Alessandro Bosetti - Royals

Three new compositions from Alessandro Bosetti carrying the mark
of his unique style and techniques. Somewhere in between musical
compositions, songs, literary essays, poems or unreligious mantras.
They lie in between genres without embracing any of them. Closer
references and influences as Robert Ashley, Rene Lussier, Peter
Ablinger, Ornette Coleman (or even the asymmetrical rhythms of
Steve Coleman and Henry Threadgill) are still too far away to become
handy in describing this music.
He translates intonations of speech into complex and seemingly
orchestral scores where meaning, tone and noise are melted into
each other. Several variations of techniques known as shadowing or
convolution were used in the making of it. Sometimes digital devices
were used, some other times analogue - almost hand made -
techniques. Bosetti refers to Arcimboldo's paintings from the XVI
century as a inspiration to his craft naming it "examples of hand made
convolution and shadowing". He has been pouring words into notes.
Notes into noise and then again noise into meaning. He has been
repeating, meditating, hallucinating.
In those recordings Bosetti is also heard on several instruments as
harpsichord, piano and guitar besides his main one, the soprano
saxophone.
The core of "Gloriously Repeating" is a sinuous and recurring text
and melody - generated from a short fragment from W.G. Sebald
poem "After Nature" - exploring the implications of repeating while
making repetition its main ingredient and embedded into an extended
text sound form.
"Life Expectations" is constructed around the intricate emotional,
rhythmic and melodic counterpoints of a casual conversation. Where
about “Royals”:
the sensitive interaction between voices becomes the matter of
this composition.
Third and last piece, Dead Man is a surreal short composition
whose text implies a ready made pseudo-zen philosophy of
resurrection derived from quotes of Iron Maiden's song lyrics.
Closely related to the music of Bosetti's ensemble Trophies with
Kenta Nagai and Tony Buck, soon to be released on Monotype,
Royals is the next step in the carving of a very personal musical
language.

Alessandro Bosetti is a sound artist, composer and performer
currently based in Berlin. He's main focus is in the fringe area
between spoken language and music. He created a series of
highly compelling sound works where relational aesthetics
meets innovative composition. Since 2000 he has been a key Ars
Acustica figure, and created a vast body of work of hybrid, award
winning, text-sound and radio compositions for the main Radio
and Electro Acoustic Music studios in Europe. Among them,
pieces like Il Fiore della Bocca (Rossbin/DLR 2005), a work on the
vocality of the mentally and physically impaired and African
Feedback, a collaborative scrutiny on experimental music in West
Africa (Errant Bodies press, 2004) have received critical acclaim
and are considered classic contributions to the genre. Field
research and interviews often build the basis for his abstract
compositions along with electro-acoustic and acoustic collages,
relational strategies, trained and untrained instrumental
practices, vocal explorations and digital manipulations.
Alessandro Bosetti is an emotional performer that has
consistently toured in Europe, Asia and the United States. He's
been presenting solo sets for voice and electronics blurring the
line between categories such as electro acoustic composition,
text-sound pieces, and performance. Most recently he's been
involved in exploring repetitive speech-loop forms as a solo artist
and with his ensemble Trophies with fretless guitarist Kenta
Nagai and drummers Tony Buck and Ches Smith. Trophies, with
two upcoming cd releases and a busy touring schedule has
imposed itself as one of the most innovative and genre defying
combos of the last years.

Blow Up magazine has called Bosetti „One of the most anomalous
and fascinating figures in the contemporary scene”, Dusted
Magazine „rewarding, unique and surprisingly responsive
encounter.” For The Wire „Bosetti's work has undjudgemental
embrace, complex transvaluations and challenges our
liberalism.” Bosetti's most recent CD Zwolfzungen has been
listed as one of The Wire's best 15 outer limits cd's of 2010

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