Piallassa (red desert chronicles)

(Boring Machines - 2008 - BM008)

drunk upon thy holy mountain

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

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Drunk Upon Thy Holy Mountain

(Setola di Maiale - 2008 - SM1100)

drunk upon thy holy mountain

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

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 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

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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.

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aube noire ep

(Afe Records afe50017 2007)

aube noire ep

three very short compositioni recorded  during 2005/2006 

(limited edition to 50 numbered copies)

Artist: Punck
Title: aube noire
Format: CD-r Card with pro printed cardboard inesert 
Tracks: 3
Playing time: 5:40
Release date: April 2007

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Acustronic Ensemble : "free for(m) rimbaud

(AFK Records)

punck: laptop,objects,field recordings
vito m. laforgia: el upright bass,electronics
giuseppe mariani: trumpet,laptop
fhievel: feedback mixer,field recordings
luca sigurta': objects,tapes
impro session Recorded live in Rivara (To) 21-05-05 @ Blog On Rimbaud

 

Artist: Acustronic Ensemble
Title: free for(m) rimbaud
Format: CD-R
Tracks: 1
Playing time: 30.08
Release date: November 2005

(…)Le piaghe della poesia. Là hanno infilato le dita Laforgia, Mariani, Punck, Fihevel, Sigurtà. Quasi per caso, in un incontro non scontato, né previsto anche se auspicato. Musica improvvisa, più che improvvisata, test di visionarietà se non di veggenza. Frutto di variabili interattive in un contesto blandamente tematico, la musica s’è insinuata tra le pieghe/piaghe/fratture del ‘corpo Rimbaud’, sgretolando la vernice del con-senso intellettuale, dell’ossequio barricadiero. Le timbriche jazz (ma è jazz da decubito) della tromba di Mariani, il riduzionismo degli oggetti di Sigurtà e Fhievel (il tarlo della cancrena), la dronizzazione digitale di Punck (spatolatura, ora in primo ora in secondo piano, d’un olio ‘santo’ su un corpo poetico che c’è stato consegnato come ‘mummia’ culturale falsamente eversiva), l’aritmia cardiaca del contrabbasso di Laforgia. Là in mezzo si accumula la maceria sonora del rodere, con i denti e le unghie dell’anima, il muro spesso di significato che delimita lo zombierama-Rimbaud. Un muro costruito nel corso degli anni a chiuderci la visione. Rimbaud ci tiene le spalle voltate. Abbiamo sentito la sua voce ma l’ingombro del suo simulacro c’ha sempre più impedito di vedere quello che lui ha visto.Solo la musica, infilandosi tra le crepe del fallimento, e crescendo come  erba parassita, può dare frutti di bellezza e scardinare la prigione. Questa musica non c’entra con Rimbaud, ma entra in lui e ne disgrega l’immagine stantia.Ci sono gli scricchiolii d’un benedetto processo di demolizione, della liberazione di Rimbaud da se stesso. Si riprende da dove il poeta s’era azzittito e aveva lasciato che la il sangue della sua vita scrivesse la bellezza corrotta dell’impotenza umana.  Echi di vita, il grignotage della poesia, la verità della morte. Free for(m) Rimabud: Rimbaud finalmente libero, disteso nel suo nuovo battello, scorre sui flutti del suono.    Dionisio Capuano 

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a movie without images  3" cd-r  2004

(ctrlaltcanc Records)

1 track 20 min (a movie without images)

A mixture of field recordings,drones,objects and cinematic samples. A lysergic movie, without images, 20 minutes long directed by punck

Released by CtrlAltCanc Records    

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"MU" cd-r 2002

(self released)

5 tracks 20 min

(sublevel01-7min24sec-sublevel02-090578-sublevel03)

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)

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(punck+roberto fega+burkhard beins+fabrizio spera)

Impro Ensemble (live in rome 05-01-06)

Artists: Punck+R.Fega+B.Beins+F.Spera
Title: Impro Ensemble
Format: CD-R limited edition (50 copies) 
Tracks: 1
Playing time: 18.00
Recording date: 05-01-2006


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