TRACKS:
First Wait
1. A Lot of Last Things to Be Done...
2. Attesa
3. Family Man
Second Wait
4. First Night Home
5. Take Care
6. ...and Then This Endless Love
After the Wait
1. Out
2.
Milk flow
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ALBUM PREVIEW:
CREDITS:
Maurizio Abate: guitar on 1
Empty Vessel Music: vocals on 1
Electronic sounds on 1 taken from "Streengs - 1" by Nicola Ratti
Dominique Van Cappellen: vocals on 2
Andrea Serrapiglio: cello on 2
Cristiano Lupo: bass on 2
Enrico Coniglio: guitar on 3, organ on 4 and 5
Gaia Margutti: vocals and clink on 3
Mujika Eisel: piano on 4 and 5
Olivia Uggeri: breath on 3 and 6
All tracks by Matteo Uggeri,
except from "Family Man" by Black Flag,
whose lyrics are adapted by Gaia Margutti.
Lyrics on 2 by Dominique Van Cappellen-Waldock.
Done between 25th of November 2013 and 25th June 2015.
Mastering by James Plotkin in 2016.
Pictures by Adriano Zanni.
Graphics by Matteo Uggeri.
This record is dedicated to Olivia and Nora.
LABEL:
Infraction (USA)
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DESCRIPTION:
"In 2013 my wife Gaia was pregnant. We were then waiting for our first born to come, expected for November of that year. A few little obstacles and troubles occurred during the nine months, so my anxious nature at the time generated in me the need to somehow express the feelings in a record, where I conveyed the worries that a father, especially a musician that needs his own moments for playing, may have in terms of an expected potential future lack of time and energies.
I also decided to involve fellow musicians I got to know at the time, like Maurizio Abate (guitar), Enrico Coniglio (guitar and organ), with whom afterwards I would have made full albums - but you can find here the first traces of our collaboration. There were Andrea Serrapiglio (cello) and Cristiano Lupo (bass), that I knew for quite some time, and featuring female voices. I asked Dominique Van Cappellen-Waldock (that I discovered through her marvellous presence on a Doug Sharin solo album) if she wanted to sing on a track, and she did, providing her own lyrics. The American singer Jenny Oakley, aka Empty Vessel Music, did the same on track one, as well as a glitching sample from Nicola Ratti is also featured.
The central piece of the whole album can be considered “Family Man”, a sort of cover from a song by Black Flag, totally reversed by my wife Gaia Margutti. She re-interpreted the lyrics her own way, and she performed it in an unforgettable session of home recordings, with my daughter Olivia, now finally born, hanging from her neck.
Indeed, the album took quite a long time to be made, and then the ‘wait’ was over, transformed in the new life we were all three now living together.
The second half pieces, actually a long track sliced in three parts, are dedicated to this transition period, where also tensions in the family are occuring. The tracks are built on a piano melody provided by the Japanese artist, Mujika Eisel, that collaborated with me on a previous album.
Now it is 2019, and not only is Olivia 5 years old, but also Nora was born, in March 2017. This album, is now dedicated to both of them, and can in a away, be perhaps considered a bit too ‘direct’, (as a Henry Rollins song!) but it’s for me a sincere expression of feelings and sensations. The concept of waiting can be interpreted in different ways, and anyone can ask himself what the two dogs in the front cover (kindly provided by the Italian photographer Adriano Zanni) are expecting to come.
Anyway, the album is finally released, thanks to the generous and neverlasting effort of US label Infraction, available in the three formats of LP/CD/DL, with an additional 7” containing two outtakes entitled “After the Wait” (exclusive to physical formats only), when the new life was becoming a new set of routines.
I even made a video in 2018, featuring - guess who? - my family. It can be seen on Infraction Bandcamp and on my website as well.
I hope that this long pathway of experiences, feelings, music and visual art will be shared with careful listeners all over the world." - Matteo Uggeri
2019
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REVIEWS, COMMENTS and more: Vital Weekly, IglooMag, So What, Music Won't Save You...
"Sound poetry of everyday life, organized around a vast array of personal field recordings and concrete noises meticulously arranged in a story-telling way." - IGLOOMAG (Philippe Blache)
"The final
three pieces flow right into each other and are slowly meandering about with sounds from the
quiet house, a piano, and some sparse electronics and convey some great beauty." - VITAL WEEKLY (Frans De Waard)
"Il piccolo ensemble che affianca Uggeri realizza dunque un’ideale sinfonia dell’attesa" - MUSIC WON'T SAVE YOU
"Un delicato quadro dedicato alla gioia e all’affanno della vita che si rinnova. " - SO WHAT
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