Both album title and band name, Parallel 41 is a kind of "live" album. Despite the essential available resources, Parallel 41 had the opportunity to record long sessions (completely based on improvisation) in venues they considered to have a sound appeal [and mostly in the open air]. This happened also due to the contribution/support of special persons who were of great help to them, not only in "occupying" "rooms" that welcome them (sometimes even in an unconventional way) but also, in some cases, providing them with their technical expertise [and often much more...] Cello, loop station, voice, pedals, filters, electronics... accidental and non-accidental sounds of contact microphones and hydrophones intercepting the surrounding environment, manipulated and filtered in real time. In other cases sounds have been collected incidentally during their travel (as happened in the session recorded in Naples). Representing a thicker sound carpet. They chose some "fragments" or actually "sections" cut from these sessions: the album tracks. The edition includes a CD + DVD. A little documentary-film by Davide Lonardi, re-tracing (both using archive material and the story of their travel) the imaginary line they drew on the path of the 41st Parallel ideally connecting Naples and New York.

Julia Kent (CA) www.juliakent.com Canadian-born, New York City-based Julia Kent uses multitracked cello, found sounds, and electronics to create solo music that has been described as "cinematic and impressionistic," "organic yet powerful," and "deeply personal and committed." She has released two full-length solo records: "Delay" (2007) and "Green and Grey" (2011), as well as an EP, "Last Day in July" (2010). Her music has been heard in film soundtracks and as accompaniment to theatre and dance performances, and she has toured throughout Europe and North America, including appearances at Primavera Sound in Barcelona, the Donau Festival in Austria, and the MIMI Festival in Marseille.

Barbara De Dominicis (IT) www.soonapres.com Barbara De Dominicis loves collecting sounds, manipulating them and inventing sound textures. Her projects include The Body_exposed: Poe-Si [with Mirko Signorile and Marco Messina]; Poe-Si [with Marco Messina/99 Posse and Mirko Signorile]; Cabaret Noir [with Pasquale Bardaro]; Kuul_Ma an experimental audiovisual project in which organic electronic sounds interact with the changing landscape of visual artist Davide Lonardi. In 2008 she published as a soloist Anti-Gone, a concept album which bases its narrative on Greek mythology. In 2008 she began a collaboration with Canadian cellist Julia Kent; their performance (initially under the name of Intermittenze) will soon become a stable project in progress with the name Parallel 41 [a musical/visual/improvisatory project released internationally on french record label Baskaru]. Her sound works include Whimsical Cartography – selected among the works which will be exhibited in the collective multimedia show E-ArtQuake in commemoration of the earthquake in Irpinia; Re_di_Sound [Radio Papesse], a tribute to Marcel Duchamp (Call for Revolutionary Sounds). Her growing interest in soundscapes leads her to conceive of A tale of two cities: a series of audio collages designed to portray the similarities and differences of two cities which lie on the same parallel, Naples and New York. This work has become a radiowork produced for Radio Papesse vs Radia network, entitled Crossings. Among her current projects Exquisite What [as both curator and creator] a collective inspired by the Surrealist practice of exquisite corpses dedicated to the creation of an audio-visual web platform; La Reverie/La Sogneria [curator/creator] - a multimedia space linked to dreaming in which, as if inside a globe indexed by locations, issues, and time periods, one can choose to "enter" [in mp3] into the story of a dream or to travel between multiple dreams (in progress). She has recently been invited by GIRRL [girrlsound :digitalgirrl] - an Australian organization supporting women working in the field of sonic and digital art - to curate and produce a series of radio podcasts entitled "The Cat Cinderella" with the aim of promoting the dissemination of works by women artists on the brink between net art, sound art and audio documentary. With the moniker Apres Soon she is working on a new solo album: a blend of drones and field recordings, electronics, voices and string instruments. Barbara is currently working at Quasi.Memory: a sound installation which uses rediscovered private memories [old photographs, letters from strangers, sounds of objects no longer in use, semi-forgotten nursery rhymes, etc]. Some audio and visual artists she has recently collaborated with include Leonardo Rosado, Mark Walters aka Savaran, Shahzad Ismaily, Marco Messina, Mathias Van Eecloo aka Monolyth & Cobalt, Elio Martusciello, Airchamber 3, Roland Quelven, Andrea Serrapiglio, Ginetta Corelli, Nicolas Bernier, Davide Lonardi, and Andrea Ics Ferraris.

Davide Leonardi (IT) www.auhasard.org Filmmaker, writer and photographer, Davide Lonardi has worked on different sides of visuality: from graphic artwork/design and videoclip to more abstract forms of video art and photography. As a filmmaker he has produced four documentaries focused on italian contemporarary artists: Claudio Ambrosini (Big Bang Music, 2004), Fabrizio Plessi (the opera to video, 2004), Rabarama (2005), Luigi Del Sal (The Route Fantastic, 2005). In 2009, he released the music video for the single "Disremembering Echo" (by Barbara De Dominicis/Anti-Gone) on air on major italian networks. He is now focused on "film" and to give "images" to his writings. He made his first, self-produced medium-length film "Moto Apparente" and developed various projects related to abandoned spaces. In 2008 he joined Parallel 41 [Julia Kent + Barbara De Dominicis] producing images for their shows and documenting their improvised recording sessions. Baskaru music label will release the docu-film called "Faraway Close" as a part of the upcoming record of Parallel 41 DVD+CD.