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(ENG)[muep001] Mark Hamn - To the naked eye
Muertepop records celebrates its birthday with the first cdr release "To the naked Eye"; The musician Mark Hamn tries to aggregate the nine tracks, plus a bonus video track, around the same idea: the involution of post-modern humanity in the globalisation age, or more simply, a sour consideration about our days. Electroacoustic, glitch, field recordings and guitars remember that all of us have to change and avoid a little part of this ecological tragedy that is involving our earth. We have just to open our eyes!
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New disc is intitled "To the Naked Eye"
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Francesco Giannico, best known as Mark Hamn, originates from Carosino a small town near Taranto, in the southern part of Italy. He's graduated in "Musicology and Musical Heritage" at the University of Lecce with a thesis on "History of film music". Musically he was born as an indie-guitarist, but an unexpected convergence with experimental electronic music some ten years ago changed his musical orientation, driving him into a different direction. During the recent years several of his works were published on the Internet in the form of free downloadable albums by popular net labels, including the italian Sine3pm. His musical approach is better described as a cinematic journey which pushes the boundaries of digital media even further by incorporating smooth melodies and gentle textures. More canonical instruments such as guitar and piano are constantly present into Mark's music, within interrupted structures or long and dreaming sonorous carpets. His latest work entitled "Je déchire l'ongle aux criminels" was released in April 2007 as a friendly co-production between Afe and Bar La Muerte.
Mark Hamn's Last Release
Mark Hamn (Francesco Giannico)
"Je déchire l'ongle aux criminels" (Released by Afe Records Bar La Muerte) 2007
Published as a friendly co-production between Afe and Bar La Muerte.
Strangely enough, both Bruno Dorella of Bar La Muerte and Andrea Marutti of Afe contributed guitar and treatments on "Les Justes" - the long opening track - at an earlier stage when the album was still supposed to be released by another label.
The title of this track, and all the others as well, is a reference to the work of Arthur Rimbaud, the famous and influential french poète maudit.
"À partir est d'ici la seule solution" is a track which includes many of the elements used by Mark Hamn on this release. It begins with a looped woodwind instrument paired with laptop-generated high frequencies; a timpani roll introduces simple but effective guitar melodies and arpeggios accompanied by field recordings of water and rusty gear. The woodwind loop and timpani return in the closing section as a recording of a restless crowd in the distance discloses a sort of discomfort.
"Le besoin de la réflexion" is the shortest track on "Je déchire l'ongle aux criminels", it features fluid piano patterns finding their way through cinematic pads and various layers of microsounds.
"Malaises douces" begins with what seems to be an highly distorted guitar drone teamed up with digitally manipulated rhytmic noises. Peaceful guitar loops slowly emerge as more and more treated field recordings populate the background.
"La charnière du temps" is a lovely droney number that showcases particularly evocative qualities. It's a perfect soundtrack to accompany an old Super-8 home movie and the fading colours of what once was youth. For sure it is one of the tracks contained on "Je déchire l'ongle aux criminels" that impressed us the most.
With "Le vent fait un tour en dehors à la notification de moi" we get back into glitcher territories. This track is constructed on all sort of sound scoriae and offers a closer look on the digital side of Mark's music, so to speak.
"Automatism de la dernière heure" is another ambient-oriented composition enriched by rhythmic miniatures, which is a nice ending to a beautiful album of skillfully created sober and heartfelt music.
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Mark Hamn's Previous Releases
2004 -- Released by Sinewaves -
Croissants Fourre's Creme Chocolat by Francesco Giannico (Mark Hamn) is an evocative work,
sometimes melanhonic. Sound atmospheres full of reverbs, echoes and digital or analogical dust,
merge with concrete sounds of everyday life. It's a meditated and meditative work; in its ambiental
textures sound extracts bring back to our reality and then ferry back to the abstract shores.
to order your copy contact me at mark_hamn@yahoo.it
2005 - - Released by Sinewaves -
Prefixes Active and inspired mood for Francesco Giannico, aka Mark Hamn, who publishes the
second release for this net label. Eight little works, of a deep and solid style, re-echo ''Croissants
Fourres Creme Chocolat'' atmospheres dandle us with wadded and romathic sounds.
to order your copy contact me at mark_hamn@yahoo.it
2006 -- Released by Dharmasound -
Function Buttons -The six-track album on Dharmasound is something like a cineastic journey which
pushes the boundaries of the digital instrument by incorporating smooth melodies and gentle textures
even further. mark's guitar and piano is constantly present within his interrupted structures, making
this album more accessible, yet without any lack of textural innovations. a piece of music which is
highly recommended to anyone interested in discovering his work as much as it is a must have for
those already in tune with his macromusic.
to order your copy contact me at mark_hamn@yahoo.it
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"La città Fabbrica " è Taranto ed il progetto prevede una mostra/installazione di stampe dell'Ilva , il noto complesso industriale , lavorate graficamente con tecnica digitale e "rubate" , per così dire , dal noto software di visualizzazione satellitare google earth . Le stesse imagini sono a loro volta state inserite in un software freeware capace di convertirle in campioni sonori indefiniti che andranno a costituire il tappeto sonoro di un brano elettronico più complesso che fa da colonna sonora alla visione delle opere ed insieme ad esse costituisce un ideale rapporto sinestetico .
Un misto di tecniche e ambiti di riferimento che va dalla net-art , riproposta in termini fisici e collocata in termini spaziali , all'arte visuale , al soundesign .
L'intento di "The Factory City" è chiaramente quello di porre l'accento ulteriormente sulla delicata questione dell'industrializzazione pesante e sugli enormi sconvolgimenti sociali ed ambientali che essa può provocare ma anche sugli incredibili struggimenti e stimoli che questa "peste" riesce nonostante tutto ad instillare negli animi di chi tenta una lettura acritica del contesto , una lettura artistica appunto .
La mostra/installazione sarà visibile presso la libreria Ergot dal 27 all'11 giugno 2008
per info : info@ergot.it
349/5012612
TRACKLIST
1. IntrooVoodoo mp3 download - Hue
2.Voodoo (alternative mix) - OvO
3. Remix Six - Buben
4. Vooodooo - Harshcore
5. 114 Voodoos - Sparkle in Grey
6. LombrikoVoodoo mp3 download - Larsen Lombriki
7. A Day for Reflection - Mark Hamn
8. IchiOvO - Amy Denio
9. Luminous Mix mp3 download - Luminous
10. E.S.P. Reconstruction - Andrea Marutti
VIDEO. Whalesland/Voodoo Video - Invernomuto
(ITA)[muep001] Mark Hamn - To the naked eye
