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PAOLO F. BRAGAGLIA
MENSURA PROJECT
Paolo F. Bragaglia
synth, computer
Matteo Moretti
bass
David Cervigni
percussions and electronics
guest
Monica Demuru
voice
Size: 6,9
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Paolo F. Bragaglia is a notable exponent of the Italian
electronic scene with both a particular and eclectic style and a musician
and composer of musical soundtracks for independent films, creator of
multimedial performances, author of original jingles for commercials
both nationally and internationally (collaborating with the more notable
ad agencies and production groups).
In the spring of 2000, his first album "Magnum Chaos" made
its debut on Fridgezone Label; an album of electronic instrumental music,
with the extraordinary participation of Mauro Pagani on violin in three
different pieces. The basic idea of the album is the construction of
strongly evocative and intense musical textures, with a collision of
varying musical material - pulsating beats, samples and acoustical instruments,
dark metropolitan atmospheres, industrial rhythms, drum'n’bass,
dub.
In June of 2002, Fridgezone published Kinomuziq (short film and video
soundtracks 1994/2002) a collection of extracts from scores realized
by Bragaglia over the course of ten years: video, short films (presented
in context in events of international importance such as the Venice
Film Festival) performances and video-choreography (the presence of
the ex-Lounge Lizard, Steve Piccolo, can be noted on two tracks).
During the course of 2002, Bragaglia makes his premiere as a producer
for 2 cds on the Fridge Label: Drunken Butterfly “Pornocoma”
(alternative rock) and Massimo Giacon “Nella Città Ideale”
(electro-pop-rock)
January 2003 – MENSURA (FRIDGEZONE)Mensura is the second official
album by Paolo F. Bragaglia. As in the first album, "Magnum chaos",
he takes us on a musical journey through territory of which he is fond,
with a well-summarized evolution defined by lyrical and pulsating sound
at the same time, as can be found in the first piece of the album: “Le
Fantôme électrique”.
Beats, synthetic sounds of various genres, digital manipulation form
classical music samples (Le fantôme neoclassique), "electronica"
of teutonic making opens to melodic gradations and to traditional song
form, accompanied by the beautiful vocals of Monica Demuru (who has
collaborated with Timet, Stefano Bollani, Elliott Sharp, Hector Zazou,
Zeena Parkins, amongst others; and actress as well with the Societas
Raffaello Sanzio) She appears in the persuasive 'Dopplereffekt",
in the evocative "Grotesque", as well as in the unsettling
and enigmatic "Radiovox".
On the cover is the sculpture Lilium (2002) by the artist Carla Mattii.
Monica Demuru graduated in recitation from the Laboratory
Nove School in Florence in 1993. She continued her artistic education
studying dance as well as singing. Aside from her work as a theatrical
actress, she actively participates as a vocalist and author of theatrical
projects, musicals and video. For a number of years she has been involved
with theatre with the Societas Raffaello Sanzio in the shows "Buchettino"
and "Voyage au bout de la nuit". In regards to her musical
activities, she has participated for a three year period in the vocal
research project by Tacite-voci-ensemble directed by Bruno De Franceschi;
she also collaborates on projects with Lorenzo Brusci (Timet) and Stefano
Bollani. She has performed as well with Enrico Rava, Ares Tavolazzi,
Antonello Salis, Elliot Sharp, Zeena Parkins, Mattiew Ostowskij, Jamie
Saft, Ikue Mori, Steve Piccolo, Roberto Gatto, Barbara Casini, Massimo
Altomare, Marco Parente, Gianluca Petrella, Xavier Girotto, Enrico Fink,
Marco Lamioni, Hector Zazou, and Giovanni Guaccero. A few notes on Mensura.
Mensura is an album that brings into play the different 'souls' of electronic
music, playing with its many incarnations. Different in equal measure
from the universe encompassed by club music and from a more radical
experimentation, it searches in a certain way, to make a synthesis between
different worlds. The style of this album tries to move away from the
more lyrical and cinematographic texture of past works ("Magnum
Chaos" and the collection of soundtracks "Kinomuziq"),
searching to render nude, instead, the synthetic nerves and pulsing
symmetries of which popular electronic music is comprised. The supposed
boldness of 'electro' drum machines, the everchanging and frigid sonority
obtained by processing algorithms which inhabit the hard disks of modern
laptops, the large sonoric presence of analogical vintage synth are
just some of the elements which are used to give body to the album Mensura.
Concealed in the album is the willingness to investigate how the icy
mechanical piston of a TR606 (vintage drum machine) can still be indulging
to the ear, how it can still have an emotive appeal. How, in synthesis,
the rigid rhythm and cold display of voices generated by a machine,
can instead generate an authentic sentiment of 'post-future' romanticism,
not only in nostalgic terms but also as a language perfectly coherent
with our world today.
From this point, then, the work principally consists of pieces and in
some cases what we refer to as 'songs', that give consistence to this
overall vision.
Discografia
1999 - Magnum Chaos - Fridge/Sony Music Publishing FRZN003CD
2002 - Kinomuziq - Fridge/Sony Music Publishing FRZN005CD
2003 - Mensura - Fridge/Sony Music Publishing FRZN006CD
