Not a simple pretext, but a deep passion ties Alessandra Novaga to auteur cinema and the solo works produced in homage to some of its greatest interpreters are a clear testimony to this. After the declared dedication of “Fassbinder Wunderkammer” and the one to Derek Jarman in “I Should Have Been A Gardener”, it is Andrej Tarkovskij's turn to rise to the head of a new tribute to the seventh art, crystallized in a path that combines his visionary poetics and the suggestions injected into his works by the use of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
A dual instance, therefore, which finds synthesis in an extremely multifaceted itinerary, in which guitar experimentation is accompanied by ambient and concrete to give breadth to a widely consolidated practice. The re-proposal of “Erbarme Dich, Mein Gott” included in the soundtrack of “Sacrificio” is emblematic in this sense, divided between the initial re-reading on the instrument, based on the essential distillation of resonances and the virtuoso use of the pause (“Erbame Dich”), and the recording with a more hauntological of a mezzo-soprano's interpretation of the piece captured by the loudspeakers of an underground car park (“Mein Gott”).
The incessant moving between reality and dream dimension, the alienating advance on that liminal territory, central to the development of cinema Tarkovskyacts as red thread capable of holding together a changing material, which further includes atmospheric dilutions with a spectral flavor (“Nostalghia”, “Elegy For Andrej Tarkovskij”) and the poignant reinterpretation – only voice and guitar – of “Ich Ruf Zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ”, taken from “Solaris”. In this multifaceted imagery, with a deliberately indecipherable form to adhere to the vision of those who inspire it, there is also a place for the words recited by Father Arsenij, a poet to whom the Russian director had a complex relationship, proposed to give completeness to an evocative path that aims to restore the essence of a master without equals.
05/07/2024
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
