BI NOSTALGIA & FIORI CARONES ALBERTO - LE STATUE D'ACQUA released on October 3, 2022

 BI NOSTALGIA & FIORI CARONES ALBERTO

LE STATUE D'ACQUA 

released on October 3, 2022 (CD/Digital) 

CD in 6-panel digisleeve, ltd. 200 copies            
                      
BI NOSTALGIA & FIORI CARONES ALBERTO - LE STATUE D'ACQUA released on October 3, 2022

BI NOSTALGIA, aka Luca Rigato, along with with David E.H. formed the nucleus of ENDLESS NOSTALGIA, a cult band of the Italian electronic post-punk scene, active between 1982 and 1992.

Since 1985, BI NOSTALGIA also began tracing a solo path, alternating various projects with songs and pure instrumental works, exclusively released on cassette.

Between 2016 and 2018, the cassette recordings were reissued by Silentes/re-TLOTG, accompanied by the original graphics and bonus tracks. The latest album released in 2019 (available on CD) is "The King in Yellow," inspired by Richard Chambers' short stories.

While working on one of his releases, exactly during the recording of the cassette "ART is NOT Much" (TLOTG), BI NOSTALGIA asked FIORI CARONES ALBERTO a contribution for this four-handed collaboration. In 1988 (...it seems like prehistory but that's how it was...), the only way to share a collaboration without meeting in person was to "physically send" a cassette by mail.

Alberto recorded and mailed to Luca a short piano piece which, once completed, was transferref onto a c12 Endless TDK Tape cassette. Using another similar cassette, BI NOSTALGIA recorded a second keyboard part with the addition of two loops. To finish the work he played the two cassettes in sync, finally mixing them on tape. He recorded one version for "ART is NOT Much," later allocating a second version as a bonus track on the "Cathedrals EP" cassette.

Today, with the aim of reviving the spirit of long-distance collaborations and with the help and support of Stefano Gentile, two artists selected by Luca, DEISON and FABIO ORSI, have been involved to reinterpret the original work with their sensitivity, adapting it to the sounds of the new millennium. In addition to the remastering of the two 1988 versions, BI NOSTALGIA conceived a deconstruction of the piece, linking some fragments in loops, creating an original adaptation.

The title of the piece has been freely inspired by Fleur Jaeggy's novel "The Water Statues" [Adelphi, 1980].

Tracklist:
Le Statue d'Acqua (Original version 1988 - remastered 2022)
Le Statue d'Acqua (Reworked by Fabio Orsi)
Le Statue d'Acqua (Reworked by Deison)
Le Statue d'Acqua (Deconstruced Ghostly version 2022)
Le Statue d'Acqua (Remixed 2nd version 1988 - remastered 2022)

Bi Nostalgia - Exemplum Rhythmicus (recensione BLOW UP Magazine, Novembre 2020)

 recensione BLOW UP Magazine, Novembre 2020

di Vittore Baroni

 

 

Bi Nostalgia - EXEMPLUM RHYTHMICUS [remastered 2020] out now, vinyl/& digital

 

https://lightintheattic.net/releases/7019-exemplum-rhythmicus
https://binostalgia.bandcamp.com/album/exemplum-rhythmicus

Exemplum Rhythmicus è la nuova ristampa di BI NOSTALGIA uscita oggi (originariamente pubblicato con il
nome dell'artista Luca Rigato con la Tape Label veronese
Diagrapho).
A lungo ambito e cercato dai collezionisti, è
tra i manufatti più strani e resistenti
della straordinaria scena musicale avant-garde italiana del
Anni '80. Un emblema della diversità sonora resa
attraverso il suono elettronico, distillando un
numero multiplo di tradizioni e citazioni.
Mentre molte delle avanguardie italiane di musica sperimentale hanno iniziato all'interno degli
spettri della musica popolare, che si stavano lentamente diffondendo
sempre più esplicitamente ambiziosi e stimolanti,
con il passare degli anni, BI NOSTALGIA rappresentava un
cambiamento nella marea direzionale.
Exemplum Rhythmicus faceva parte di un movimento
verso l'incorporazione di forme popolari all'interno
della musica d'avanguardia che ha attraversato il mondo
durante gli anni '80.
Tanto impegnativo e complesso quanto seducente e
invitante, Exemplum Rhythmicus tesse un mondo
senza confine, di collisione e armonia. Una visione
di possibili futuri resi nel suo presente. Un
regno melodico quasi interamente costruito
l'uso del sintetizzatore, con sottili interventi di
ritmo elettronico, pianoforte e strumenti a percussione.
Exemplum collega i territori metronomici
esplorato dai minimalisti americani e dalle esperte
armoniche coltivate di percussioni balinesi, con
lo spirito avventuroso delle avanguardie.
Disponibile per la prima volta in vinile e prodotto in
collaborazione con Luca Rigato per chOOn !!, label
specializzato in oscure, archivistiche e dimenticate
releases.
Masterizzato per il vinile e digitale da Josh Bonati con
una nuova cover dell'acclamato a designer a livello internazionale
Luke Bird e le note di copertina dell'artista.
Vendita e distribuzione di vinili da Light In The Attic.


