COLONY - MILES AND MILES OF NOTHING

 

MILES AND MILES OF NOTHING

IIIHIII 06/2015 - SE062

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MILES AND MILES OF NOTHING - the new album of COLONY - is the last chapter of a trilogy about absence and memory, the first two chapters being the previous MUSIC FOR EMPTY ROOMS in 2013 and TIME DESTROYS EVERYTHING at the beginning of this year. I know that I'm callously ruminating on boring themes that were already old some hundred years ago and that I can't add something really new or particularly important to this famous and painful topic, but I don't care. For those of you still willing to follow the sonic meditations of Colony - and you have my endless gratitude and appreciation for this - here's a sixtyfour-minute soundtrack for an imaginary road movie.

I like movies very much. I like roads too. The less travelled they are, the better.

Sure, these roads are sometimes hard to find on the map - if there is one - and they may also hide long shadows and serious perils. You may lose yourself and come back home late at night. Or never come back at all. But there's also the chance to find an entirely, unexpected new direction. And a new landscape too. Or maybe a door that opens on the same old house from where you left the day before. You think you're home and safe again and then you discover that someone else is now living in your place. Wearing your dresses. Eating your dinner. Sleeping in your bed. And that person is you. Pretty frightening.

Another scene.
Imagine the postman delivers you a letter.
The envelope is closed and there's a writing on it. It says:
"Do not open until the last day".

It all could also be an allegory for the old "forgive and forget" story, but since I don't want to give away too many hints about MILES AND MILES OF NOTHING, let's say that it's a comfort to think there is always the possibility to find a way out.
Because there is always a possibility, isn't there?

As you will notice, the album contains some ambient tracks taken from the 2007 debut THIS MACHINE NEVER SLEEPS and the following MEET, MERGE, DISSOLVE. I know someone might say that this is a rather strange choice and suggest that perhaps ideas are running out in the lab, but I assure you that this is not the case: these tracks from the past of COLONY are here again for a precise reason and they are purposefully mixed together with the other present-day, all-new compositions created bearing in mind the aforementioned soundtrack.

Maybe there's something small and precious at the end of the road and then it will be really worth it to have traveled so long. Who knows.
But I think it's time to go. To move on.

The next step will be the already announced collection called NODES, which has been postponed when this new album suddenly came out from nowhere and immediately claimed to be finished as soon as possible. 

MILES AND MILES OF NOTHING has been released on the renowned italian electronic netlabel STATO ELETTRICO. You can download the album in MP3 format directly from the label's large catalogue here. Many, many thanks to everyone involved.

Some things never change. They have only ceased to exist as objects and since then they lived solely as non-datable circumstances, well far out from that sequence of elements we call time. 

"When your dreams are of some world that never was or of some world that never will be and you are happy again, then you will have given up" (Cormac McCarthy - The Road, 2006).

Always be elusive.

S.

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WE ARE INVISIBLE NOW, VOLUME 1

WE ARE INVISIBLE NOW - VOLUME 1

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WE ARE INVISIBLE NOW is a project I wanted to bring to life for quite some time.

This compilation features the works of several composers and sound-artists that I deeply admire and it is sonically focused on ambient, electronic, experimental and drone music. Most of these instrumental soundscapes have been created especially for this album, while a few others have been carefully chosen on purpose by their creators, so as to adhere to the general mood. I'm very pleased with the overall result and with the sonic flow that naturally surrounds the listener, leading the experience from one track to another until the very end.

The title of the album is pretty self-explanatory and I think it doesn't need to be further examined. Suffice to say that it could be easily everything the mind suggest in relation to the sound itself or simply just an invitation: a "let's meet in this twilight place" letter, sent to everyone who will choose to listen and dive into these two hours of beautiful, haunting music.

WE ARE INVISIBLE NOW - VOLUME 1 is released today, is free for you to download and share and features CARL SAGAN'S GHOST, KASHYA, PHILLIP WILKERSON, AKITO MISAKI, LATTICE, POSTDROME, EUS, MISLEADING STRUCTURES, A DEATH CINEMATIC, EIGENGRAU, SLEEP ORCHESTRA, HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY, WARM SPEAKERS, ON MOUNTAINS and I AM ESPER.

You can listen and download the whole album also on Archive.

Please follow and support all the wonderful musicians that have made this project possible. Enjoy the album and spread the word. Thank you.

There's also a new COLONY track in it, called "My Last Cup Of Cofee On The Way To Basel". I've never been to Basel. But I think I'll definitely go, should this be necessary sometime in the future. Only cats have many lives, while we have only one. And I agree that "the end is important in all things".

WE ARE INVISIBLE NOW - VOLUME 2 will be hopefully released this November. Keep in touch with the project and the musicians involved by following its page on this famous social network.

"Mystery has its own mysteries and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity" (Jean Cocteau - The Infernal Machine, 1932).

Always be elusive. 

S.

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COLONY - TIME DESTROYS EVERYTHING

TIME DESTROYS EVERYTHING

IIIHIII 05/2015

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After a ten-year long degenerative illness, my father passed away the same morning I went to the studio to begin mastering these tracks. I cannot help but see some beauty in such punctuality. TIME DESTROYS EVERYTHING is the fifth album of COLONY and is dedicated to him.

Some textures and soundscapes were created during the previous sessions of MUSIC FOR EMPTY ROOMS, but I decided not to include them in that album for fear of its playlist becoming really too long. So they ended up here pretty naturally, some of them with only little postproduction added and some drastically mixed with a lot of live improvisation, tape manipulation and other things. As a consequence of this free process - and as a precise choice too, obviously - in TIME DESTROYS EVERYTHING there are no riffs, no hooks, no beats or other discernible rhythmic structures. Well, almost.

Tracks 1, 12 and 13 were recorded in the controlled environment of my lab and represent the link between this last album and MUSIC FOR EMPTY ROOMS. As I wrote a year ago, they are indeed the first two chapters of a planned trilogy about absence and memory.

Many thank-you's go to my trustworthy sound engineer and long time friend Davide Saggioro of Wise Mastering Studio, who skillfully brought these tracks to life and to artist Michele Morando for allowing me to use his painting called "Chambre Sur La Mer": I believe it is the perfect representation of the sound of TIME DESTROYS EVERYTHING. You can find more information about him and his atelier here.

And finally my deepest gratitude goes to all of YOU, dear listeners and followers in my country and around the world. I'm happy and proud to say that you are many.

I don't know if time can really destroy everything, but a part of me doesn't hope so for sure. The other part simply just doesn't care.

However, in a constant struggle with entropy, it's already time to step ahead and move on. The next album is called NODES and it is a collection of ambient tracks which - over the last eight years - I dropped out at the last minute essentially for a matter of sonic homogeneity with the albums in which they should have been included. And then again - hopefully in 2016 - I'll be back to my roots with some serious kick drums, bass lines and more strictly-electronic stuff like that. Since things tend to be more short-term than we might think, it is important to have a lot of things to do in life.

"Got into something dangerous and strange. I was into nothing and that's the way I behaved. And I like those deep dark thoughts that leave you stranded way in mid-air. And I'd like to do something that makes somebody somewhere care. Playing with fire, why should I mind? I'm going beyond now and what will I find? Corridors filled with smoke and all the trees uprooted and dead. I was torn apart by my love for a different land" (Lawrence - Hours Of Darkness Have Changed My Mind, 1986).

Always be elusive. 

S.

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