GS - Meerkat - Kapnos

Meerkat	Kapnos
CD in 12x12 cardboard sleeve with inserts	Price: 10 €
Download (MP3/FLAC )	Price: 5 €
TRACKS: 1. One 2. Two 3. Three 4. Four 5. Five 6. Six 7. Seven	ALBUM PREVIEW: <a href="http://matteouggeri.bandcamp.com/album/kapnos">Kapnos by Meerkat</a> CREDITS: Mastered by Andrea Marutti Cover photo by Adriano Zanni Artwork by Matteo Uggeri LABELS: Afe Grey Sparkle Nighthawks Ctr+Alt+Canc
DESCRIPTION: A concept album about Smoke ("Kapnos" in Greek), as the third chapter of the Between the Elements quadrilogy, born from an idea of MB/Maurizio Bianchi (who provides notes on the CD cover), Matteo Uggeri and Spyros Abatielos. The Meerkat ensemble is formed by a small group of Italian musicians working on the field of experimental music, drones, microsounds and field recordings. As Frans de Waard (Vital Weekly) stated, "If you have been paying attention in the last few years, you may recognize these names as Italy's finest in the fields of ambient, electronics, microsound, post guitar." They are: Adriano Zanni/Punck, Matteo Uggeri/Hue, Luca Sigurtà (Harshcore), Luca Bergero/Fhievel, Davide Valecchi/Aal, Andrea Ferraris, Fabio Selvafiorita, Paolo Ippoliti (Logoplasm), Laura Lovreglio (Logoplasm) and Andrea Marutti/Amon. The tracks of *Kapnos* present a surprising homogeneity in spite of the different attitudes of the artists, which mixed their experiences in each track, creating new unforeseen connections, working in pairs or in threesome per each track. 2009
REVIEWS: Vital Weekly, Vittore Baroni, Paolo Bertoni... "The music is excellent - a fine mixture of styles and interests from these guys. All the elements one would expect are there, the field recordings, drones, ambience, microscopic detailed sounds. Great stuff here." (Frans de Waard) "Thus, we have an Italian supergroup of experimental musicians all under one banner." (Eskaton, Chain DLK) "Seven crossed collaborations among the beautiful minds of the Italian experimental electronic scene" (Paolo Bertoni, Blow Up) "A coherent and unitary suite of seven movements that tend to a sound [...] of unique beauty" (Vittore Baroni, Rumore) "Another dimension to micro-tonal spacious electronic music" (Philippe Blache, Progarchives)