Exemplum Rhythmicus is Bi Nostalgia’s minimal
wonder from 1990 (originally released under the
artist’s name Luca Rigato on the Veronese cassette
label Diagrapho).
Long coveted and hunted by collectors, it falls
among the strange and definition resistant artefacts
of Italy’s remarkable avant-garde music scene of the
1980s. An emblem of sonic diversity rendered
through electronic sound, distilling a daunting
number of traditions and ideas, while sculpting its
own world of creative singularity, standing apart
from the rest.
While a great many of Italy’s avant-garde and
experimental music practitioners began within the
spectrums of popular music, slowly pushing into
more explicitly ambitious and challenging realms as
the years wore on, Bi Nostalgia represented a
change in the directional tide.
Exemplum Rhythmicus was part of a movement
towards the incorporation of popular forms within
avant-garde music which swept across the globe
during the 1980’s.
As challenging and complex as it is seductive and
inviting, Exemplum Rhythmicus weaves a world
without boundary, of collision and harmony. A vision
of possible futures rendered in its present day. A
melodic realm almost entirely constructed through
the use of synthesizer, with subtle interventions of
electronic rhythm, piano and bells.
Exemplum bridges the metronomic territories
explored by American minimalists and the highly
cultivated harmonics of Balinese percussion, with
the adventurous spirit of the avant-garde.
Available for the first time on vinyl and produced in
cooperation with Luca Rigato for chOOn!!, a label
specialising in obscure, archival and forgotten
releases.
Mastered for vinyl and digital by Josh Bonati with
artwork by the internationally acclaimed book
designer Luke Bird and liner notes by the artist.
Vinyl sales and distribution by Light In The Attic.

Bi Nostalgia - EXEMPLUM RHYTHMICUS (out October 1,2020) [pre-order!!]

October 2, 2020 (physical & digi) 

Bi Nostalgia - EXEMPLUM RHYTHMICUS [remastered 2020] 

pre-orders: 

vinyl https://lightintheattic.net/releases/7019-exemplum-rhythmicus

digital https://binostalgia.bandcamp.com/album/exemplum-rhythmicus 

 

Mastered for vinyl and digital by Josh Bonati with
artwork by the internationally acclaimed book
designer Luke Bird and liner notes by the artist.
Vinyl sales and distribution by Light In The Attic.

[re-TLOTG 10] Bi Nostalgia - The Seeping Mouth (now on Bandcamp !)

[re-TLOTG 10] Bi Nostalgia - The Seeping Mouth Inspired by Yukio Mishima's novels. Recorded at the Room, 22nd November 1985 Mixed by Bi Nostalgia 5th February 1986 Originally includes a 20-page booklet with writings and notes. Artwork by Roberta "Chewed Pencil" Bordignoni. Remastered by Bi Nostalgia, April 2016 Artwork re-modeled by Giuseppe Verticchio

[re-TLOTG 12] Bi Nostalgia - Cathedrals EP (now on Bandcamp !)

 [re-TLOTG 12] Bi Nostalgia - Cathedrals EP

 

All songs written & produced by BI NOSTALGIA Recorded & Mixed at the Room, August 1986 Original Graphic design by Roberta "Chewed Pencil" Bordignoni Artwork re-modeled by Giuseppe Verticchio

BI NOSTALGIA - The last rays of Sunset (video from Falco Ranuli)

Un video di Falco Ranuli
per un brano tratto da "THE KING IN YELLOW"

un grande grazie a Falco, gloomer ad honorem!

