Donato Dozzy - The Loud Silence (VINYL LP Further Records FUR 058LP) |--

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release date: 10/9/2015
2022 restock; LP version. Includes deluxe printed inner sleeve, poster, and download code. In April 2015, Donato Dozzy took a set of mouth harps to his parents' house in the Italian countryside and set about exploring the possibilities of that most basic of instruments. The mouth harp had been calling to Donato Dozzy ever since childhood, and he had begun to see in this peculiar, ancient sound the roots of the music he'd been making and playing in clubs. The Loud Silence is the result of those explorations, an accompanied deep-dive into childhood memory, social history, and the roots of psychedelia. Recorded indoors and outdoors; halfway up mountains and on the edge of the Mediterranean Sea, the album is meditative but also powerful. Each track maintains an inviolable central pulse, while delicate, fluttering sounds hint at vast spaces waiting for the listener to connect with them. Field recordings hover below the resonating harps, adding to the mysterious atmosphere. Tracks like "The Loud Silence" and "Downhill to the Sea" are wrapped up in simple rhythms, their strict throb drawing the listener in. The organic physicality of the sound, made in concert with the body itself, generates a primal response in the listener; an undeniably visceral understanding; an empathetic resonance. The Loud Silence is Donato Dozzy's second solo album, and it sees him return to Further Records, with which released his first solo album, K, in 2010 (FUR 018CD/LP). The two albums share a sense of dynamic movement within a limited sphere. It's not minimal, exactly -- it's hard to describe such a rich sound as minimal or reduced in any way -- but it gets the most out of a small, well-chosen set of tools. As on his 2015 album Sintetizzatrice (SP 038CD/LP), a full-length collaboration with singer Anna Caragnano, the ability to make a single element the center of a musical world is enthralling. Anyone who has followed Donato Dozzy's work, whether the celebrated Voices from the Lake collaboration with Neel, the otherworldly mixes he's done for mnml ssgs and electronique.it, or, particularly, his 2013 album of Bee Mask remixes for the Spectrum Spools label (SP 029CD), will see that The Loud Silence is a continuation of a lifelong fascination with sound and its potential to bring people, times, and places together. This album is the first in Further's series exploring the depth of one instrument, preceding a solo record from Nuel focused on the Ekdahl Polygamist synthesizer.
Track Listing:
Disc 1
Side A
01.    Personal Rock    01:30
02.    Cross Panorama    01:30
03.    The Loud Silence    01:30
04.    The Net    01:30
Side B
05.    For Arnaud    01:30
06.    Downhill to the Sea    01:30
07.    Concert for Sails    01:30
08.    Exit the Acropolis    01:30
- Second solo album from Donato Dozzy (Voices from the Lake), following his 2010 solo debut, K.
- Explores the possibilities of the mouth harp, using the instrument's organic physicality with field recordings and an inviolable central pulse to create a meditative, powerful album.
- The first release in Further's series exploring the depth of one instrument, preceding a solo record from Nuel focused on the Ekdahl Polygamist synthesizer.
- LP includes deluxe printed inner sleeve, poster, and download code.
- Mastered by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering.
- Previous releases on Spectrum Spools, Editions Mego, Prologue, Mule, and Acid Test.

• Condition: NEW
• Format: Vinyl
• Format Detail: LP
• Genre: TECHNO
• Released: 10/9/15