The first single is entitled “Maya Deren Blues”, the video of which is an absolute preview on OndaRock, taken from the album “Vittorio Nistri – Filippo Panichi” released by Snowdonia Dischi and distributed by Audioglobe. A short short film dedicated to American director Maya Deren. A multifaceted filmmaker who has had phases of active political militancy, many loves and even a voodoo period in Haiti. But above all a pioneering experimental director, forerunner of video art. His debut film, “Meshes of the afternoon” from 1943, shot when he was only 26 years old, is considered one of the pinnacles of the entire history of surrealism. Vittorio Nistri and Filippo Panichi paid homage to an artist so far from any usual track with this song, contained in an album that is also “off the beaten tracks”, as a meeting between psychedelic chamber music and experimental electronics. And also musical intercourse between anarchy and writing: the sounds of research (based on unusual synthesizers and low costhome-made instruments, electronic toys, found and processed sounds, and so on), mostly improvised, are combined with the scores composed by Nistri for acoustic “chamber music” instruments: cello, viola, bass clarinet, double bass, trombone, saxophone . It is an album where melodies and harmonies are central, but they always move on the edge of chaos, and often fall there, through compositions born in difficult moments, both on a collective and personal level of the two musicians. The equivalent of searching for glimmers of light and beauty in situations that are the exact opposite: like hugging a loved one, while the planet Melancholia looms in the sky on a collision course. Vittorio Nistri is among the founders and stable members of Deadburger Factory, Ossi and Dead Freaks Society, and has collaborated with Claudio Milano, Maisie, Forbici di Manitù, St Ride and many others. While Filippo Panichi is active above all as a radical improviser in areas such as ambient-noise, drone music, and has self-produced digital albums available on Bandcamp.
VIDEO CREDITS:
Title: Maya Deren Blues
Author of the video: Filippo Panichi
Author of the music: Vittorio Nistri
Musicians: Silvia Bolognesi (double bass), Enrico Gabrielli (clarinet), Filippo Panichi (guitar, electronics), Vittorio Nistri (keyboards, electronics, double bass/guitar/clarinet arrangements)
Antonio Santini for SANREMO.FM