Faraway Close...Over the past months, Julia Kent, Barbara De Dominicis and Davide Lonardi have been making a musical/visual/improvisatory record as Parallel 41 the imaginary parallel that ties Naples and New York on the same latitude line.
The tracks evolved from a series of extemporary and improvised recording sessions made outdoors and held between september 2009 and august 2010. These sessions are now an album and a little story in images.
They have been recording in interesting spaces; an abandoned tunnel in the Alto Adige Valley; a farmhouse in Piemonte, a fort outside Venice, an ex wool factrory in Naples, New York - trying to incorporate the sounds and atmospheres into their improvisations.
Traces of places they passed over, intensified by fragments of sounds gathered on the run (a sort of travelogue of an otherwise cold Italy). To keep the spontaneity of interacting with the environmental element, they have decided and tried to play without any set parameters or compositional ideas but the unique influence of the places that hosted them. They used cello, pedals, voice, images, casuality, laptop, field recordings, found sounds,contact mics-hydrophones and a few toys.
