PHINX - CD HOLTZAR

Popis - HOLTZAR:
is an enigmatic and hermetic album where the experimental tone is the central element of the whole, surgically sought b e t w e e n e l e c t r o n i c a n d d u s t y n a t u r a l a n d c o n c r e t e sounds. It ?was conceived in a cabin in the mountains and then recorded and produced at Home, the garage, the garden and other unlikely location, u s i n g a l l t h e r o o m s a n d s p a c e s a v a i l a b l e t o t a k e a d v a n t a g e o f t h e d i f f e r e n t s o u n d c h a racteristics. Many concrete sounds recorded during multiple trips have become part of the compositions themselves: branches as snares, crickets as charleston, rocks like mallets, noises like pads. Several Indian instruments found in remote parts of West Bengal and Rajasthan have become the base on which many of the songs on the album took shape.: Processed with granular synthesis tools, reverberated, distorted permeate t h e e n t i r e w o r k . T h e e l e c t r o n i c s o u n d h a s b e e n r e s e a r c h e d a n d e x p e r i e m e n t e d b y s a m pling old vinyl and sounds taken from analogic synthesizers. When recording Drums, guitars and voices the use of artificial editing and auto-tuning, h a s b e e n r e f u s e d p r e f e r i n g i n s t e a d w i t h t h e i m p e r f e c t i o n s a n d p a l y a i n g w i t h v a r i o u s n o i ses. The Lyrics in the Album dig deep in many literary works by different authors and the title of the album and two of the twelve tracks contained are in Cimbro: a language formerly spoken in the areas of Asiago, which has as a characteristic to sound simile to l a n g u a g e s s p o k e n i n n o r t h e r n E u r o p e a n d w i t h a g r a m m a r c l o s e t o t h e I t a l i a n d i a l e c t s p o ken on Veneto and Trentino Alto Adige. The disc is enriched with some guest artists of the Italian independent and international scene.