interview
two hardest songs of lp?
Essentially they are two of our
friends. They have a beautiful voice. Everything was spontaneous
and natural. It seemed that women’s
footprint could give a strong personality to the parts in question.
Can you tell the main instrument
you used to play on this record?
Analog synths, bass, computer, keyboard.
Who is or who are the Italians
independent artists that you value
more right now and why?
We love the sound of Populous and
Capibara. We listened with attention the album of Matilde Davoli
and we found it exciting. We are
logically close to the Bologna scene,
in which we love Lips Against the
Glass.
things that a band makes, playing around
and arranging new material.
In a previous interview you told me that
you worked on the tracks from “Mondial
Frigor” separately and, afterwards together.
Did you build the tracks of “Avesom” the
same way?
It was a work done collectively. The songs
almost always start from an individual idea
and then they were chewed in the studio.
From this point of view it was a decidedly
more complex work than the one in the previous ep.
Can you explain why did you chose to publish with a German label as Symbiotic
Cube and what kind of reception they have
reserved to your band?
We mutually chose each other. We have done
a careful research and we loved Symbiotic
Cube proposal. It’s an electronic music netlabel that organizes events, distributes music,
promotes both the fruition of compositional
side in terms of night and dance. We really
liked this approach. It seemed clear and concrete at the same time.
Can you tell something of the genesis of
song “Luxard”?
Luxard is one of the first songs for the record.
We have already “given birth” to the song before the release of our previous ep. It’s a song
born out of a synth riff, on which was built a
powerful rhythmic structure, surrounded in
turn by light and ambient sounds. It contains
all of the elements that characterize our creative process.
How did you choose the two female voices
of the disc, Giulia Olivari and Ilaria Ippolito, and why you chose to insert them in the
Published by German label Symbiotic Cube,
Avesom is the new Torakiki record. The Bologna electronic trio here comes to a job with
seven tracks full of significant sensations.
Lp starts with moderate sensations of Pitch,
which aligns small drops of sound in a minimal introduction, then ready to make room
for heavier gauges in the song’s proceeding,
also characterized by loops and synthetic voices of airport type. Luxard starts in the most
massive way instead, which dangles transparency in some reference to the 80s synth pop,
but it’s not the case to be pulled in too deep
by the cross-references. It highlights especially the rhythm, in an intense and also crude
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the speech is muffled with Tr2, in which
prevail low tones, even if the rhythm of the
percussion is important and marked.
Lp closes to, after all, quiet Kendo, alluding
to the Orient without falling in Orientalisms. “Important” is the adjective that arises
spontaneously and that is right to associate
album of Torakiki. They had already flashed good potential with the three songs
of Mondial Frigor, but the trio here exceed
expectations and make several steps further, leaving more than everything glimpse
further potential in different directions,
virtually all those who can choose from
here on out.
song. The voice, instead, tends to remain in
the background. O.A.U. also lends itself to
considerations of powerful synthetic drums
and some vintage temptations, but the track
has very mixed flow dynamics, and also hosts the voice of Giulia Olivari, who loan her
soft voice on a tune full of strong contrasts.
Tripolar plays with vaguely new wave tones,
with some movement that moves below the
track surface. Back to a female voice even in
## Pap: this time is the one of Ilaria Ippolito
and also in this case we are faced with contrasts rather significantly greater. The song is
very fast, at the limits of dance rhythms, and
relies on very sharp sounds. On the contrary,
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