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01/09/10
LORENZO SENNI "Dunno" CD - out now!
Produced, edited, mixed by Lorenzo Senni and mastered by Marcus Schmickler, "Dunno" is the very first official release from the 27years old italian founder of Presto!?; his previous release "Early works" (2007) is a collection of old re-edited tracks mainly influenced by early laptop heroes Mego style.
Now with "Dunno" we have a pure computer music record where digital psychedelia meets brutal pulasr synthesis trains and sharp FM streams.
Built up with a double approach, "Dunno", is something between vintage experimentalism of the computer music pioneers and the new digital brutality of fat, acid glissandos and shepard tones in rave style. Using a large palette of computer synthesized sounds and a sophisticated musical awareness he creates ten tracks of beautiful artificial energies and abstract pleasure.
http://www.prestorecords.com/catalog014.html
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30/08/10
LORENZO SENNI - Japan Tour 2010
5/9 @SOUP - Tokyo
6/9 @FTFTFTF - Tokyo
7/9 @BAR ISSHEE - Tokyo
9/9 @NANYA - Nagoya
10/9 @URBANGUILD - Kyoto
11/9 @SOCRATES - Kyoto
12/9 @HELLUVA LOUNGE - Kobe
13/9 @METAMORPHOSIS - Kobe
14/9 @ATHALL - Oita
16/9 @BAR FUJI - Omuta
17/9 @KATAKAMUNA - Kobe
18/9 @ART SPACE TETRA - Kyushu
Lorenzo Senni website >>> http://www.prestorecords.com/lorenzosenni.html
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05/08/10
MATTIN ""Object of Thought" LP - goes into production.
Rashad Becker is just mastering it in Berlin @Dubplates & Mastering and we are still working
on the artwork. Expected release is around mid/end september, ready to be available during
Presto!? Showcase Two ( 13 /14/15/16 October 2010 )
Listen an excerpt of ""Object of Thought"" >>>
www.mattin.org
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21/05/10
Presto!? chose Diogenes as official digital distributor for its releases.
Sold out titles or almost sold out records are now ready to be purchased on-line in digital
high-quality format (FLAC or MP3)
Now you can find Presto!? releases on the best on-line stores like iTunes, Amazon , eMusic, Boomkat, Spotify, Juno, Other Music Digital, Lala, Fina Music ... and more coming.
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06/05/10
MARCUS SCHMICKLER - LP/CD - soon on Presto!?
Marcus Schmickler is internationally well known in various contexts of contemporary music.
He is closely associated with the a-Musik label and in recent years he has worked in the fields of electronic, improvised, experimental and new music as well as doing scores, radioplays and unusual pop music projects. His recent releases feature choir- and chamber music, a new computer music piece as well as a new record under the banner of Pluramon with Julee Cruise. Recently he premiered a new drum-quartet in Milwaukee. His continuous collaborations feature settings with analogue Synth wiz Thomas Lehn and British pianist John Tilbury. He is also member of MIMEO and Pluramon. He has received numerous prizes and his work has been represented all over the globe. He has released music with Mego, A-Musik, Erstwhile, Häpna and collaborated with Thomas Lehn, Thomas Brinkmann, Keith Rowe, Toshimaru Nakamura, John Tilbury, Hayden Chisholm, Peter Rehberg "Pita", Florian Hecker.
ALBERTO DE CAMPO LP - soon on Presto!?
Alberto de Campo has studied classical composition and electronic music in Austria and the US. After working at UC Santa Barbara, designing experimental software instruments with Curtis Roads, he taught at Media Arts Academy Cologne, the Institute for Electronic Music in Graz, and at TU Berlin. He held a professorship for Music Informatics at Music University Duesseldorf, and currently is Professor for Generative Art at Arts Univ. Berlin.
He plays with powerbooks_unplugged (just in time programming on mostly unamplified laptops); improvisation groups with acoustic instruments such as Quiet Noise Quartet, Syntopia Ensemble, and ad hoc constellations; electronic music with BlippooHazard (four musicians playing the Blippoo Box, a hardware synth by Rob Hordijk). Recent projects include creating software instruments and sound installations with Florian Hecker, e.g. ‘No Night No Day’ at Biennale Venice, and AuditoryObjects (Bordeaux), and collaborating with Marcus Schmickler and Carsten Goertz on “Bonner Durchmusterung”, a project involving sonification und visualisation of atronomical data.
www.sonenvir.at/author/adecampo
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24/04/10
CHRISTIAN WOLFARTH / ENRICO MALATESTA "Mirrors" CD - out now!
