[out now] New albums by: Michele Andreotti, Purl, The Washing Planck, Ludovico Franco (ROHS! / Lontano Series)
#CD / #Book - Lontano Series / rohsrecords July 2025 releases
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RELEASE DATE / SHIPPING: 18th July 2025
Michele Andreotti - Risorgi (CD + DL)
→ https://lontanoseries.bandcamp.com/album/risorgi
The title of the album refers to the historical process of the Italian Risorgimento, from which the source material for the construction of the eight tracks in this work was drawn. The first layer of sound was created by cutting short samples from around fifty works by Italian composers who lived during the Risorgimento period.
The samples were reworked to generate loops of a few measures that repeat incessantly at a fixed metronomic pace of 80 bpm. In this way, it was possible to achieve a total deconstruction of the melodic cores, creating unitary cells of pure harmonic movement devoid of references to the original pieces from which the samples were taken.
The second layer was created through the use of four melodic lines per track, played and recorded in MIDI and assigned to timbres musically consistent with those of the samples used in the first draft of the tracks. The word Risorgi thus takes on a new meaning, becoming the manifestation of the dialogue between life and death and therefore between sound materials (those sampled and those recorded) composed about two centuries apart.
The titles of the individual tracks, all linked to the procedural concept just described, are a tribute to the figure of Giuseppe Mazzini and his connection to esoteric symbolism, of which many themes dear to the Risorgimento are allegorical expressions.
“Sulla terra siamo in continuazione di viaggio, provenienti da altri pianeti, e questa vita che viviamo oggi non è che uno stadio della nostra vita immortale”
(Giuseppe Mazzini, from “Il pensiero religioso, pratico-sociale di Mazzini,” edited by Gaetano Salvemini, 1925)
Risorgi takes on a new meaning, as a synthesis of Mazzini’s spiritual ideas and many underground historical currents of the time, such as the Carboneria, of which Mazzini was a leader.
The cohesion of the sound texture between the two sources of material is ensured through the use of digital emulations of analog tapes, completing a timbral coloration filled with imperfections and sonic aberrations historically impossible for either era, giving Risorgi the final meaning of a symbolic word, an intermediate state, and an interaction between the physical world and the spiritual world.
“A symbol does not signify: it evokes and focuses, assembles and concentrates, in an analogically polyvalent manner, a multiplicity of meanings that cannot be reduced to a single meaning or just any meaning. The symbolic functionality is inseparable from its ‘sacred orientation’ or its hierophanic vision of ‘numinous’ or ‘non-human’ powers to which myths and rites connect the human being, ‘reuniting’ the anthropos and the cosmos through the power of the Logos, which is not language but verb and ‘resurrected’ word, ‘re-created,’ beyond the cultural and social sense of the ‘words of the tribe.’”
(René Alleau - La science des symboles)
Purl - Himmel Under Hav (CD+DL)
→ https://lontanoseries.bandcamp.com/album/himmel-under-hav
there is a sea that never moves
there is a sky that never fades
This music is a resting place. A place to commune with Earth, Sky and the Great Beyond. It is an echo of the purling brook, after it became a river and reunited with the sea. Speaking less, Being more. I hope it brings you peace.
– Ludvig (Peru, April 2024)
The Washing Planck - The Dimensional Loom (CD + Book + DL)
→ https://thewashingplanck.bandcamp.com/album/the-dimensional-loom
The Washing Planck present The Dimensional Loom, an instrumental electronic album born from the desire to explore and define a distinctly steampunk sonic identity. In a musical landscape where the word “steampunk” is often confined to visual, textual, or narrative aesthetics, this project offers both a reflection and a proposition.
Without denying the literary or iconographic foundations of the genre, The Dimensional Loom seeks to translate steampunk into sound: the friction between machinery and imagination, the allure of a future that never was, the deep pulse of a parallel world built from gears, steam, and skewed visions.
What makes this album particularly unique is the creative process behind it. Where Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt was first a dramatic work to which Edvard Grieg later added music, The Washing Planck have reversed the process. The music of The Dimensional Loom was composed first—as if it were the score to an unseen drama. Only afterward was an original libretto written, giving shape to an imaginary five-act steampunk opera, with a narrative inspired directly by the music itself.
This is not an attempt to define a rigid standard, but to open a new possibility: that steampunk may also be heard, not just seen or read.
Ludovico Franco - Open Field (CD + DL)
→ https://lontanoseries.bandcamp.com/album/open-field
Open Field is an auditory exploration that intertwines field recordings and electronic processing, crafting a sonic landscape that immerses the listener in expansive, resonant spaces.
The album’s seven tracks originate from the field recordings of a collective performance inspired by James Tenney’s "In a Large Open Space", subsequently reimagined through layering and electronic manipulation.
The performance was organized by Cosimo Fiaschi in conjunction with the exhibition umwelten – ambienti, curated by Valeria De Siero.
The improvisers who participated with their instruments were:
Simone Alessandrini, Rocco Federico Castellani, Alessandro Ciccarelli, Elena D’Alò, Federico D’Angelo, Cosimo Fiaschi, Ludovico Franco, Riccardo Gola, Ludovica Manzo, Gabriele Pagliano, Yvonne Scarpellini, Domenico Vellucci.
BUNDLE 4xCD+Book: https://lontanoseries.bandcamp.com/merch/rohsrecords-lontano-series-july-bundle-2025
Krystian Shek’s two album’s CDs repress! (Shipping now!)
Suddenly → https://rohsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/suddenly
As You Wish → https://krystianshek.bandcamp.com/album/as-you-wish
Both CDs can be purchased in Bundle!
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