Your cart (0 item)

CIULLINI, DANIELE - Cosmetic for Mannequins

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Luce Sia 095 Release Year: 2023 Note: long active mail artist from Italy (once active with the TRAX label and as COP KILLERS with VITTORE BARONI), who became very active again lately.. "Manipulated field recordings, toy instruments, noises from radio, turntable, tape deck, automatic voices" - very versatile and masses of different sounds appearing... Price (incl. 19% VAT): €12.00 More Info All tracks written and produced by Daniele Ciullini Manipulated field recordings, toy instruments, noises from radio, turntable, tape deck, automatic voices https://lucesia.bandcamp.com/album/095-daniele-ciullini-cosmetics-for-mannequins "From former Trax (famous Italian label) member Danielle Ciullini, I reviewed a previous release, ‘Great Events Are Coming’ in Vital Weekly 1254, and now he returns with another album, a short one; eight pieces in thirty-one minutes. As before, the credits are for “manipulated field recordings, toy instruments, noises from radio, turntable, tape deck, automatic voices”, and the result is a wackadoodle mash-up of styles, ideas, concepts and sounds. Try and imagine what it would sound like if you had a bit of noise, some plunderphonics, some click n-cut, cut-up, some drones, lots of voices (not sung, no sound poetry), computer technology and all of that went into a blender, and twisted at high speed. If that makes any sense, then you may have an idea. None of this takes control, so it’s never too noisy, plunderphonics, or such a thing (not wanting to repeat the whole list). Keeping his pieces short, between three and five minutes, and adding quite some variation within each of these pieces, using a massive pile of sounds, means there is some great speed on this album. Yet, Ciullini knows how to keep fine pacing in his music. It never becomes an amorphous mass of sound, as he cleverly adds breaks and changes in his songs, such as in the best of the lot, ‘Mass Loneliness’, which has the markings of a pop song, for the lack of a better word. Overall a great album and one that could have been longer, say, the length of an old-fashioned LP. Maybe next time!" [FdW/Vital Weekly]