Boards Of Canada, Raime and Demlike Stare, as well as labels such as Blackest Ever Black.
selfimperfectionist is a project belonging to the most undeground area of the Turin music scene, and its debut “Tooting Park Station” (2012 - L.M.H. Records) was reported on RUMORE’s column dedicated to the 50 most significant Italian releases of the 2010s. In 2021 he is involved in the reissue of EL MUNIRIA - Room 218 with the remix of one track.
DISCOGRAPHY
Selfimperfectionist – Pure. 2022 (Delete)
Selfimperfectionist – Life In Square Brackets 2020 (Self)
Selfimperfectionist – Sehnsucht 2017 (Self)
Selfimperfectionist – Making A False Move 2017 (Self)
Selfimperfectionist – Last Communication - 2015 (Self)
Selfimperfectionist – Tooting Park Station 2012 (L.M.H. Records)
The Star Pillow is the drone-ambient-experimental project of the italian composer and guitar player Paolo Monti, born in December 2007 and mainly based on the research of expression and relation between sound, space and human emotions. The Star Pillow actually has published 14 albums on labels like Boring Machines, Midira Records, Time Released Sound, Paradigms Recordings, Dead Vox, Setola di Maiale, Taverna Records, Laverna, etc. Continues uninterruptedly to play several tours and live gigs throughout Europe (Italy, Sardinia and Sicily included, Switzerland, Slovenia, Austria, Hungary, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Uk).
He shared the stage with people like William Basinski, Zoviet France, Thisquietarmy, Nadja, Dirk Serries, Roy Montgomery, Jessica Moss, Lea Bertucci, Dead Neanderthals, Big Brave, Machinefabriek, N, [Bolt], BARST, Treha Sektori, Fuzz Orchestra, VipCancro, Ornaments, Lento, Bologna Violenta, Mombu, Neo, Thank U for Smoking, Simon Balestrazzi, Sarram, Giulio Aldinucci, Andrea Parkins and many others. He took part at Le Guess Who? Festival (NL), Kukemuru Ambient Festival (EST) , H.A.N.S. (NL), Gaudeamus Festival (NL), Suono Prossimo (IT), Banday Festival, Tago Fest (IT), MVP Fest (IT), Rock Valley Festival (IT), AMM Beyond Festival (IT), etc.
Collaborations with the pianist Federico Gerini (in many concerts and four albums, one of which with the leader of cult italian no wave band “Detonazione” Bruno Romani) and with the director Roberto Beani of Zimmerfrei that release all the official videoclips. Original soundtrack for the films “Nascono i Fiori” (Mauro Bartoli, LabFilm 2016), “Tutta colpa di una ragazza alimentata ad elio” (Giancarlo Fruzzetti 2015), “Il Disassociato” (Cristina Picchi 2014).He’s also part of the post-industrial drone trio DAIMON with Simon Balestrazzi and Nicola Quiriconi.
Active Projects:
DAIMON
BOSCO SACRO
DISCOGRAPHY
The Star Pillow – We Were Never One 2022 (Dissipatio)
The Star Pillow – Music For Sad Headbangers 2019 (Midira Records)
The Star Pillow – Quattro Dialoghi Fuori Campo 2019 (Delete)
The Star Pillow – Symphony For An Intergalactic Brotherhood 2018 (Boring Machines)
The Star Pillow – Invisible Summer 2017 (Midira Records)
The Star Pillow – All Is Quiet 2014 (Paradigms Recordings)
The Star Pillow – Above 2016 (Time Released Sound)
Lay Llamas is a project founded and ran by sicilian composer, musicologist and graphic artist Nicola Giunta since 2012. A project, not a band, an open project though. Open to always changing sonic worlds, escapist exoticism, across past and future to evolving into something different every time.
Open to kindred spirits and lovely humans that joined the project along the way: Gioele Valenti/JuJu/Herself, Mark Stewart/The Pop Group, Nicolas Gaunin, Alfio Antico, Luca Giovanardi/Julie’s Haircut, Clinic, Andrea Davì, GOAT, Devis Granziera/Teatro Satanico, Marco Bernacchia/Above The Tree, Homesick Suni, Gianluca Herbertson, Ariel Kalma, Giulio Deboni, Joao Branco Kyron/The Beautify Junkyards, Chris Reeder/Rocket Recordings, Eugenoise, Guido Broglio.
