lunedì 9 febbraio 2015

Niton EPK




NITON REVIEWS



Tiresias  
(Pulver and Asche 2015)


Exceptionnel ! !   19/20
http://www.xsilence.net/

Album of the Year 2015
http://kulturterrorismus.de/

This is an impressive experimental work featuring multiple sounds and noises. 
It all sounds like a sonic puzzle made of endless little pieces, which in the end create a compact 
sonic work.
http://www.side-line.com/

Niton's music is engaging experimental music at its best...It really shows that it took fifteen 
months of work to compose and record the album. Each piece is well thought outand develop 
in a natural way. 
What we have here is a rich in tones and atmosphere album, easy to listen to and 
superbly produced.
http://www.chaindlk.com/

Album foriero di sorprese e soddisfazioni ad ogni passaggio. 7/10 
Sentire Ascoltare

Tiresias mi sembra essere fascinosamente a fuoco e dotato di solide spalle.
Gran Disco
Radiogwen.ch

Un disque hybride et vivifiant, qui pose plus de questions qu'il ne donne de réponses 
malgré son obsession à demeurer dans le concret. 
Écoute obligatoire.
8/10

http://www.goutemesdisques.com/
What emerges here is a bravura sequence of diverse soundscapes which almost cry out for some 
kind of visual or staged accompaniment of suitably intense form to match the music’s powerful 
presence. Until the day that transpires, listeners will have to remain content with the 
vibrant, synaesthetically effective images that Niton so ably paint with sound onTiresias, 
reaching out towards the depiction of the all-encompassing sublime and the portentously ominous 
as they do so.
http://freq.org.uk/

Sembra di assistere a una colonna sonora di un film che racconta di mondi lontani e inesplorati, 
dove il concetto di tempo si perde nelle intricate maglie che il trio tesse con estrema attenzione, 
dando sempre la sensazione di avere a disposizione soluzioni melodiche diverse e spiazzanti.
http://strategieoblique.blogspot.it/

Tiresias semble se mouvoir par lui même, poussé par un souffle intrinsèque qui lui 
sert de nourriture, auto-gestion de spectres microscopiques aux effets macroscopiques, 
ùl’infiniment petit tutoyant l’immensément grand, grattant à la porte des cieux pour y pénétrer 
sans bruit et fracas mais avec l’assurance de l’inusité. Magnétique.
http://silenceandsound.me/


Niton
(Pulver And Asche 2013)

Also of exceptional use (and of considerable beauty) is the Live In Concert self-titled debut by Italian 
ensemble Niton ... A highly beautiful experience
Julian Cope - http://www.headheritage.co.uk/ 

It's a surprise every second what is going to happen and makes it to the end result remains chilling . Ultra Dynamic music that goes beyond each category . Delicious !
www.subjectivisten.nl/caleidoscoop/  

All in all a wonderful record , which is released by the Swiss label Pulver und Asche . 
often find live recordings of improvisation sets boring , because the dynamics of the musicians often 
not well come into its own , but this album is a pleasant exception to the rule .
http://www.ravage-webzine.nl/

For this project the quality of the music and recording is high.
http://www.vitalweekly.net

Tre artisti eccelsi, un progetto validissimo con enormi potenzialità, un’idea sostanziale assolutamente affascinante ed entusiasmante e uno spettacolo che non mi vorrei perdere per nessun motivo al mondo
www.rockambula.com/

ad un secondo ascolto ripaga ... consentendo all’ascoltatore di modificare la sua posizione percettiva, in una dimensione sempre nuova e attiva
http://www.indie-eye.it 

il lavoro unisce linguaggi diversi in una peculiare polilalia sperimentale.
Rockerilla 

collocandosi su un fronte piuttosto scoperto di forza comunicativa, questi attori di sperimentazione non 
sfigurano anzi si pongono in posizione alquanto avanzata nello stato dell'arte dell'Elettronica non di consumo 
e di prima linea.
Tre concezioni antitetiche ma complementari della generazione sonora unite in un flusso dai connotati 
mutevoli: sperimentazione, ambient, noise, industrial, progressive, electronica sono solo alcuni dei generi 
che in qualche modo emergono dallo scorrere di “Niton”, viaggio siderale e visionario lungo poco meno di quaranta minuti suono sorprendente ed avvolgente
http://www.jazzconvention.net

Quella di “Niton” è musica da non giudicare ma da visualizzare e accogliere come viene, spontaneamente. Fluendoci assieme.  
http://ondarock.it

Tempo e spazio che si incontrano, che si fondono in un’unica identità suprema ed indivisibile
http://www.impattosonoro.it 


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About the Musicians




Luca Xelius Martegani live electronics, sound direction  
is a sound designer, composer of electro-acoustic music and sound technician. He has collaborated with numerous contemporary artists, designed and constructed analog devices for sound synthesis and treatment and offers his work both in-studio and out.
It all started at sixteen when he received an honourable mention arriving 4th at the 4th International Electroacoustic Music Competition “Luigi Russolo”. With Pietro Pirelli he then investigated rock sounds through the works of  the sculptors Pinuccio Sciola and Giancarlo Sangregorio for which he directed the sound in different exhibitive performances.
He collaborated with authors and producers from the commercial electronic dance scene of the 80s and 90s (Mephisto, Don Carlos, Elgar) and the contemporary pop scene (The van Houten, Andy from Blue Vertigo, Krisma, Garbo, Helalyn Flowers, Tibe). He also  gave life to the electro-pop duo Xelius Project: its first recording brought the signature of Henning Schmitz (Kraftwerk) for its mastering.

El Toxyque strings, wind instruments, springs, objects, electronics 
stands for Enrico Mangione (Mr. Henry, Lucha Libre, Downlouders) since, in 2005, he started exploring obscure sound possibilities through improvisation in extreme electronics with random objects and prepared, modified, self-constructed or simply mistreated traditional acoustic instruments.
The solitary exhibitions of El Toxyque are marked by a disturbing bond of theatricality, mystery and apparent nonsense (due to the use of a Mexican wrestler mask and to unorthodox instrument techniques) mixed with heavy doses of brutal sonic aggression.
Since 2012 he has collaborated with Xelius on the project of intuitive music performance “Drone Night” where the most bended sides of his music are smoothed in favour of environmental openings, psychedelic dilutions and mystical drones.

Zeno Gabaglio electric cello, electronics
 
holds a diploma in cello, a Master’s  in free improvisation and a degree in Philosophy (Lugano, Basel and Florence). He has dedicated himself to music in a great number of different aspects favouring the more authentic – but on the other hand – less expected forms. He has published two records (UNO, Pulver & Asche 2007, Gadamer, Altrisuoni 2009), created a dozen theatre and cinema soundtracks participating in concerts in Europe, Asia and America and collaborated with various people such as: Bugge Wesseltoft, Michel Godard, Villi Hermann, Frankie Hi NRG, Teho Teardo, Garbo, Francesca Lago, Paolo Saporiti, Vinko Globokar, Xabier Iriondo, Angelo Tonelli, Dj Pandaj and René Burri.