Ambient
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OUT AND ABOUT
Herion (E.Errante, E.Coniglio, E. Marzorati) - Hypnos 2010
ROCKERILLA 2010
[…] Se qualcuno si aspetta sonorità di derivazione prettamente ambient-elettronica è meglio si fermi sull'uscio lasciando la porta socchiusa perchè qui dentro si celebra il rito antico della musica classica che danza e si immerge dentro le nuove sperimentazioni e lo fa attraverso l'uso di un pianoforte, una viola, un'armonica, una chitarra e delle tastiere, tutti strumenti che abbinati all'uso delle macchine e del field recording vanno ad ascrivere questa release come una delle più belle produzioni modern/classic mai ascoltate ultimamente. Un'opera che trova ragione d'essere e fa esplodere tutta la sua forza descrittiva proprio attraverso il contrasto delle parti: da una parte Errante e Coniglio, manipolatori di suoni incastonati dentro un laptop e dall'altra la Marzorati e Mancuso con i loro struggenti strumenti di romantico fulgore. […]
Mirco Salvadori
Ambient
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OUT AND ABOUT
Herion (E.Errante, E.Coniglio, E. Marzorati) - Hypnos 2010
FURTHER NOISE 2010
Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi once claimed that a sound played for a long time "becomes so big that you start to hear many more harmonies, and it becomes bigger inside...[and] envelops you." And there are times during Out and About when Emanuele Errante, Enrico Coniglio, Elisa Marzorati and accomplices seem to be exploring their more celebrated compatriot's notion, albeit in a smaller scale setting. […] Marzorati's piano motifs, mixed with Coniglio's melodica, harmonica, and treated guitar, all commingle sonorously in Errante's settings, seen to good effect on the keynote "One Minute After the Sunset." The classical influence is never felt in any turgid or grandiose gestures, the music's movements graceful and lilting, shifting subtly between blithe and melancholy. "Risvegli" finds glistening strings and piano peregrinations in incantatory communion. In "Two Minutes to Sunrise" tension comes from an ebb-flow motion that builds coalescing as if to climax but remaining teetering teasingly on the edge of resolution. […]
Alan Lockett
Ambient
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OUT AND ABOUT
Herion (E.Errante, E.Coniglio, E. Marzorati) - Hypnos 2010
HYPNAGOGUE REVIEWS 2010
What we have in Herion's Out and About is a work that is ambient chamber music in every sense of the term: spatial, intimate, classically based. Strip away the subtle wash of electronics that Emanuele Errante and Enrico Coniglio whisper beneath piano from Elisa Marzorati […] It's part of the real beauty of Out and About-the way in which we're intermittently reminded, as the disc goes along, that the sounds aren't all circuit-born. It's a good reminder, since it's easy to lose sight of that as Herion quietly wrap you in smooth sound-ribbons. There's a lot to like here, and much of begins with Marzorati's piano work. Her playing is sweet, graceful and impeccable, whether it's thoughtfully wandering through Errante and Coniglio's misty landscapes ("One Minute Before the Sunrise"), holding a polite dialogue with a sighing harmonica ("Cab"), dropping like forgotten tears ("Lindos"), or giving itself over to electronic treatment to capture a sound-image ("The Hanging Glacier"). The disc closes with her playing alone on the appropriately titled "Solo," and it's a standout moment on an excellent disc. […]
Ambient
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OUT AND ABOUT
Herion (E.Errante, E.Coniglio, E. Marzorati) - Hypnos 2010
AMAZON (customer's review) 2010
For me, this is like "dreams came true" project, because it features Enrico Coniglio and Emanuele Errante who are resoponsible for some remarkable ambient solo albums released during the last few years, with some guest appearances of Elisa Marzorati, highly respected pianist. Now these three extremely talented musicians are teamed up in Herion project and landing on Hypnos. You can't go wrong with that, but I think this collaboration was as much exciting and challenging also for Hypnos as it marks new direction for this label thanks to Herion's ambient strongly influenced by classical music with the use of many acoustic instruments. Even if quite new territory to Hypnos, it fits more than perfectly to them. […] Absolutely splending mix of piano, viola, harmonica, melodica, rainstick with some synthesized sounds. […] Herion can be easily described after Suspended Memories as another "Ambient Supergroup" and Emanuele Errante, Enrico Coniglio and Elisa Marzorati are the rising stars of ambient genre and bringing some new fresh wind to it. A pure masterwork!!!