Lay Llamas’ debut work is a s/t tape released in 50 copies on september 2012 by finnish label Jozik Records and then reprint on vinyl in 2016 by italian Backwards Records. In 2014 is out ‘Ostro’, debut full-lenght written and produced together with Gioele Valenti and released by London-based label Rocket Recordings then Lay Llamas enbarks on tour as a five-piece band playing along Europe, UK and Italy and hitting stages like Liverpool Psych Fest (Liverpool), Dal Verme (Rome), Eindhoven Psych Fest (Eindhoven), Santeria Social Club (Milan), Magasin 4 (Brussels), ZUMA (Milan), Concorde 2 (Brighton), Spazio 211 (Turin), Roundhouse (London), Milhoes de Festa (Barcelos), Shacklewell Arms (London) to name a few. Second full lenght for Rocket Recordings is out in 2018, titled ‘Thuban’, written and produced by Nicola Giunta and broadcasted by BBC Radio 6, Radio RAI, Radio Capital, KUTX 98.9 and many other. In 2022 a new Lay Llamas’ LP titled ‘Goud’ is out for Milan-based label Black Sweat Records, again with Gioele Valenti as co-writer. Latest Lay Llamas' LP is 'Sunburned Dreamlike Safari' (2024) released by Black Sweat Records.
DISCOGRAPHY
Lay Llamas - Hidden Eyes In A Ghost Jungle 2024 (Delete)
Lay Llamas - Goud 2022 (Black Sweat)
Lay Llamas - Sunburned Dreamlike Safari 2021 (Miracle Pond)
Lay Llamas - Thuban 2018 (Rocket Recordings)
Lay Llamas - Østrø 2014 (Rocket Recordings)
Lay Llamas - The Lay Llamas 2012 (Jozik Records)
Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo is a founding member of the cult band Larsen as well of Blind Cave Salamander, Coypu, Almagest! and releases and performs as a solo musician under the moniker of ( r ). He has extensively played (and he still does) live in EU (and USA) including sold out theatre, sordid bars, big festivals, art galleries, empty spaces…He’s also a producer, a music curator, an occasional DJ, a LGBT+ activist and a composer of music for movies, theatre and dance pieces. It is also worth mentioning his collaborations with artists such as Xiu Xiu, Ben Chasny, Jochen Arbeit, Little Annie, Z’EV, Johann Johannsson, Carla Bozulich, Baby Dee, David J, Father Murphy among many others. He lives in his hometown Torino, in Italy, with his husband and describes himself as a movie lover, a winter creature, a camel and a quite decent cook. Pink is his colour, Klaus Nomi his saviour.
Active Projects:
LARSEN
XXL
BLIND CAVE SALAMANDER
ALMAGEST!
( r )
COYPU
Luigi Pugliano is a musician and composer from Turin, founder of the band Lule Kaine, which was active for over 10 years [2001–2013], with whom he released 3 LPs and 2 EPs, including “Radiations From Futurist Furniture” (2007), produced by Oliver Manchion (Ulan Bator–Faust - Permanent Fatal Error) and recorded by Simone Filippi (Ustmamò) at URS Studios.
In 2007, he played with Claudio Agrosi [guitarist and founder of some of Turin’s most important hardcore punk bands, such as Up to Date, Loto Nero, and Havoc] in the IDM electronic project Neonshift, and in 2009 with Space Aliens From Outer Space alongside Paul Beauchamp and Daniele Pagliero.
In 2017, he debuted with his first solo album of ambient electronic music, inspired by artists such as William Basinski, Brian Eno, Labradford, Boards of Canada, Biosphere, Pan American, and Oneohtrix Point Never, recorded by Paul Beauchamp at the O.F.F. Studio in Turin.
