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David Bowie 10th of January 2016
Maurice White 3rd of February 2016
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BARNACLES & VONNEUMANN The Gravedigger Kid

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Matteo Uggeri is an Italian visual designer and composer from Milan. He invests himself in sound poetry of everyday life, organized around a vast array of personal field recordings, plunderphonia and melodic compositions meticulously arranged in a story-telling way. He’s part of the duo Starlight Assembly along with Dominic Appleton and he plays in Sparkle in Grey, Open to the Sea and The Last Five Minutes. Recently, he has released an album in collaboration with Nigel Ayers, from Solstice to Equinox, as Nocturnal Emissions & Barnacles, followed up by a live presentation of the album in Vienna. Vonneumann is an experimental/post-rock band from Rome, Italy, established in 1999. The band is named after mathematician Johann von Neumann. Vonneumann pursues free-form compositions defying typical song-writing schemes through a complex mixture of radical improvisation and written riffs, with the aid of extreme forms of irony (often bordering with pure disinformation) and through stubborn electronics and massive doses of processing, both in real-time and in post-production. Vonneumann’s last album Johnniac was named among the best Italian post-rock albums of 2023. Vonneumann and Barnacles now team up to release the album The Gravedigger Kid. The genesis of this concept goes back to 2016, when Fabio Ricci (bass guitar, trumpet and drums for Vonneumann) reached out to Matteo Uggeri to propose a collaboration. This sparked an incredible mind journey that ultimately led to the development of a concept album based on the admiration dead musicians get from their followers and the almost necrophiliac way their legacy is often exploited. A hand-numbered deluxe version of 100 copies includes a 24-page comic book inspired by the early Skin Graft productions and a series of bizzare proto-remixes from Klanggalerie’s artists Phil Sanderson and Geins’t Nait. Full tracklist: 1. David Bowie 10th of January 2016 2. Keith Emerson 10th of March 2016 3. George Martin 8th of March 2016 4. Maurice White 3rd of February 2016 5. Prince 21st of April 2016 6. Pierre Boulez 5th of January 2016 7. Lemmy 28th of December 2015 8. Tony Conrad 9th of April 2016 9. Primo Brown 1st of January 2016 10. Zagor Camillas 14th of April 2020. Price: € 19,-7copy incl. worldwide shipping.

The bands approach is ironic and innovative, often pushing the boundaries of conventional music. Together, Barnacles and Vonneumann have created an album that not only pays tribute to musical legends but also challenges listeners to rethink their relationship with the legacies of these artists. The Gravedigger Kid is a compelling listen for anyone interested in the intersection of experimental music and cultural commentary.
(Vital Weekly, August 2024)

Le mani dei quattro musicisti si muovono coese, all insegna di un suono elegante e vitale, tra jazz e post-rock in un orbita del tutto personale ed intima. Quel che colpisce è la leggerezza con i quali riescano a farci viaggiare su un onda sonora coerente, limpida e leggera, rimanendo personali e sorprendenti lungo tutto il corso del disco, tra rimbrottii e tocchi soavi.
(Sodapop, August 2024)