Richard Gürtler
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OUT AND ABOUT
Herion (E.Errante, E.Coniglio, E. Marzorati) – Hypnos 2010
TEXTURA 2010
[…] The trio members themselves function as a veritable mini-orchestra, with Marzorati's piano playing augmented by the guitars, strings, harmonica, synthesizers, melodica, field recordings, and laptop processing of her colleagues. What results is a richly detailed and rewarding collection that's often affectingly plangent in tone, not to mention stirring. Herion's electronically enhanced chamber music is artful without being precious and soulful to boot, and a quiet emotional sensitivity colours the album's forty-six minutes in a way that helps distinguish the recording from the competition. Marzorati plays in an impressionistic and restrained manner that's in keeping with the meditative character of the album's ten pieces, […] "Oxg," inaugurates the album splendidly, with the serenading wheeze of the melodica and harmonica punctuated by piano chords, synthetics, and the drone of the viola. Pairing its melancholy cry with Marzorati's gentle sprinkle and a rich backdrop of textures imbues "Lindos" with a pastoral beauty that elevates the album. A slightly darker tone pervades "Moske Orgulje" when an underlying metronomic rhythm, punctuated by the viola's interjections, urgently nudges the material forward. One final contrast surfaces when Marzorati's given the spotlight during the peaceful, album-closing "Solo." While there is a subtle ambient dimension to Out and About that's in keeping with Hypnos releases in general, Herion's music aligns itself more closely to a style one might call 'chamber electronic-classical.' Regardless of labels, the album is a distinguished collection of enchanting mood settings that again speaks highly for the strong reputation Hypnos has acquired throughout its history.
Ambient
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OUT AND ABOUT
Herion (E.Errante, E.Coniglio, E. Marzorati) - Hypnos 2010
SONIC IMMERSION 2010
[…] These versatile elements make the sonic outcome venture in more acoustic territory while remaining comfortable, highly moody and atmospheric. It's an introspective and rather melancholic affair though, as the instrumental music slowly progresses in a classical, minimal but also blissful manner. The sensitive undercurrents within the ambient compositions make it even more intimate, evocative and reflective. This is music for the silent hours deserving close listening. The beautiful art of ambient music already has many expressions, "Out and About" adds another dimension to it. Bert Strolenberg
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OUT AND ABOUT
Herion (E.Errante, E.Coniglio, E. Marzorati) - Hypnos 2010
PAUL VNUK's quote 2010
[…] ...in simple terms, I freaking love this cd. It is one of the few new ambient albums in the past 3 or 4 years to truly grab my attention and excite me. When I hear discs like this I start feeling like ambient/space/electronic music is actually vital again. OK so why? Well for me this disc combines 3 key elements that I find essential for me as both a musician and a music fan. […] … these are real players/musicians and as such this album has a language to it that would have been harder to achieve with programing, again another one of its unique points for me. […] I am not saying this is the greatest album of all time or anything like that, but man is this a breath of fresh air and nice new avenue for Hypnos and our genre in general. I know nothing about the musicians on this recording, but Nice Job guys!!!
Paul Vnuk
Ambient
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dyanMU
(E.Coniglio, E. Marzorati) - Psychonavigation Records 2008
WHITE LINE 2008
[…] This release comes out on Northern Ireland's Psychonavigation imprint. Taking a position somewhere between the ambient ramblings of Boards of Canada, with a little Biospshere, and FSOL added for good measure. This neat release is capably handled by one Enrico Coglio ably assisted by Elisa Marzorati on piano. Whilst this release didn't float my boat in terms of originality, it did what every ambient recording should do, and left me chilled, and suitably calmed..film music for the mind I would say, and none the worst for it. For those of you that are still looking for sonic sedation in the form of synthesised ambience..this will have your name on it. […]
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dyanMU
(E.Coniglio, E. Marzorati) - Psychonavigation Records 2008
THE VIBES 2008
[…] I fraseggi pianistici sembrano provenire da una dimensione lontana, irradiando la stessa tensione e lo stesso senso di temporaneo distacco all'ascoltatore, preso per le coclee e accompagnato nella fievole luce di un'alba surreale nel giardino di stimoli dell'avvolgente Birds Delight, in cui un drone subtonale si confonde con suoni sibillini dal movimento circolare di sequenze che si fanno via via più ipnagogiche su sporadici backings che ci ricordano per l'uso che se ne fa certe obnubilate sequenze degli eterei Boards Of Canada. Transitando per la leggiadria di Bell-ringer molto simile a certe cavalcate mentali tra le nuvole dei Nova Nova sospinte dalle corde di martelletti del pianoforte e per le suggestioni umbrifere della rarefatta Cableway, si giunge ad uno dei momenti in cui il predetto ago ritorna a propendere verso le macchine di Enrico: in skip to eXit, da cupe sinosoidi di basso emergono un suono sintetico acuto, messo a contrasto con i gravi rintocchi di note di piano delle prime ottave, prima di aprirsi e rinchiudersi in un interessanti gioco di scomparse e riapparizioni sul radar sonoro. […]
Vito Camarretta
Ambient
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dyanMU
(E.Coniglio, E. Marzorati) - Psychonavigation Records 2008
TOKAFI 2008
[…] Marzorati neither strives for an organic sound in her playing (lots of pedal) nor in her choice of instrument (most likely an ePiano), her elegant melodies on rhythmic opener “brushwork” are rather influenced by electronica than by the Vienese school, her disqueting clusters on “skip to eXit” and her harmonic language on “walking distance” by midnight Jazz and nervous breakdowns. […] Even in its more disturbing passages, the album remains contained, never fully releasing the tension and merely easing it slightly when Marzorati is allowed to gently stroke the keys. This may be, why dyanMU” is a work which demands to be appreciated through repeated listening, but which is not too heavy or burdensome to be consumed several times in a row. Quite obviously, however, it risks disappearing into your subconscious without the necessary dynamic thrust: We strongly recommend playing this loud!
