Gamers In Exile - Mondomultitempo

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Mondomultitempo

People who have heard the record and are much more in the know than we are, said it reminded them of Ghostbox, which we didn't know. But now that we do we can see why. However we come from and are going to a completely different direction. There's no intent of recovering a lost repertoire or nostalgia in our compositions, far from it. Perhaps because we have lived so long so far away from our growing grounds - Italy- we have unconsciously evoked melodies that stems from our folklore, in an attempt to claim some lost cultural identity. But fittingly the italian, Farfisa organ we used on the recordings was bought in a charity shop, in South London. That's to say that there was no plan, everything happened and constructed itself by chance. We just wanted to tell new stories, no arching back to an old mythology. The only underlining concept that guided us through the creation of this record was to expand our research in multitemporal music, a word coined by us to describe music were more than one bpm lives at the same time. A way of writing that we have seen so far adopted so extensively only by Conlon Nancarrow. And an area were we see a lot of discoveries to be made still.

Gamers in Exile

A chance meeting in a cupboard of two italians living in London.
Gamers In Exile released music mainly through their own label
Unbearable Recordings. Lately they've been involved more heavily in films with the soundtracks of seminal documentary Biutiful Cauntri - a film on illegal waste disposal in Italy - and Aelita, the russian masterpiece from 1924 reworked for Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Roma. They also answer to the names of Guido Zen and Valerio C. Faggioni.

Tracklisting:

1. zompo 02:51:16
2. volta e rivolta 03:33:60
3. mistero pagano 03:38:42
4. i want to-day 03:00:03
5. manieri occulti 04:28:16
6. Il ballo dell'uragano 06:24:36
7. mistero errante 03:40:48
8. flowers 03:12:49
9. organi preistorici 05:04:24

5...according to Medonte.

You say "mistero pagano' or 'manieri occulti' and you think of an obscure soundscape, northern mists and unsavioury fertility rituals.
Then you say 'mistero errante' or 'organi preistorici' and you already hearing echoes of an inscrutable psichedelia.
Yes but there's a lot of playfulness and craftmanship in this impressive record from roman duo Gamers in Exile: early music and 8bit games sound live here together, a similar approach - with completely different outcome - to Super Madrigal Brothers. An alternative universe populated by ultra-modern architecture and ancient beasts, which could slap you in the face or offer you a flower. As side reference we quote Belbury Poly, folk and some more intimate 70s progressive. For anyone wanting to find something new in electronica and also for whoever wishes to time travel without worring about what the dashboard says. (8/10)

Francesco Tenaglia

(Blow Up. 09/210)

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