Past projects:
LULE KAINE
NEONSHIFT
SPACE ALIENS FROM OUTER SPACE
DISCOGRAPHY
LUIGI PUGLIANO - Stelle dell’Orsa 2020 (Delete)
LUIGI PUGLIANO - Glows 2017 (Delete)
LULE KAINE - Quiet Volcanoes 2012 (Waste Isolation)
LULE KAINE - Radiations from futurist furniture 2007 (Chew Z)
LULE KAINE - Lule Kaine 2004 (Waste Isolation)
LULE KAINE - Ep 2002 (self)
NEONSHIFT- Ep 2006 (Waste Isolation)
SPACE ALIENS FROM OUTER SPACE - Ep 2009 (Self)
A musician and composer, in 2018 he completed his training at the Conservatory with highest honors with a thesis on the guitar works of John Zorn. He studied with Maestros Marco Della Sciucca and Mauro Cardi, participated in seminars and masterclasses by Emilio Calandin, Tonio Tulev and Alessandro Sbordoni. Specializing in contemporary music practices he has performed in various genre festval in Europe, such as Sonology Showlab (Den Haag), Noiseberg (Berlin) and Sirga Festval in Flix (Barcelona) in an ensamble directed by Mats Gustafsson.
He composes and performs music for theater (Gloria Sapio, Maurzio Repetto, Carlo Roncaglia, Ugo Dighero, Daniele Ronco) for contemporary dance (Andrea Gallo Rosso/Interplay Mosaic Dance) and site specifc installations (Noemi Di Nucci, Chille de la Balanza, Noritoshi Hirokawa). He has made records with Tiziano Teodori (Polluton), Anything Pointless (“Texture” 2020, Superbudda), Paul Beauchamp and Michele Anelli (“Sometimes Someone Watches” 2022, ChierichettiEditor).
In his solo he focuses on recovering ancestral relationship with the guitar, through the exasperation of elements of technique and aesthetics, which then becomes a pretext for evoking visionary, dark-ambient and drone sonic imagery, with echoes of ancient and ritual musicA musician and composer, in 2018 he completed his training at the Conservatory with highest honors with a thesis on the guitar works of John Zorn. He studied with Maestros Marco Della Sciucca and Mauro Cardi, participated in seminars and masterclasses by Emilio Calandin, Tonio Tulev and Alessandro Sbordoni. Specializing in contemporary music practices he has performed in various genre festval in Europe, such as Sonology Showlab (Den Haag), Noiseberg (Berlin) and Sirga Festval in Flix (Barcelona) in an ensamble directed by Mats Gustafsson.
He composes and performs music for theater (Gloria Sapio, Maurzio Repetto, Carlo Roncaglia, Ugo Dighero, Daniele Ronco) for contemporary dance (Andrea Gallo Rosso/Interplay Mosaic Dance) and site specifc installations (Noemi Di Nucci, Chille de la Balanza, Noritoshi Hirokawa). He has made records with Tiziano Teodori (Polluton), Anything Pointless (“Texture” 2020, Superbudda), Paul Beauchamp and Michele Anelli (“Sometimes Someone Watches” 2022, ChierichettiEditor).
In his solo he focuses on recovering ancestral relationship with the guitar, through the exasperation of elements of technique and aesthetics, which then becomes a pretext for evoking visionary, dark-ambient and drone sonic imagery, with echoes of ancient and ritual music.
Active Projects:
CHAOS SHRINE
DISCOGRAPHY
Andrea Cauduro - Without People You're Nothing 2024 (CÆR)
Andrea Cauduro – It’s always darkest before the dawn 2022 (Delete)
Chaos Shrine Mirror Division 2024 (Erototox Decoding)
Chaos Shrine Prolegomenon 2023 (self)
Marco Milanesio was the founder with Roberto Ongaro and Cristiana Bauducco in the 80s of the DsorDNE musical project and in the same years the founder of the historical HAX label. He is also a sound engineer and sound designer active in Turin in a many audio production projects, recordings, mixing and sound.
Active projects:
DSORDNE
9CENTO9
Past Projects:
DNE
NOVOSTJ
SPACE ALIENS FROM OUTER SPACE