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. This is the special edition that comes with a 24 page comic book and a professionally pressed CDR of exclusive collaborations with Geins't Naït and Philip Sanderson! Ltd. ed. of 100 copies of which only 25 are for sale through Klanggalerie! Full tracklist: CD1: 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 CD 2: 1. Digging Up New Corpses 2. Shane MacGowan 10th of November 2023 3. George Michael 25th of December 2016 4. Ryuichi Sakamoto 28th of March 2023 5. Peter Brötzmann 22nd of June 2023 6. Tina Turner 24th of March 2023 7. George Winston 4th of June 2023 8. David Crosby 18th of January 2023. Price: € 35,-/copy incl. worldwide shipping.