Paolino Canzoneri from Sicily, Italy combines today's gadgets and digital production at home with the tradition of
early electronic music of the late 50ies and 60ies of places like Cologne or Milan to create a digitalised mix of both
confusing and intruiging oddities. Generated with Tenori On, Korg Kaos Pad 3 and Cubase 5, analogue bleeps and processing
artifacts harshly collide with unexpected silence and pattern shifts on i giorni del dimagrimento, his first work
for the Petcord netlabel. A distinct architecture of atomic sequences is immanent and forms a composite study comparable
to a Futuristic painting. Another parallel ist the focus on motion and its metamorphosis, rather than the descriptive
approach of a split second like the majority of electronic music forms.
The works emphasise their artificial nature as an accidental by-product of applied algorithms and yet, as a paradox, the
music appears lively and organic. Maybe, it is due to being allowed to act freely and unrestrictedly. Stylistically, as a
result of its roots, i giorni del dimagrimento has a much closer approximity to electro-acoustic and avantgarde than
to IDM (excuse me for using a three-letter word here), yet there is a certain warmth and aesthetical beauty of sound more
typical of the latter music category. To me, Paolino Canzoneri's début on Petcord, exhibits a strong originality and
fortunately fails to fit into stereotype categories, because that enables people to listen to the music without a bias and
discover the strange beauty inherent to these tunes.
Olliver Wichmann
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| 1. | Il Carillon di Lenina | 4 min 18 sec | 10'110 KByte | mp3, 320 kbps CBR |
| 2. | Pacchetti Corrotti | 2 min 21 sec | 5'544 KByte | mp3, 320 kbps CBR |
| 3. | I Giorni del Dimagrimento | 4 min 09 sec | 9'760 KByte | mp3, 320 kbps CBR |
| 4. | Grigi | 1 min 22 sec | 3'242 KByte | mp3, 320 kbps CBR |
| 5. | Trascorso | 4 min 44 sec | 11'126 KByte | mp3, 320 kbps CBR |
| 6. | Insulina | 3 min 50 sec | 9'018 KByte | mp3, 320 kbps CBR |
| Artwork | Cover art for prints | 2'488 KByte | 24x12 cm & 11.8x14.8 cm at 300 dpi | |
| Everything | Entire release plus artwork | 35.6 MByte | zip archive |
Music © 2010 Paolino Canzoneri and the Petcord netlabel.
Cover art © 2010 Synflict and the Petcord netlabel.