TRACKS (Ltd. CD and Cassette):

1. Dialing Numbers
2. Bubble Gum Bitch (Marina & The Diamonds) - My Dear Killer
3. Upside Down (Diana Ross) - Comaneci
4. The Things You Said (Depeche Mode) - Jack Cannon
5. As We Go Up, We Go Down (Guided By Voices) - My Dear Killer
6. Haiku de Tango (Pascal Comelade) - Alberto Carozzi
7. Sfiorisci bel fiore (Enzo Jannacci) - Bob Corn
8. Disorder (Joy Division) - One Boy Band
9. Caught Between (Micah P. Hinson) - Gaia Margutti
10. Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Neil Young) - Alberto Carozzi
11. Gold Soundz (Pavement) - Maybe Happy
12. Little Lover (AC/DC) - Comaneci
13. Coscine di pollo (traditional) - Nonna Boba
14. Hurricane Polimar (Shunsuke Kikuchi) - Jack Cannon

TRACKS (Extremely Ltd. CD 2):

1. Dialing Other Numbers - with Comaneci
2. The Riddle (Nick Kershaw) - by Jack Cannon
3. Prova a darmi un bacio (Bruno Martino) - by I Camillas
4. The River (Bruce Springsteen) - by Jack Cannon
5. Sunge Busta Pin Lu (traditional) - by Olivia Uggeri
6. Le Louvre (Diana Est) - by Jack Cannon
7. Pornography (The Cure) - by DER EINZIGE
8. Hotline Outro - with Bob Corn

DESCRIPTION:

This is by far the weirdest release by Matteo Uggeri in his whole career, that started in 1993 and developed along many collaborations along the years and culminated, so far, in 2022, with the Starlight Assembly project involving the 4AD historical singer Dominic Appleton (This Mortal Coil and Breathless).

For this bizarre album, which design, recording and releasing took over 8 years, he's also surrounded by a good bunch of fellow musicians. Each of them has been invited to sing a song, a cover, at the phone with Matteo.

The tracks are direct takes through the delicate, old microphones present in the (70's) telephone handsets. Integrated with bits of conversations, crackles, background noises, hisses and breaths, they result in an album which is an unique flow of whispered vocals on sparse instrumental arrangements.

The album is released in three formats, from an extremely limited to 15 copies "Dial Box Edition", that includes a real old hacked (but working) phone handset with a true 3.5mm audio jack to a limited CD with 85 different black and white postcards covers included, to 30 cassettes.

2021 (released officially in 2022)

VIDEO (1 of 3) - watch them all here.

REVIEWS, COMMENTS and more: ...

THE WHOLE MAKING OF THE TELEPHONE

See all the pictures of the phases here.

Extremely Limited Numbered Dial Box Edition
Limited to 15 copies - includes:

- the regular "The Telephone" CD with unique real old (from the '50s) Italian b/w postcard on the cover (a different one on each copy) wrapped into a tracing paper envelope with a sticker;
- the 24x36 poster with photos and description of the whole project;
- the "Dial Edition" extra CD with other unreleased songs by Jack Cannon, Der Einzige, Olivia, Camillas and others... packed into a handmade drawing artwork (front) with a real old telephone plug (back);
- a working real old (from the 70s or the 80s) hacked telephone handset with a 3.5mm audio jack to be plugged to any device (smartphone, stereo hi-fi, walkman...);
- 24x24 additional poster with the instructions to use the handset and artwork by Matteo Uggeri;
- real (randomly selected, different per each box) old telephones pieces, such as the ones here in the photos.

EACH BOX IS NUMBERED AND SIGNED

Limited Numbered Edition CD
Limited to 85 copies

- the "The Telephone" CD with unique real old (from the '50s) Italian b/w postcard on the cover (a different one on each copy) wrapped into a tracing paper envelope with a sticker;
- the 24x36 poster with photos and description of the whole project.

Limited Edition Cassette
Limited to 30 copies

- the red cassette into a jewel silverish carboard package with a sticker, wrapped into a bread-paper bag;
- the 24x36 poster with photos and description of the whole project.