TRACKS:

1. modular
2. ghosts of sand
3. our lady
4. mare aperto
5. an eleven hour sleep
6. bella ciao
7. bushwick

DESCRIPTION:

Elena Botts is American, lives in Washington DC. Matteo Uggeri is Italian, lives in Milan. When this album was conceived, in 2018, she was 22, he was 44. Three years after its conceiving, the album is now released in Spring 2021 by the historical ADN records (adnrecords.com), that since 1984 has published artists like Pascal Comelade, Merzbow, Pierre Bastien, Tasaday, Riccardo Sinigaglia, Cranioclast, Sigillum S, Christina Kubisch, Third Ear band and many others…

Elena's works under her moniker Mourning Dove are primarily built on her voice and poems, Matteo's ones are usually instrumental releases in the so-called field of 'modern classical/experimental'.

This joint album was made in an extremely spontaneous way, sending files across the Atlantic ocean: Elena recorded a set of spoken poems and three sung pieces, often outdoor, walking in streets and fields, and Matteo arranged them all grabbing mostly acoustic sounds often provided by his long time collaborators.

Due to the strong and at the same time delicate timbre of Elena's voice, in spite of the relatively wide set of instruments, the album sounds minimal and rarefied, as a long gentle suite of sparse notes and occasional rhythms driven by female vocal chords.

2021

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REVIEWS, COMMENTS and more: Vital Weekly, Baby Blaue,...

"I quite enjoyed the darker soundscapes, the nocturnal glow if you will, that this music has, works quite well on a final day of springtime." (Frans De Waard, VITAL WEEKLY)

"Vergleiche sind schwierig zu nennen. Es besteht eine gewisse Wesensverwandtschaft zum Postrock von Bark Psychosis oder den späten Talk Talk, allerdings klingt diese Musik nicht nur noch reduzierter, sie ist auch wesentlich sperriger." (Jochen Rindfrey, BABY BLAUE)

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