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Maurizio Bianchi/MB |
Bianchi began to produce music in 1979, and stopped in 2009, then restarted a few years later.
Since 1980 has used electronic equipment with the avowed goal "to produce technological sounds and in such a way to work on complete realising of the modern decadence".
In the beginning, he published tapes under the alias Sacher-Pelz. In 1981, William Bennett, head of the band Whitehouse and the British Come Org. label, offered Bianchi a record contract, which Bianchi signed unchecked. It was based on a "joke contract" that Steven Stapletonof Nurse With Wound had sketched. The contract assumed all rights to Bianchi's work.
Until 1984, Bianchi published on other labels intensively as either MB or simply Maurizio Bianchi, sometimes several albums and/or tapes per year, as well as numerous tracks to compilations.
Bianchi became religious and withdrew from the music business. Much of his work is sought today by collectors, especially as they appeared in extremely small editions. In 1998, Maurizio Bianchi started again to make music.
Therefore, since 1997, he was back on the underground scene, working on several projects both in solo or in collaboration with other Italian artists (Nimh, TH26, MDT, Saverio Evangelista, Matteo "Hue" Uggeri/Sparkle in Grey, Emanuela De Angelis and Crìa Cuervos) and international (Telepherique, Frequency In Cycles Per Second, Aube, Land Use, Siegmar Fricke, Nobu Kasahara e Hitoshi Kojo, Maor Appelbaum, Jozef Van Wissem, Craig Hilton, Cheapmachines).
On August 19th 2009, due to non specified personal reasons, Maurizio Bianchi decided again to completely stop making music.
On Grey Sparkle Maurizio Bianchi gave birth with Matteo Uggeri to the long term project "Between the Elements", that includes two records in which he plays, Nefelodhis and Erimos.
In 2018 Uggeri as Barnacles published another collaboration with M.B. called "Sidereal Decompostion Activity" on the Canadian label Artoffact.
Between the Elements
Concept and inspiration by Maurizio Bianchi and Matteo Uggeri
"You may recognize these names as Italy's finest in the fields of ambient, electronics, microsound, post guitar"
VITAL WEEKLY (Frans de Waard)
"When listening to all four in succession, the scope of the project is revealed. The end product is a sonic symphony of sounds as diverse as their subjects" A CLOSER LISTEN (Richard Allen)
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Maurizio Bianchi & Sparkle in Grey Nefelodhis - Cloudy, between AIR and WATER (Cold Current/MCL - 2007) "A timeless masterpiece" PROGARCHIVES (Philippe Blace)
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Erimos - Desert, between EARTH and FIRE (Digitalis Industries - 2007) |
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Meerkat Kapnos - Smoke, between FIRE and AIR (Afe, Grey Sparkle,
Nighthawks and Ctr+Alt+Canc - 2009) |
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Luca Mauri | Francesco Giannico | Matteo Uggeri Pagetos - Morning Frost, between WATER and EARTH (Boring Machines - 2012) |