LUKE X's AH NAHM Inc. - Zapping Melodies of the 21st Century (an instrumental introduction to the)

on Bandcamp

Written & Produced by LUKE X's AH NAHM
Recorded between February-October 1991 at The Room
Mixed by LUKE X's AH NAHM & Simone Mancini, September 1992

LUKE X        synthetizers, programming, samplers
BOB        samplers, additional programming
URIZEL        samplers, synthetizers, tapes

Original artwork by Jupiter Jones & Urizel

Remixed & Remastered by Bi Nostalgia, March/April 2016
Artwork re-modeled by Giuseppe Verticchio

BI NOSTALGIA - 01_01_2020 [free Bandcamp EP]

Happy new Year!
(available for 30 days)

BI NOSTALGIA - 01_01_2020 [free Bandcamp EP]

"THE KING IN YELLOW" recensioni

Recensione di Paolo Bertoni, in BLOW UP Dicembre 2019

Recensione di Michele Brigante Sanseverino

in INDIE FOR BUNNIES 

Recensione nel blog (consigliato) wordpress SO WHAT

ringrazio tutti delle belle parole dedicate a questo mio nuovo impegno sonoro

19.11.19 Bi Nostalgia - Box of Chocolates [a sampler 1982-2019] on Bandcamp

Bi Nostalgia - Box of Chocolates
[free sampler 1982-2019]

Released on Bandcamp, 19.11.19


01. Year of the child (pitch mix)
03. Distant wave
04. Spring, spring again
05. Heavenly
06. Sorrows over Limbo
07. Atmospheric 4
08. Game Over & Rain
09. The Inverse Soul II [edit]
10. Find Me
11. Il porto del silenzio
12. Seekers of the Truth
13. cloudy 1 (2019 rmx)
14. Ossidiana [edit]
15. Lumos II [edit]
16. 1-1-19 [A-Cross]
17. Resonance 13-10-19


selection from:
- Cathedrals EP
- Attention au Chien
- Lumos
- Architetture in paesaggi sonori
- Art is not Much
- UNO in Four parts
- Anthems for losers
- Dances of the Pessimism
- Philokalia
- It's Cloudy Today
and some previously unreleased tracks

Compiled & Mastered by BI NOSTALGIA, November 2019
Original Cover by Stefano Gentile

out Now! - BI NOSTALGIA - The King in Yellow [limited CD edition]

Mastered for CD release by BI NOSTALGIA

CD version have four bonus tracks available for the first time.
Limited edition 100 copies

https://tlotg.bandcamp.com/album/the-king-in-yellow

BI NOSTALGIA - The King in Yellow [21.10.2019 limited CD edition]

CD edition,  limited to 100 copies out on Bandcamp & st.an.da.
21.10.19
available on https://tlotg.bandcamp.com/
 

BI NOSTALGIA
The King in Yellow (CD edition 2019)
original cover by Stefano gentile

L'idea di una colonna sonora immaginaria per "Il Re in Giallo" era partita molti anni fa,
ai tempi dei primi nastri come Ah Nahm e degli Endless Nostalgia.
La raccolta di racconti di Robert W. Chambers è stata una delle mie letture preferite da sempre e la rileggo ogni tanto,
scoprendo sempre nuove sfumature.
Poi (come altre) l'idea è rimasta lì, in attesa di sedimentare ulteriormente.

Grazie al lavoro di ristampe curate da Stefano Gentile (per RE-TLOTG via Silentes, che ringrazio) dei nastri originali della League of the Gloomers,
ho seriamente preso in considerazione di riprendere alcuni progetti che non speravo di iniziare e terminare.

Dapprima, la ri-stampa privata di "UNO in Four Parts" in 4CDs (ultimo lavoro a nome BI NOSTALGIA, datato anno domini 2006),
con materiale che avevo registrato a cavallo tra il 2005 e il 2006, frutto di lunghe improvvisazioni e sperimentazioni dilatate.
Successivamente, è arrivato anche lo stimolo per registrare finalmente "King in Yellow", riprendere il filo con la musica e di dedicare un pò di tempo
alla creazione di nuove tessiture sonore dopo molti anni.
Da qualche tempo ho ripreso seriamente a pensare/progettare un nuovo disco di canzoni, diverso da quanto avevo fatto in passato.

