pandelindio ~ spirits of valtellina

 pandelindio ~ spirits of valtellina (2017, Novitic Industries)

Spirits of Valtellina was recorded live at I’abbazia di S. Pietro, a romanesque abbey built in 1078 by the monks of Cluny, in Cosio Valtellino, province of Sondrio, Italy ~ novitic ind.

Despite the plentiness of acoustic instruments very well adapted or even specifically made for drone music, there are not so many artist in the world plying purely acoustic drone music.  Of course one can said that this is well known route and that it's much more interesting to build something upon drone – as it does New Age music, folk and actually almost any known music. With centuries (or thousands?) of development the presence of the drone has reduced  significantly, and, probably, only Indian music tradition preserved careful attitude to it. All sounds are emerging from drone. Like a primal ocean of energy, it contains the potency of any sound. Melody is just a fleeting splash, surface ripple, but it can reflect some of the inner processes inside of this unknowable continuum. Repetition of melodic phrases and game of overtones are as natural for the music, as a murmur for water. Drone is a stalk for the flowers to bloom... And it happens time after time on this album – as natural, as in a spring garden. At ease, as the wellspring goes through stones. Pandelindio magicians learn the organic way of things through music and bestow us their admiration, which we happily share!

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pandelindio & bird people

 pandelindio & bird people (frente al fuego, 2016)

~ native american flute, mapuche ~

Pandelindio:

Federico Fossati _ Bamboo Clarinet, Phytagorean Harp, Bansuri, Native American Flute.

Corina Inveninato _ Bamboo Clarinet, Citarina, Tanpura

Alfredo Vidal drum and Chaska Voice on "La fuerza de la palabra"

Bird People:

Roy Culbertson III _ banjo, sruti box

Uli Rois _ banjo, sruti boxRéka Kutas _ cello

Tom Gaskell _ sitar

Ben Kingsbury _ electric guitar

Noamie Randall _ acoustic guitar

 

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pandelindio ~ fuego y soma (feathered coyote, 2013)

"Pandelindio is a self-described "solo and collective project of experimental and ritualistic music" from Argentina. On this recording the band is comprised of founder Federico Fossati and Pablo Picco of Ø+yn.  

On "Fuego y Soma", Pandelindio create a unique blend of drone-based jams with strong Indian and Middle-Eastern flavors, comprised of field recordings, box tambura, didgeridoo, violin, shehnai, bansuri, harmonium and chanting." feathered coyote 

siempre me había imaginado la música de Pandelindio en Feathered Coyote. su espíritu pastoral y comunal, tan Jewelled Antler, no puede ser más afín al sello de Uli Rois, otro de esos sellos minúsculos cuyo único objetivo es publicar discos que le apasionen, como este encuentro entre  Fede y Pablo de Omasín que encajaría como un guante en el split de A Story of Rats con Bird People o en 'through the mountain' de González & Steenkiste. no sé si hay palabras suficientes para abarcar todo lo que hay en Fuego y Soma, pero sí sé que con una tambura, un armonio y un didgeridoo se puede hacer la música más orgánica y bonita y que si además le añadimos un violín, un shehnai ~cuyo sonido está pensado para crear y mantener una sensación de buen augurio y santidad~, un bansuri, cantos y grabaciones de campo con riachuelos, amenazas de tormenta de verano, pajaritos y el cri cri de los grillos, el resultado son tres hipnóticos ragas de una belleza que es pura musicoterapia, pura euforia drone. Fuego y Soma es el sonido de todo sonando a la vez. y casi todo, en ese remanso de paz que presagia la llegada de la noche ~sólo atravesando la noche se llega al amanecer~, recuerda a los momentos más tranquilos, que eran casi todos, de Loren Chasse y Glenn Donaldson. y su inconfundible aroma hindú y de la música tradicional de la Europa del Este transmite esa sensación de libertad e improvisación que inevitablemente también relaciono con Hala Strana. 'danza para Indra', exótica, chamánica, pone la guinda a una sesión fantástica que es pura comunión con la naturaleza.

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