Sospire

Nicholas Remondino - Hieratico Nicholas Remondino is an Italian percussionist, sound artist, and improviser. He collaborates with Accademia Chigiana in Siena, such as the Tabula Rasa Ensemble and Silentium Ensemble. His main projects are LAMIEE, where he is a composer and producer (releasing albums for numerous international labels such as Shhpuma/Clean Feed), and the Dròlo Ensemble, of which he is the director. Hieratico is an album of hybrids. Diverse voices, accents and dialects deliver its lyrics, the instrumentation underpinning it crosses idioms. The drumkit at its core is modified to amplify its resonant tones and harmonics. Inspired by natural substances and phenomena: stone, wood, wind, earth, metal, grass, rain, clouds and bark, Remondino explores how percussion could evoke their materiality, treating drums as lucid textural instruments as much as rhythmic timekeepers. It gives the album a finely shaded depth and clarity as it conjures the vibrancies that reside in darkened corners. Hieratico dwells in a sensation that crosses borders, the speckles of light in the oblique night sky. Listening is an aural equivalent to stepping into a pitch black forest and waiting for your eyes to adjust, a lightless void turning into a spectacular tableau of shadows and glows. " Sospire " Nicholas Remondino : percussion Roberto Musci : sampler,granular synthesis OOH-sounds : https://ooh-sounds.com https://youtu.be/uYTepAA3lKo