Questo lavoro chiude idealmente una trilogia di musiche accompagnatrici alla lettura, nate con i romanzi di Yukio Mishima (The Seeping Mouth, 1985) e
con i pensieri solitari dei padri del deserto (Philiokalia, 1985-86).
Anche per questo, "King in Yellow" racchiude in sè passato e presente, mistero e fantasia.

Se in "The Seeping Mouth" suonavo e improvvisavo al ritmo del mio respiro (era stata registrata in una sola giornata) e
in "Philiokalia" ho scoperto le prime "pause" e silenzi musicali, leggendo i testi dei padri del deserto,
"King in Yellow" si muove tra paesaggi pre-autunnali e sussurri nell'ora del tramonto.

Registrato in parte a Malosco (provincia di Trento) dove i sentieri dei boschi hanno pienamente ispirato
passeggiate e idee, in piena rilettura estiva del "Re in Giallo", gran parte del materiale sonoro è stato abbozzato in montagna.
Per poi terminarne registrazioni e missaggi al Room Studio a fine estate.


tracks :

Intro [Walk in Carcosa I] (0:17)
The King in Yellow (2:54)
The Street of Four Winds (2:27)
Golden tints of autumn foliage (4:24)
Deep, calm feeling of relief (3:20)
Seven Men in White Masks (4:03)
Interlude [Walk in Carcosa II] (0:57)
Into the lake of Hali (4:14)
The Demoiselle d'Ys (3:01)
The last rays of Sunset (4:30)
It's a bad place for a stranger (2:40)
Yellow Sign in Lost Carcosa (3:22)
Cassilda (5:06)

recorded in malosco & asparetto, july-august 2018
mixed at the room, october 2018
produced by BI NOSTALGIA
original cover by Stefano gentile


nota 13 Ottobre 2019:
Congiunzioni astrali.
Tra pochi giorni uscirà il mio primo disco di materiale inedito dopo 25 anni e la Sergio Bonelli Editore esce con un albo della serie Dampyr con lo stesso titolo e ispirato allo stesso libro.
Fantastico! Welcome to Carcosa!

BI NOSTALGIA - UNO in Four Parts [a condensed version] (2019)

OUT NOW on TLOTG Bandcamp

BI NOSTALGIA presents "UNO IN FOUR PARTS"
[a condensed version]
(recorded between 2004-2006)

Before starting again it is important to take a step back, to start from where you left off
(Prima di ricominciare è importante fare un passo indietro, per ripartire da dove si era rimasti)

01. The Inverse Soul (7:27)
02. Analogic Microtunes 2.63 (4:13)
03. Mystic Study for Blue Nothing (2:09)
04. Dialogue with Reclining Plan (4:25)
05. Inverse Beginning of Desire (6:57)
06. Cooperative Sonata (3:36)
07. Architectonic Idealism (2:54)
08. Self-Portrait with Remixed Exclusion (4:05)
09. Chromatic Lines (3:32)
10. Significance of Childhood (& Water) (5:40)
11. The Inverse Soul II (5:27) *

recorded at the Room, between 2004-2006 except * recorded 2018
remastered at the room, winter into spring 2018
a condensed version, mixed autumn into winter 2018-2019

bi nostalgia     synthetizers, treatments, programming

special guests:
bob                  tapes, treated sampled piano
urizel               tapes, effects

special edition based on the recordings of:
BI NOSTALGIA presents "UNO IN FOUR PARTS"
[4CDs box set, recorded between 2004-2006]
stricly limited handmade edition, 23 copies

BI NOSTALGIA - UNO in Four Parts [sold out]

BI NOSTALGIA - Uno in Four Parts [LAST Three Free Copies]

FREE Last three copies contest !
UNO IN FOUR PARTS by BI NOSTALGIA
contact The League of the Gloomers with your email
for your free copy!

06.06.2018 - BI NOSTALGIA presents "UNO IN FOUR PARTS"

Before starting again it is important to take a step back, to start from where you left off
(Prima di ricominciare è importante fare un passo indietro, per ripartire da dove si era rimasti)

(4CDs set, recorded between 2004-2006)
remastered 2018, stricly limited handmade edition

Il contrario di musica utile, qui siamo all'inutilità dell'armonia, pura tappezzeria all'ora del The.
Modulare, modale, maniacale: Liquida, ma fluida. Dislessicamente melodica.
Una sintesi Cosmico claustrofobica, pioggia leggera siderale, allietata solo da un raggio di sole finale.