There is not a lot to say when a young talented percussionist meet one of the master of improvised music, also percussionist; we can just sit and listen what happens.
This is what exactly did the guys at Cosabeat Studio during "Mirrors" recording session.
The result is incredible. You can really feel the musicians concentration and then understand the importance of every sound they created. This is a focused, brilliant, top class "sound dialogue" between two of the most dedicated artist i have ever met.
04 may at WIM, Zurich
05 may at Atelier, Basel
06 may at MusikForum, Luzern
07 may at DampfZentrale, Bern
08 may at SCT, Bellinzona
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26/03/10
CM VON HAUSSWOLFF / JAN HÅFSTRÖM / JUAN PEDRO FABRA "GRAF SPEE" LP
"Graf Spee" start as an audio-visual collaboration between artists CM von Hausswolff,
Jan Håfström and Juan Pedro Fabra. "Graf Spee" LP is a new step in developing this work.
"Graf Spee" LP is limited to 500 copies. A small amount of records, the ART EDITION, 50 of 500, comes on white vinyl with an handnumbered, signed and dated insert by the artists.
Graf Spee I is a collaborative audio-visual work permanently installed at Wanås,
Sweden on May 13 2007 and Graf Spee II is a collaborative audio-visual work installed at Momentum, 5th Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art in Moss, Norway,
between
Aug 29 - Oct 18 2009.
> next planned releases: Marcus Schmickler, ALberto De Campo, Mattin, Wolfarth - Malatesta,
Lorenzo Senni, Scott Arford, Francisco Meirino, WW ...
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22/02/10
Mattin's new album "Object of Thought" (LP) is going to be one of the stunning
releases of the year. A deep work around meanings, improvistation, extreme music
and how these things take shape.
Mattin is a Basque artist working with noise and improvisation. His work seeks to address the social and economic structures of experimental music production through live performance, recordings and writing.
Mattin considers improvisation not only as an interaction between musicians and instruments, but as a situation involving all the elements that constitute a concert, including the audience and the social and architectural space. He tries to expose the stereotypical relation between active performer and passive audience, producing a sense of strangeness and alienation that disturbs this relationship.
He runs w.m.o/r , Free Software Series, Desetxea labels and he collaborated with Lucio Capece, Rosy Parlane, Radu Malfatti, Taku Unami, Matthew Bower, Oren Ambarchi, Werner Dafeldecker, Kouhei Matsunaga, Christof Kurzmann, Anthony Guerra, Taku Sugimoto, Yasuo Totsuka, Axel Doerner, Tony Conrad, Keith Rowe just to name a few.
expected release date > may 2010
Mattin website >>>
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19/02/10
Presto!? on THE WIRE #313 > Stefano Pilia "Last Days vol. II" & Claudio Rocchetti "The Carpenter"
March issue of THE WIRE offers to its followers two nice reviews of the latest Presto!?
releases > Byron Coley, talking about Stefano Pilia's "Last Days vol. II" in Size Matters section, start his article saying "this is a beautiful piece..." and Dan Warburton, in Souncheck section, describe the new album by Claudio Rocchetti like a quiet and focused path through different musical styles and the sounds that surround us. >>> read more in the Press section.
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08/02/10
DORO BENGALA " s/t " TAPE (Pro-duplicated) - C10
Doro Bengala is a mysterious duo coming up from the italian underground scene.
I have seen/listened them live a couple of times playing from the inside of a forest or near the
ruins of an abandoned industrial building > fireworks & electronics - electronics & fireworks.
"Doro Bengala propose a fireworks display, we use explosions as sounds and sounds as explosions of colours. We practise the art of sense stimulation through the use of coloured flames, of shrieks and low frequencies. Our group carry out a practice from Bengal founded by Mrs. Subhash Chandra Doro in the late 1895. Thank you for your attention. It was a pleasure."
