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karu:4, CD (deluxe digipak)
9 audio tracks, (p) 2006
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Release date: April 2006
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A unique form of sonic mosaic...Strikingly unique, Urkuma's music offers namedroppers little to cling to. Proceeding from free improvisation and noise, the music pairs together harshness and delicateness to piece together carefully spatialized sonic mosaics. Murmured drones, liquid growls, electrical discharges and acoustic touches: dissembling pieces are assembled into a stunningly unified whole.
Urkuma is Stefano De Santis, born in the Southeast part of Italy. He began his artistic career as a playwright, and later developed his unique musical approach to translate his theatre concepts into sound. Live, he is prone to make use of anything within his reach, including laptop, small electronic devices, clarinet, home-built instruments and tapes.
Rebuilding Pantaleone's Tree consists of nine pieces of various lengths, including a collaboration with Strinqulu's David Della Rossa on "Olifante". The word urkuma is specific to De Santis' home region of Salento and expresses the opposite to the Buddhist concept of nirvana.
Rebuilding Pantaleone's Tree is a concept album based on the monk Pantaleone's marvellous mosaic floor in the Cathedral of Otranto. The mosaic depicts several unusual elements, including a number of animals playing musical instruments, such as the donkey with a harp seen on the album's cover. Rebuilding Pantaleone's Tree draws inspiration from the techniques of mosaic art and Pantaleone's symbolism.
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Ex Jonath Donis |
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02:14 |
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L'Asino Arpista |
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10:17 |
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Olifante |
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01:10 |
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Achmed Giedik |
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07:04 |
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Panta Nifta Scotinì |
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06:31 |
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Abraxas |
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10:14 |
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Confusio Linguarum |
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01:24 |
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Bestiaire |
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06:16 |
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Retour en Arrière |
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04:18 |
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Urkuma has produced a fine album here, demonstrating a good articulacy of concept as well as some excellent noises.
SONIC ARTS NETWORK, February 2006
Lo ripeto, questo è il disco sperimentale dell'anno.
ELECTRONIQUE.IT, October 2006
Ed alla fine si ha l'impressione di fronteggiare con la musica di un sogno.
DISC-JOCKEY.IT, July 2006
Touching on something profound and existential in the process, as well as that which is unchanging beneath all the constant fluctuation of life.
DJFIX + RAVES.COM, July 2006
Urkuma è un'incantevole esploratore. Urkuma è autore di qualcosa che non ci meritiamo. Urkuma è.
KATHODIK, June 2006
Cette création sonore est une oeuvre complexe dont la richesse d'écriture et d'improvisation est particulièrement séduisante.
TAPAGE NOCTURNE / FRANCE-MUSIQUE, June 2006
Much more in y'r face than much of the regular microsound, this is actually a fine meeting of improvised music, some harsher overtones amongst subtle embedded sound tapestries. Quite nice indeed.
VITAL WEEKLY, May 2006
Urkuma è un pioniere del tempo, è la voce delle cose, è arte, è mestiere, è ingegneria ed è architettura, è pittura, è poesia, è il presente, è lo strumento del suono.
SANDS-ZINE, April 2006
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