"La Notte" by Flavio Zanuttini is a work that refers to the relationship between the primordial sensoriality and vision of the Underworld. It's the announcement of the viking night, the twilight of men and gods that serves as a prelude to Ragnarok. It's the lonely voyage of the defeated hero that sings the epic deeds of a impossible dialectic between human and superhuman. In a certain sense the solipsistic journey of Odysseus/Flavio is that of the centripetal acoustic involution that addresses the intimate of a psichic geography. A backwards journey that begins from Pillars of Hercules. This is evident and blatant in the contrast between darkness and light for example in the relationship between track 1, where a sound daemon recalls the experiments by Phil Minton, and track 4 by the name “Cantabile”. A CD that evokes disconcerting atmospheres and that marks the milestone of a instrumental and project related maturity in the friulian player. In “Scelsi”, Zanuttini gives back the vibration of the note to the kingdom of Ogdoade, to the reality that doesn't “become”, to the logical state of things that is what music should be before it becomes Muse.
I would define this work as "Prolegomena for an initiatory listening".
Francesco Cusa (translated by Filippo Ieraci)
“Notte” di Flavio Zanuttini è un’opera che rimanda al rapporto primordiale tra sensorialità e squarcio visionario sull’Oltremondo. E’ l’annuncio della notte vichinga, del crepuscolo di uomini e déi che fa da preludio al Ragnarok. E’ il viaggio solitario dell’eroe sconfitto che canta le epiche gesta di una dialettica impossibile tra umano e sovrumano. In un certo senso, il viaggio solipsistico di Odisseo/Flavio è quello dell’involuzione sonora centripeta che si rivolge all’intimo di una geografia psichica. Un viaggio a ritroso che prende l’abbrivio dalle rovine delle Colonne d’Ercole. Ciò è evidente nel contrasto tra Tenebre e Luce, addirittura palese, ad es., nella relazione tra la traccia 1, ove un demone sonoro rievoca le sperimentazioni d’un Phil Minton, e la traccia siderale numero 4, ovvero quella che porta il nome di “Cantabile”. Un cd che evoca atmosfere sconcertanti e che segna il passo di una maturità progettuale e strumentale da parte del trombettista friulano. In “Scelsi”, Zanuttini restituisce la vibrazione della nota al regno dell’Ogdoade, alla realtà che non “diviene”, alla muta logica delle cose che è ciò che la musica dovrebbe essere prima di diventar Musa. Definirei questo lavoro “Prolegomeni per un ascolto iniziatico”.
Francesco Cusa
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released March 14, 2018
released March 14, 2018
Recorded in the second half of Novembre 2017 at Ecate Studios, Udine (Italy)
Mix and master by Flavio Zanuttini, coproduced by Creative Sources Recordings and Umland Records
flaviozanuttini.com
Artwork by Carlos Santos
Thanks to: Silvia and Antonio, Giovanni Maier, Francesco Cusa, Giulio Stermieri, Florian Walter, Simon Camatta.
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