Tobias Fischer
Ambient
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dyanMU
(E.Coniglio, E. Marzorati) - Psychonavigation Records 2008
BARCODE 2008
[…] The results inflict a variety of subtle emotions, but many of the tracks do tend to drag on a bit. In all honesty it’s the sole piano pieces, such as the lovely, Budd-like Foliage and wandering Bell-Ringer that light up the album most. I guess they would not be as effective if not cocooned by the drifting drones of much of the surrounding music. Therefore this is an album that needs to be listened to in its entirety to garner full satisfaction. […]
Ambient
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dyanMU
(E.Coniglio, E. Marzorati) - Psychonavigation Records 2008
GOTHRONIC 2008
Just about two years ago Enrico Coniglio and Elisa Marzorati started the "dyanMU" project. With instruments ranging from samplers, filters, computers and a piano they created a true masterpiece which can be mentioned in one breath with the works of someone like Biosphere or Fennesz. Heavy minimal ambient, on times with minimal technoid beats and patterns, in which the piano dictating the melodic parts in most compositions. If you compare this release to for example the collaboration between Alva Noto and Ryuchi Sakamoto, "dyanMU" is accessible to a way larger audience. On the one side this is because of the less incoherent way she plays piano, but it's definitly also because this release contains less weird and hurtful frequencies. But concerning the amosphere, both collaborations are quite close to each other. […]
Bauke
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dyanMU
(E.Coniglio, E. Marzorati) - Psychonavigation Records 2008
MORPHEUS MUSIC 2008
[…] Eerie passages of fractured drones and sustained metallic ringing swell ghost-like, indistinct whilst the gentle buoyant romance of Marzorati's ivory dances wistfully across the surface. Track one has a sparse digital beat that effortlessly carries the introduction into weightless, breezy motion - the remainder of the music is pretty much free of percussive rhythm. […] Yet the introduction of Elisa Marzorati's piano playing completely transforms the overall tenor of the collection - his soundscaping illuminated by her grace, her fingering haunted by his static and gloom. Add to this some drum programming from Rena Jones and a couple of well chosen samples including one from Robert Fripp and you have a truly stand out album.
Ambient
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dyanMU
(E.Coniglio, E. Marzorati) - Psychonavigation Records 2008
ARTISTS & BANDS
[…] un approccio musicale minimalista e confidenziale in cui il piano di Elisa Marzorati infonde elementi armonici e melodici più lineari e classici all'interno delle strutture elettroniche, ai samples ed ai loop sperimentali di Enrico Congilio. […] Brushwork rappresenta invece il culmine, il punto di risalto di questo connubbio elettronico-acustico, ottimo brano dal ritmo sincopato e robotico, quasi post-industriale, che si segnala come perfetto punto di incontro, complemento e completamento dei due artisti. […] Elisa Marzorati contribuisce in modo determinante regalando un tocco più classico, melodico ed acustico alla componente elettronica.