Jump to the release page >>>
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21/12/09
LASSE MARHAUG "The Sky Above, The Bud Below" CHROME TAPE (out now)
Lasse Marhaug (b. 1974) has since the early 90ies been one of the most active artists in the so-called Norwegian noise scene. As a performer and composer he has contributed to well over 200 CD, vinyl and cassette releases over the years, as well as extensive touring and performing live in Europe, Asia and America. In addition to his solo work, Marhaug plays regularly in projects Jazkamer, Puma w/Merzbow and Jim O'Rourke, Nash Kontroll, DEL and Testicle Hazard. Past projects and bands include Origami Replika and Lasse Marhaug Band. He has collaborated with several artists in the fields of noise, experimental, improv, jazz, rock and extreme metal, as well as working with music and sound for theatre, dance, installations and video. He works with different kinds of instrumentation; from guitar-pedals and homemade electronics to computers and modified guitars, but conciders the mixing-board his main instrument. Marhaug was born in the northern regions above the Arctic Circle of Norway, but currently lives and works in Oslo.
( Lasse Marhaug website >>> )
The edition is limited to 250 Pro-duplicated Chrome Tapes / high-quality printed cardboard inlay, photo by our lovely Valeria Picerno. (see above)
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10/12/09
Presto!? on Abitare Magazine - ITALIAN OXYGEN 09
In December 2009, a year after the first edition of “Ossigeno Italiano ” (Italian Oxygen ) Abitare Magazine will dedicate a special issue to a 45 new projects and proposals for italy’s contemporary places, things and people from the new architectural scene, in the world of design, the visual arts, urban politics, fashion, advertising, social science, cinema, theatre, the creative industries and music >>> Presto!? is one of these.
>>> check out the on-line section and VOTE for Presto!? in just one click.
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22/11/09
CARL MICHAEL VON HAUSSWOLFF "Graf Spee" LP (goes into production!)
I'm very very happy to announce this record NOW that we have just finished to celebrate
the first birthday of Presto!? - Things are going well so, be prepared to give an everyday quick
scan to our website - big names, deluxe editions and nice events are coming very soon!
Two tracks of incredible beauty from one of the finest masters of contemporary electronic music - Deep, powerful, brutal, quietly melodic drone massages from The King.
soon:
Lasse Marhaug "The Sky Above, The Mud Below" Chrome Tape C20
Francisco Meirino "Subjected To Testing The Stasis" Tape C40
Wolfarth / Malatesta "Mirrors" CD
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02/11/09
CLAUDIO ROCCHETTI "The Carpenter" (LP) goes into production!
The work of Claudio Rocchetti is a deep plunge into thick sound, investigating its innermost workings. Using a variety of devices such as turntables, tapes, samplers, radios, and microphones, often incorporating other objects and traditional instruments, Berlin-based Rocchetti builds compelling structures that employ sound as sheer matter, mass, and impact. The tarry, mesmerizing hues that characterize his “music objects” are grounded in layers of sound detritus.
From techno rhythms to slow melodies, edgy constructions to samples of choirs and strings, Rocchetti builds layered structures of elusive elements whose sources are often hidden, and enacts a mirror play which may cause dizziness.
Presto!? Showcase was great!!! thanks a lot to those who came to the concerts and who helped me planning everything > Simone & Barbara @Hundebiss, Silvia - Daniele & Luciano @Raum/Xing, Enrico & Officina 49 Crew @DPYS Festival, Christopher @Bronson Produzioni, Marco & Fanny Alexander @Almagià, Nicola @Zuni, Nico, Gio & PJ @Codalunga.
Check out >>> tons of brutal pics from our 7gigs/7days Presto!? Tour around Italy!
Forthcoming releases: Carl Michael Von Hausswolff, Francisco Meirino, Lorenzo Senni, Malatesta/Wolfart
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29/09/09
Hey folks,
Presto!? showcase is ready to kick asses around Italy.
From harsh and intelligent noise spread out by the califonian John Wiese and the extreme computer music by EVOL, through the amazing Stefano Pilia's guitar sound and the young talented percussionist Enrico Malatesta, to the powerful streams of digtal sound particles spit out by Lorenzo Senni.
