It’s hard to believe that way back in January I wrote the words, “There’s so much news I have to cover in this post, I’m sweating already.” In this first quarter (list shout out!) of 2014, I really have changed as a human being by sticking to my new year’s resolution to stop sweating so much. I hardly even sweat at all these days! I’ve learned a whole lot this year, too, about life, love, and the new Valerio Tricoli double LP on PAN. Sure, as evidenced by my above-linked sweaty January post, I already knew some stuff about it, but now I know a whole lot more, and I can tell you about it and not have to shower immediately after. Neat!
So, as you may or may not recall, the album is called Miseri Lares, and it’s Tricoli’s first solo release since 2006’s Metaprogramming from Within the Eye of the Storm. He hasn’t been napping since then, of course, he’s just been out there making friends, e.g. on 2011’s collaboration with Thomas Ankersmit. Miseri Lares, however is something of a culmination of all the work Tricoli has done over the last several years. Composed in Berlin and Munich throughout 2011 and 2013, Tricoli presented an original version of the work at Paris festival l’Audible back in 2011, but since then, the pieces that make up Miseri Lares have shifted and grown into a “multilayered and heavily nuanced work which epitomizes the uncanny in the realm of sound.” What a quote, am I right?
Miseri Lares, which has been described as a “contemporary take on musique concrète,” is a heavily narrative-based work. Throughout the album, spoken text in both English and Italian pop up, with sources as varied as Dante, H.P. Lovecraft, Emil Cioran, and Tricoli’s own writings. You want to hear a track from the album? Check below for “Le Qoheleth ✚.” Or, perhaps a nearly-45-minute mix by Tricoli that has nothing to do with the album at hand but is nevertheless pretty neat? Click here. You want an update on my sweat situation? Dry as the desert.
Miseri Lares tracklisting:
01. La Distanza
02. Hic Labor Ille Domus et Inextricabilis Error
03. Error
04. In The Eye of The Cyclone
05. Das Schräg Haus
06. Le Qoheleth ✚
07. Miseri Lares
08. In Your Ruins Is My Shelter
• Valerio Tricoli: http://www.discogs.com/artist/237655-Valerio-Tricoli
• PAN: http://www.pan-act.com
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