Un camion di ghiaia scaricata su strada sterrata, al rallentatore.

The opposite of useful music, here we are useless in harmony, pure tapestry at the time of tea.
Modular, modal, maniacal: Liquid, but fluid. Dyslexically melodic.
A claustrophobic Cosmic synthesis, light sidereal rain, enlivened only by a final ray of sunshine.
A gravel truck unloaded on gravel road, in slow motion.

CD out now = THEE THREE RINGS - Sect.One: A Release of Power

[re-TLOTG 04]
THEE THREE RINGS - Sect.One: A Release of Power

double CD limited reissue, 60 copies only

 

 

 

"Imaginary folk music for ritual's ambients"

Tapes, records, percussions, instruments, treatments
Re-created and performed by:
BI NOSTALGIA - BOB - URIZEL

Mixed by Bi Nostalgia & Urizel at the Room, August 1985

Remastered by Bi Nostalgia, March 2016
Artwork re-modeled by Giuseppe Verticchio

 

For contacts & order - info on www.silentes.it

store.silentes.it/store.htm

email: info@silentes.it

 

out now = BI NOSTALGIA - Anthems for Losers

[re-TLOTG 02] 
BI NOSTALGIA - Anthems for Losers

CD limited reissue, 60 copies only

Recorded at the Room, May 1984

Recorded & Mixed at the Room, June 1984
Original Cover by Massimo Giacon

Remastered by Bi Nostalgia, April 2016
Artwork re-modeled by Giuseppe Verticchio

For contacts & pre-order - info on www.silentes.it

store.silentes.it/store.htm

email: info@silentes.it

01. Destiny of Civilian    04:41
02. Destiny of Civilian (outroscape)    00:17
03. A Silent Day    02:36
04. Civilisation    03:16
05. Horror Colour    02:12
06. Theatres & Fears    03:18
07. New Girls-Neutron    00:50
08. Yukio Mishima's Waltz    01:29
09. Your Casual Way    03:31
10. Tomorrow Never Knows (TNK)    03:00
11. Disease    03:34
12. The Unknown Shadow    01:27
13. Boys called Me    01:44
14. Tell Me that you love me    04:02
15. Anthem for a Loser    00:46
16. Gymnopédie (Satie's Adaption)    02:26
17. Land    02:44
18. Find Me    03:17
19. Somewhere    02:05
20. I Linger with my finger Jingle    00:19
21. I Linger with my finger Jingle (and Write a letter)    00:24
22. Remember Always    04:55
23. Sense of Life    02:55
24. Epilogue    06:07

bonus tracks:
25. M.M. Biosolution For Today Lament I    *    01:27
26. M.M. Biosolution For Today Lament II *    03:17
27. M.M. Biosolution For Today Lament III *    03:26
28. Horror Colour (EN's remix) (bonus track)    02:18

* M.M. Biosolution For Today Lament
(taken from "V/A - Trax Tooth & Nail" tape k7, 1984)

 

out now = BI NOSTALGIA - Cathedrals EP 12"

BI NOSTALGIA - Cathedrals EP

ultra limited 12" vinyl - Handmade cover with original photo and two forex 12"

23 copies only - signed by Bi Nostalgia

01. Cathedrals    04:16
02. Years of the Child    02:51

03. Twist me inside    03:27
04. Each one drawn (the definitive remix)*    03:54

All songs written & produced by BI NOSTALGIA
Recorded & Mixed at the Room, August 1986
excerpt
*  Recorded at the Room, 22.11.1985

BI NOSTALGIA
vocals, dx7, electric & acoustic guitars,
accordion, tapes, loops, treatments
NEMESI
drum kit, programming on 01-02-03
URIZEL (Ah Nahm's courtesy)
tapes on "Cathedrals"

Remastered by Bi Nostalgia, February 2016
Artwork re-modeled by Giuseppe Verticchio

Per contatti e prenotazioni

info & pre-orders on www.silentes.it

store.silentes.it/store.htm

email: info@silentes.it