We will be on tour from the 8th to the 15th of october.
please check out the showcase program here >>>
8th Oct - EVOL + Lorenzo Senni @private show - Milan
9th Oct - EVOL + Lorenzo Senni + Pilia/Malatesta @zuni - Ferrara
10th Oct - EVOL + Lorenzo Senni + special guest Dave Phillips @circ. sud - Lugo
11th Oct - J. Wiese + EVOL + L. Senni + S. Pilia + E. Malatesta @DPYS - Cesena
12th Oct - John Wiese + EVOL + Lorenzo Senni @almagià - Ravenna
13th Oct - John Wiese + EVOL + Lorenzo Senni @raum - Bologna
14th Oct - John Wiese + EVOL + Lorenzo Senni @hundebiss - Milano
15th Oct - John Wiese + EVOL + Lorenzo Senni @codalunga - Vittorio Veneto
>>> you'll find super/special/big deals if you buy records during one of the Presto!? showcase night.
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28/09/09
... is now out Stefano Pilia "Last Days vol. II" 7" (limited to 300 copies)
Recorded this sping in New York, Last Days vol. II is the second part
of a three chapters project (1st release was a one sided 12" by 8mm Rec.) by the iitalian electro-acoustic composer and multi-instrumentalist Stefano Pilia. On this new 7” we are going to discover another graceful face of Pilia’s electric guitar work: warm fingering on a buzzing amplifier carpet, slowly built emotions and deep compositional awareness. This is Presto!?008
amazing cover by Canedicoda! enjoy >>>
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21/08/09
What they said about Presto!? and its releases ...
... here’s a model of really severe starkness which does not leave a millimetre of space to anything remotely resembling “aural gratification”. This is the end of the description for those who approach this kind of matter shallowly. Now come to me, discerning people: this is a great record. (Temporary Fault, Massimo Ricci) >>>
Excellent improvised music. (Vital Weekly, Frans de Waard) >>>
... il terzo pezzo è una figata: 21 minuti di base punk-ignoranza con la vocina di un bambino che dice “Mommy! I’m a zombie!”.Lo adoro. (Vice Magazine, Blaze of Tentacles) >>>
Thanks to John Wiese's 21-minute looped version of Melissa-era Drunks With Guns "Zombie" I just impulsively bought the original 2x7" on Ebay.
(Blastitude, Larry Dolman) >>>
A worthy tribute by this most intelligent of noise-makers to one of his personal favourite singles. The front cover art, depicting three black metal goons with makeup, long hair, leather boots and wristlets while going surfing and flying a kite, is just priceless. (The sound projector, Ed Pinsent) >>>
On and On's marathon 70 minute duration means it's best dipped into for 10 or 15 minutes at a time - i'm no more capable of listening to it all the way through in one sitting than i am of winning the world chess championship. Though I don't admire it any the less for that. (NicK Chain, The Wire) >>>
... la label cesenate Presto!?, curata da Lorenzo Senni, è la più interessante tra le realtà italiane (e non solo) che si dedicano alla musica come 'oggetto sonoro' più che come vaso comunicatore di un senso che non può più esistere (8) all' etichetta. (Blow Up, Stefano I. Bianchi)
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01/08/09
I'm very glad to announce that is now out - EVOL "Fart Synthesis"
'Fart Synthesis' is the 8th episode in EVOL's ongoing Punani series, and was edited from live recordings in Osaka, Kiev and Toulouse between 2008 and 2009.
All sounds were synthesized on the fly on various computers. The final tracks were assembled in Barcelona in the spring of 2009
using generative algorithms to splice and rearrange a large amount of sound files.
The title of this cassette comes from a series of chats and discussions on digital synthesis techniques by Rubén Patiño (aka Pato) and Roc Jiménez de Cisneros.
enjoy >>>
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08/06/09
finally out! >>> JOHN WIESE "Zombie" is ready to be shipped!
i must say that i'm really really proud of it, so... fuck crisis - release music!
EVOL " Fart Synthesis" (TAPE) - goes into production!
