'Ed Laurie evokes the feeling of calm before the storm. With haunting vocals and gentle, Spanish-inflected guitar, 'Meanwhile In The Park' is a dark and stormy affair. Like all great songwriters, Ed Laurie takes his influences and moulds them into something entirely new and unique. An artist of rare and exceptional talent' NIGEL WILLIAMSON, THE GUARDIAN, UK

Fabio Bonelli's side project, of Milaus.

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After years of playing cello with a myriad of artists and ensembles, Julia Kent retired to her Lower East Side apartment to make a solo record inspired by touring and the disjunctions of travel. Incorporating multitracked cello, omnichord, and field recordings from airports around the world, her "lovely, melancholy," compositions, full of "aching romanticism ... rich melodicism, and detailed arrangements," make up /Delay/, her solo debut, released by Shayo Records in Europe and Important Records in North America.

She has performed solo in Europe, the UK, New York, and Canada, using live looping and effects to create layers of melody and rhythm on the cello. Of her appearance at the Donau Festival in Austria, the Wire said: “Cellist Julia Kent's set, in which she sampled and played over herself, was a thing of miniature beauty.” Lucid Culture described a recent New York appearance as: "...riveting and frequently cinematic...moving from trippy, echoey and atmospheric to stark and haunting..."

The Versailles Sessions

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/10245-poste-y-telegrafi/ Italian guitarist Alessandro "Asso" Stefana has gall. For his solo debut, Poste e Telegrafi, Stefana treats his guitar like a quarter-piece of the puzzle. He collaborates with six people and avoids the guitar altogether on two of these seven tracks. He alternately employs the 1980s electronics artifact the omnichord, a "strings machine," various African percussion instruments, and vinyl loops to build intricate, subtly shaped substrates for his meticulous, twang-redolent guitar fantasies. Largely because it avoids the solo guitar record template, Poste e Telegrafi is one of the most striking works you'll hear from a young composer all year. His guitar playing is graceful and dexterous, his fluid phrases are precise without feeling stiff. The cast here includes guitar maverick Marc Ribot, Italian songwriter Marco Parente, and Brian Eno/Nick Cave collaborator Leo Abrahams. The ends of Stafana's phrases, though, are about not perfecting the right note, but, instead, letting the assumed resolution arrive slightly altered. The climax, to wit, is one lonesome pedal steel note pushed through ... [read more]

Julia Kent (cello + pedals) + Barbara De Dominicis (voice + live electronics) + Davide Lonardi (video installation)Live/Impro performance/project in progress for cello, electronics,voice & visuals Parallel-° 41is a small journey that we decided to embark on after a series of musical events experienced  together that go under the name of Intermittenze.(youtube.com/watch?v=eYzwNQKQKl8)We aim  to realize some sessions of "spontaneous" recordings (audio/video) influenced by the environment in which they happen (Recording sessions can be "open" to a public but not necessarily and/or  can be followed or preceded by a live performance--in the vicinity of the chosen-place (but not necessarily....) We decided and tried to play completely free, an improvisation without any set parameters or compositional ideas but the unique influence of  the places that host us. We use  cello, pedals, voice, images, casuality, laptop, field recordings,found sound and a few toys.We have been and still are looking for unique locations with an inner acoustic potential in order to let our music interact with the environmental sounds... A magic room; a cave, a valley, a path ... [read more]

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