In
1964 Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni set Red Desert, his ninth
movie, in the industrial area of Ravenna, the Piallassa valley, full of
huge cold factories and machines, crossed by a polluted river ending in
an intertidal foreshore.
I was born in Ravenna in 1964.
This is a little journey on the original movie locations, 43 years
later. While I was searching for the lost atmosphere, I realized that
time, in Ravenna, seemed to have stood still.
This work is a tribute to Michelangelo Antonioni, to my hometown and to the Piallassa.
Artist: Punck
Title: Piallassa (red
desert chronicles )
Format:
CD
Tracks: 1
Playing time: 38:04
Release date: July
2008
price=10€
(postage included all over the world)
Drunk
Upon Thy Holy Mountain
(Setola
di Maiale - 2008 - SM1100)
Is this platter coming out of
a snail mail collaboration maybe? Or just plain out of a telepathic
transmission? Does it matter? A cluster of minds approach another,
devouring and inoculating, ejecting biographic splinters into
autobiographic fuzz and buzz; all the charming allure of weed informed
mycotic tic-tac-toeing, inserting missing pieces where there were
already too many competing for survival or a simple spot in the sun. At
a point you will surely feel lost and asking for directions: we thought
about that too: and in the swarm of field recorded days and holy
machines chunking years old three copies run cdr releases you'll find
more than directions. To be blunt about it: one long track, basically
concealing four or five others, impregnated with triumphant surf
singalongs, victorious drone chases, cut-up and glued down cigarette
pack robots dancing a snail paced belly dance, intertwined with
psychotic skips and scats and what have you, a relentless celebration
of laetitia hodie. Get it while it's cheap, fresh and fun!
Artist: Logoplasm & Punck
Title: drunk upon thy
holy mountain
Format:
CD-r
Tracks: 1
Playing time: 38:04
Release date: January
2008
price=7€
(postage included all over the world)
( or send
payment by email directly to:
ctrlaltcanc@punck.net )
a
constant migration (between reality and fiction)
(Creative
Sources Recordings cs079-2006)
This is the
second long length record made by the Italian artist Punck, alias
Adriano Zanni. “A Constant Migration” is an
evolving continuous trip into the experimental music between light
drones and clanging atypical rhythms, whispering voices and barking
dogs, field recordings and relieving melodies, and most of all between
reality and fiction.
The whole record is done under the final supervision by Hue (Matteo
Uggeri of Sparkle in Grey) that smoothed and mastered all the
Punck’s accurate sound sculptures.
Artist: Punck
Title: a constant
migration (between reality and fiction)
Format: CD in jewel
case with white tray
Tracks: 6
Playing time: 55:27
Release date: October
2006
price=7
€ (postage included all over the world)
nowhere
campfire tapes cd 2005
(Afe
Records/ctrlaltcanc Records)
Artist: Punck
Title: Nowhere Campfire
Tapes
Format: CD in jewel
case with white tray
Tracks: 4
Playing time: 56:23
Release date: April
2005
"Nowhere
Campfire Tapes" is Punck's full-lenght
debut CD and is released as a Ctrl+Alt+Canc / Afe
joint venture. The album was recorded during 2004-2005 and follows two
highly appreciated self-released CD-R EPs, many compilation appearances
and a long and untired serie of live activities. It was created
manipulating many different kinds of acoustic sources with audio
editors and softwares. Among such sources we find digital synthesis, contact microphones and
field-recordings."Nowhere Campfire Tapes" features
four slowly evolving tracks, with three of them lasting over the ten
minutes mark. "Almost Anything" is pervaded with
disturbing frequencies, distant metal noises and ticking rain; the
latter being a recorring element on the album. "Adriatico
Lisergico" (...or "Lysergic Adriatic"
if you prefer...) starts with the treated recording of sea waves
breaking against the shore, while abstract electronic soundscapes
appear along the way. Approaching the end of the track, cutted-up
voices are added just before sinking into sea waves again."Tsunami
Notes" features the reciting voice of Paolo
Ippoliti from
Logoplasm along with sub-bass drones
and high-pitched sounds. As the voice stops, the sound of a rainstorm
fades in and out of the mix and a distant airplane fly over the last
drops of pelting rain."Almost Nothing" closes the
album merging most of the elements found in the previous tracks in a
perfect fusion of found-sounds, field-recordings, drones and
digital/electronic frequencies.
price=7
€ (postage included)
( or send payment by
email
directly to:
ctrlaltcanc@punck.net )
it took me more than
twenty days to be able to write something about this disc, mostly
because it blows me away, every single time i listen to it. i tried
describing it, writing about my feelings, tried taxonomy, vivisection,
hallucination. and still no way to write something that could even
vaguely describe it. then in the morning i woke up, and listened to it
again , over coffee. being now familiar with it, i let it run through
my brain, from the piercing drone in the beginning, contrapuncted by
slow and thick electricity pulses, passing through the simple soaring
melody hidden in the short, threading envelopes of concrete snippets in
the second track, to the chilling song where italian history, in the
form of terrorists calling crying people to announce a killing, gets
framed over what seems a processed unengaged phone line. still this
works destroys me and leave me empty for words. i might write something
like this disc deserving to be out on, say, 12k, but no, this is
self-released, and a pride for everyone self-releasing, it would be
senseless. so i'll stop writing, here and now. get this disc, do
nothing else than getting this disc. then you'll understand. comment by paolo ippoliti (logoplasm)
