"Cani Lenti" is a collection of duels, some may say. As the two minds of Cesare Lopopolo and Anna Vezzosi converge, a dichotomy of harmonious and contrasting sounds ebb, swirl and clatter in and amongst themselves. Using techniques from call and response improvisation, tape manipulation, experimental music and free-form folk, their approach to music making feels both atypical and familiar, organised and free-flowing, rooted and landless. Like the films of fellow Italian film-maker Alice Rohrwacher, Rosso Polare's music feels grounded in the earth, but sprouts and spreads in strange and often anachronistic ways.
The duo describe this album as it’s a struggle – a skirmish – that strives to resemble filmic sonorisations and forgotten sounds. Together they lead us on a journey into the depths of Chthonian Music.
(Fielding Hope - Cafe Oto)
Reissued with additional, previously unreleased tracks, "Cani Lenti" expands on the landscape depicted so far, with the idea of a sonic imagery which feel interstitial between organised “musical” sound and a more unorthodox, earthy and chtonian root linked by field recordings and a human cacophony close to natural bio-phony.
Written and performed by Cesare Lopopolo & Anna Vezzosi
Recorded between Milano and Brescia in 2020-2021
Mixed and produced by Cesare Lopopolo
Mastered by Alexander Pustynsky
Album art by Anna Vezzosi
Originally released by Takuroku
Rosso Polare are Cesare Lopopolo and Anna Vezzosi, experimental duo from Milan, Italy. One from the city, the other from the countryside; they combined ideas and constructed a peculiar musical language based on a mixture of field recording, call and response improvisation and audio manipulation.
Having their backgrounds in visual arts and sharing mutual interest in musical expression, they’ve been exchanging their sounds, exuding and absorbing from each other.
They released in 2020 their debut "Lettere Animali" via the Moscow-based label and collective Klammklang, followed by "Cani Lenti", available via Cafe Oto’s in house label Takuroku and reissued by ADN records.
Other collaborations include improvisational group SMIRNE and co-curation at Ebria Records.
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