Ambient
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dyanMU
(E.Coniglio, E. Marzorati) - Psychonavigation Records 2008
TEXTURA
[…] Representative of the paired pieces, "Brushwork" accompanies dancing piano notes with a lightly galloping percussive rhythm and waves of high- and low-pitched synth tones. In "Mothlight," Coniglio's vibrant electronics take center stage with Marzorati providing peripheral enhancements. Ample spaces separate the piano chords in "Cableway," suggesting the huge expanse traversed by the cable car's trip, while the droning tones echo resonantly throughout the cavernous open space. Coniglio's haunted moodscape "Birds Delight" evokes mystery and unease as willowy tones and bass throbs seemingly drift through the corridors of a long-abandoned building. The focus shifts to Marzorati in the lovely "Foliage," which nurtures a tranquil and dreamy mood, and "Bell-Ringer," whose bright and vibrant piano melodies are in keeping with its title. […] Classically-trained, Mazorati's approach extends beyond a single style to embrace classical but also jazz-inflected improvisation, and Coniglio's contribution isn't primarily rhythm-oriented but instead rooted in atmospheric enhancement and sound design. […] Marzorati takes that idea and pushes it into the realm of free improvisation, resulting in the jazz-inflected "Walking Distance." Picture Mazorati playing in a conservatory practice room and open windows allowing Coniglio's myriad colourations to flood in and envelop the pianist's performing space and you'll have a fairly accurate impression of dyanMU s sound.
Classical music
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY – PRÉLUDES
Elisa Marzorati – Velut Luna 2006
Audio Clásica – Año XI n.133 – Abril 2008
Sonido: ****
Valoraciòn: ***
Elisa Marzorati es una joven pianista de brillante carrera académica y amplios horizontes interpretativos, que afronta con ésta su primera grabaciòn de repertorio.
Sin duda, afrontar un debut discogràfico con los Preludios debussyanos es ya un mérito a hacer constar, a la vez que un indicador relevante de la amplitud de perspectivas y solvencia técnica de la debutante. Compendio omnicomprensivo de recursos pianìsticos, los Preludios exigen al pianista una sensibilidad extraordinaria, una capacidad de introspecciòn fuera de lo comùn y, sobre todo, una prodigiosa flexibilidad interpretativa que permita afrontar la enorme diversidad de los dos ciclos. Marzorati posee una técnica incontestable y algunas de sus decisiones interpretativas (como la flexibilidad en el tempo) resultan francamente interesantes (escùchense a ese respecto las grabaciones del proprio compositor). [...]
Francisco Parralejo Masa
Classical music
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY – PRÉLUDES
Elisa Marzorati – Velut Luna 2006
www.ludomentis.it - 2007
[…] la giovane Elisa Marzorati riesce a rivelarci aspetti nuovi ed affascinanti finora, forse, non messi in luce. Il rigore e l'attenzione al testo scritto, uniti a due anni di intenso ed esclusivo studio di questa affascinante e misteriosa partitura, hanno consentito alla mente ed alle mani di Elisa di volare dentro e fra i tasti alla scoperta di un mondo cangiante e mai del tutto compreso, quale l'universo onirico del grande autore francese, a cavallo di due secoli inquieti come l''800 ed il '900. […]
Rock
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JOURNEY OF HOPE
Guido Marzorati & the Blugos – Velut Luna
"MUSIKBOX" DICEMBRE 2006
Guido Marzorati alla chitarra acustica e al microfono con la sua voce, al cui ascolto corrisponde magicamente il ricordo di un’altra voce, nel tono e nelle vibrazioni, quella di Springsteen, al pianoforte Elisa Marzorati (e qui permettetemi di dire che vale il detto latino “in nomen omen”), Iliano Vincenzi al basso e Andrea Scarpari alla batteria nella formazione dei Blugos. L’album di consacrazione per la veneta Velut Luna è Journey of Hope ed è una raccolta di jazz, ma non troppo, country, ma non troppo, folk e popolare, ma non negli eccessi. Tempi lenti e sommessi per il brano d’apertura che cede il suo titolo all’album. Parole e musica scritte interamente da Guido Marzorati, ma la band, che esegue gli ordini, non è da meno, non si nasconde dietro il protagonismo di Guido, anzi, con fertile riverenza, persegue gli obiettivi armonici del capitano. […]
Elisa Mauro
Rock
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JOURNEY OF HOPE
Guido Marzorati & the Blugos – Velut Luna
www.bielle.org NOVEMBRE 2006
IL "MILIONE" AMERICANO DI UN MARCO POLO ODIERNO
[…] Ma anche quando il rock’n’roll fa capolino tra un brano e l’altro, il “rumore” delle chitarre di Marzorati, del basso di Iliano Vincenzi e della batteria di Andrea Scarpari è comunque sempre levigato dal pianoforte della fenomenale Elisa Marzorati che spesso assurge al ruolo di protagonista.
