Horn Of Plenty has become one of our go-to labels. They're consistently peddling goods on our favoured side of the experimental music landscape, but often pushing those sounds to something near what even conservative music listeners would consider "music".
Maybe because I'd listened to Herbie Hancock's Sextant (his best??) beforehand but the Italian duo of Avvitagalli feels almost like Mosquitos deconstructing the initial era of Jazz-embracing-electricity, instead of post-punk. Or if the ghost of Eric Dolphy inhabited the body of a Penultimate Press recording artist. Sheesh, it's also kinda like the most BBC radiophonic workshop-y bits of those recent Broadcast reissues. - Nic
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Debut vinyl outing for Valentina Magaletti and Pino Montecalvo’s Avvitagalli project.Variegated percussion + WTF jams inspired by a visit to an abandoned, torched palazzo somewhere in southern Europe. Its charred, decaying splendour casts a fitting backdrop to the surreal push-pull of Valentina & Pino’s aural capers. None Corsa explores presence and absence, purpose and chance, and the tension between serenity and disquiet. Composing and decomposing, grabbing at modern composition, jazz, dub and post punk along the way.
None Corsa comes on black vinyl with a full colour cover and a striking 24 page zine with photography by Adele Di Nunzio. - Horn Of Plenty