EVOL recordings and performances explore the many sides of digital noise and algorithmic composition. Harsh and bloody trips along the most extreme path of computer music, putting together sonic brutality, crazy algebra, fractal structures and a slight ironic touch.
STEFANO PILIA "Last Days vol. II" (7") - goes into production!
Stefano Pilia is an electro-acoustic composer and multi-instrumentalist. He works deeply on the sculputural dimensions of sound and its relations with space; both through instrumental executional practices and investigations into the recording and production process.
Forthcoming 2009/2010 - Marcus Schmickler, Lasse Marhaug, Claudio Rocchetti, WW, Mattin, Scott Arford, Lorenzo Senni, CM Von Hausswolff
will be out soon a 50 copies (tape) RE-ISSUE of Enrico Malatesta "Standard",
original artwork with some minor changes.
stay tuned.
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06/06/09
Hey, check out this! >>> NEW PICS - SOLO EU TOUR (scroll down)
Thanks a lot to everyone who supported me in this crazy adventure!
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17/04/09
Hey folks,
i'm going to finish "DUNNO" (LP), my first official release on Presto!?
but first i want to play this awesome Eu tour and collect more and more
live recordings to cut and put directly into the new record without editing and overdubs.
8 may > Fontanelle - Lausanne - Paris - Antwerp - Copenhagen - Malmo - Stockholm - Berlin - Berlin - Leipzig - Vienna - V. Veneto - Ferrara - Cesena < 31 may
>>> more info about "DUNNO" Eu Tour
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09/04/0)
> > > NEW AGE CONVENTION - 8/9 may - FONTANELLE (TV)
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20/03/09
> TRANSMISSION FESTIVAL (Ravenna) 25 - 28 March 2009
Blixa Bargeld – Fennesz – KTL – Oren Ambarchi – Orthographe – Dario Neri
Punck – Black Fanfare – Lorenzo Senni – Juglandacee
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05/03/09
.>>> just a quick exciting update
JOHN WIESE "ZOMBIE" LP goes into production!
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04/03/09
Hi Folks,
as we said...
new year >>> new formats
I'm really happy to announce, as the first of a long series of tape releases, this excellent soundwork from Enrico Malatesta, a young talent of the electro-acoustic
italian scene.
Using an hand made china and a classical bass drums only he spits out six beautiful
completely acoustic studio recordings.
File under: Harmonic richness / deep acoustic drones
>>> JUMP to CATALOG section!!
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19/01/09
OLYVETTY ( Berlin )
+ Lorenzo Senni
OLYVETTY is an audio/visual environment created by musician Claudio Rocchetti and visual artist Riccardo Benassi. Systematic plumbing of noise depths and minimal-techno dérives is set to draw visionnaire landscapes.
on Monday 1 February - 22 pm / suggested donation 4 €
--
more shows?
This guys are kickin' asses!!!
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20/12/08
New year - new formats!
7", 12" and tapes will be released by Presto!? during 2009.
> forthcoming releases / 2009
Mattin, Marcus Schmickler, Scott Arford, Mike Shiflet, Lorenzo Senni, Evol, John Wiese and Lasse Marhaug.
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12/12/08
I'm glad to announce that is now out:
Werner Dafeldecker "Long dead machines I - IX" CD
This is the first double bass solo record of the musician, composer and producer (co-founder of Durian) Werner Dafeldecker that focuses his work on on improvisation, eletronic music and cross-over projects.
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1/11/08
Two new releases out:
GREG DAVIS / STEVEN HESS "Thirty thirty" CD
LAWRENCE ENGLISH / TOM HALL "Euphonia" CD
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15/10/08
hey folks, "early works", Lorenzo Senni first release, is now out. it is a collaboration between Presto!? and Keshhhhhh. If you want more info about it check out Keshhhhhh profile.
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2/08/08
JOHN HUDAK "On and on" is ready to be shipped! Listen mp3 excerpt and watch how it looks in our catalog section.
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27/07/08
...Welcome to newborn Presto!?'s website. Please take an everyday quick scan of our website! we are almost ready to release our two first discs: "On and on" by the american acclaimed sound artist John Hudak and "Thirty thirty", a live recording result from the collaboration between Greg Davis and Steven Hess.