“Journey Of Hope”, la title-track, narra del viaggio di un padre in un Paese straniero alla ricerca del benessere da offrire al proprio figlio. […] “Journey Of Hope” è un disco come non se ne sentivano da tempo, tutto giocato su un rock stradaiolo rivestito con melodie allo stesso tempo semplici e affascinanti. […]
Luca Vitali
Rock
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JOURNEY OF HOPE
Guido Marzorati & the Blugos – Velut Luna
RECENSIONE www.rootshighway.it OTTOBRE 2006
****
[…] L'impianto sonoro richiama atmosfere di cantautorato di gran classe anni'70, per l'uso continuo del piano, con una ritmica e una chitarra mai invadenti. Un profumo di California sembra sprigionarsi dalle casse, quando in ordine sparso, è Virtual Love, morbida ballata, a farsi apprezzare. Journey Of Hope in apertura ed Out Of My Skin, dai toni appena più decisi ma sempre controllati, con il pianoforte di Elisa che le segna e ci emoziona, sono altri due ottimi esempi delle capacità compositive di Guido, il quale dà un ulteriore sfoggio delle sue qualità ed i Blugos del loro essere sicuramente più di una qualsiasi backing band in Songs From The Next World, uno dei pezzi migliori, progressione di accordi assolutamente cantautorali, incorniciati da un piano sempre dietro la voce, che, se chiudiamo gli occhi, ci trasporta d'incanto al di là dell'oceano, dalle parti di Los Angeles, all'incirca trent'anni fa… […]
Gabriele Buvoli
Rock
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JOURNEY OF HOPE
Guido Marzorati & the Blugos – Velut Luna
RECENSIONE “BUSCADERO” LUGLIO 2006
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[…] The Blugos sono la brava Elisa Marzorati al piano, Iliano Vincenzi al basso e Andrea Scarpari alla batteria, poi ci sono i musicisti aggiunti ovvero Daniele Scala dei Morblus con l’Hammond, Filippo Bonini col violino e un trio di voci mentre Francesca Palazzi è l’art director e vale la pena nominarla visto la finezza e lo studio del booklet coi testi e le foto, un lavoro che non ha nulla da invidiare in termini visuali alle migliori produzioni anglosassoni, esplicativo di quello stile street-ballader che Marzorati vuole comunicare con la musica.
Si diceva delle ballate, Journey Of Hope, la toccante Song From The Next World, la coinvolgente Out Of My Skin con il piano di Elisa Marzorati in bella evidenza, la springsteeniana (non poteva essere diversamente visto il titolo) Come To A New Land sono tra le cose migliori del disco ma anche i brani più ritmati fanno la loro figura. A cominciare da Blooming Roots, dai sapori Little Feat di What Can I Do?, dalla incalzante Complainer’s Disease o da quelli bluesati con la slide e il solito splendido piano di Elisa Marzorati di Keep Beating, brani che però non perdono mai le buone maniere di un rocker “ riservato” che assomiglia più a Jackson Browne che agli eroi del Jersey Shore. […]
Mauro Zambellini
Classical music
Live
Der Landbote – Winterthur – 2.11.05
“Poetiche Klanggemälde”
Dichtung, Musik und Kunst des 19. Jahrhundert hat das neuste Museumskonzert gehaltvoll vereint.
[…] Der musikalische Teil der Matinee brachte ein Wiederhören mit César Francks beliebter Sonate für Violine und Klavier sowie die seltene Begegnung mit den Nachtgesängen op. 22 für Klavier von Hans Huber. Der 1852 im Solothurnischen geborene Pianist, Klavierlehrer und Komponist machte um die Jahrhundertwende vor allem als Erneuerer des Basler Musiklebens von sich reden. In den “Nachtgesängen” offenbart er sich als Liebhaber der Farben. Keine leise dahinträumenden Lieder sind das, sondern volltönende Klanggemälde, in denen ungeahnte Kräfte entfesselt werden. Dies bedeutete ein gutes Stück Arbeit für die Pianistin Elisa Marzorati, denn die irgendwo zwischen Chopin, Liszt und Tschaikowsky angesiedelten “Gesänge” sind nichts für ungeübte Nachtschwärmer.
Intensität und Distanz
Anerkannt schwierig ist, was Franck mit seiner Violinsonate seinen Pianisten-Kollegen aufbürdet. Elisa Marzorati schien angesichts dieser Herausforderung erst recht zur Höchstform aufzulaufen. Bravourös und ohne äusserlich sichtbare Zeichen der Anstrengung brachte sie diesen pianistischen Parforceritt hinter sich. Die Geigerin Yvonne Smeulers beeindruckte durch den voluminösen Klang ihrer Guadagnini, das satte Vibrato in den expressiven Passagen […]
Anja Bühnemann
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