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City: capitale sabauda
State: Torino
Country: IT
Signup Date: 12/26/2004

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Sunday, January 31, 2010 
BLIND CAVE SALAMANDER & NURSE WITH WOUND “Soliloquy For Lilith” Live
(Torino, Italy, MITO Festival, 23/09/2009)
Press Bits:


Ritual #42, Jan.2010: www.ritual-magazine.com
Not limiting themselves to a faithful reproduction of the original “Soliloquy For Lilith” Nurse With Wound, Colin Potter (electronics) and Steve Stapleton (guitar) have rearranged the work alongside Blind Cave Salamander (Paul Beauchamp – electronics, Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo – guitar and electric viola, Julia Kent – cello). The performance was suggestive, operating on the listeners at a cerebral level, as if the human component was perceptible and relevant, almost depicting, rigorously, a demonstration of an algebraic theorem starting from a hypothesis based on industrial, ambient, drone and noise, visionary and minimal.
The sounds in the diversity and variety of their origins sum together to point of filling the sonic spectrum in correspondence to the climax of the composition, to then be subtracted in a manner equally surgical, taking the track to a progressive finish, the natural conclusion to its existence.

www.actingoutmag.com:
... electronica, great drones and field recordings, stretched notes of cello and viola, repetitions and repetitions, tiny mutations for an hour of hypnotic music, utopian and cerebral.
An excellent combination of unusual flavors that refer to distant and intriguing worlds.
...un set intenso e celebrativo, quasi un elogio a base di drone e feedback al potere della musica elettroacustica.
... an intense and celebratory set, almost a eulogy of drones and feedback to the power of electro-acoustic music.

www.rosaselvaggia.com
... a masterful interpretation, as much minimal and essential as the original work: a long drone that winds and rewinds itself like a spiral in a slow but unrelenting emotive crescendo. Everything being reinforced by the splendid visuals that incessantly run at the backs of the 5 musicians.
The breathless public remains motionless for an hour and seems almost to perceive and “touch” the electricity in the air, or like the old fathers of American psychedelia of the 60's said, “see the sounds and touch the colors.”

www.versacrum.com
...magnificent, hypnotic and profound...
The effect is awesome: this is the abysmalness of the infinite, or the absolute.
The entire performance seems to recall ancestral concepts, difficult to express...
The formal base idea of the original disc is kept. Even if at the performance level the tracks of the disc are flatter and more monolithic, the music that springs from this live version probes profound and unknown concepts of the studio recording.
At the end of the concert, the musicians leave the stage one at a time. Finally the drones expires and dies and silence reigns once again only to be ripped open by a long applause.


Forthcoming "Soliloquy For Lilith" live performance:
13/02/2010 @ Artefact Festival, Leuven, Belgium


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Saturday, January 30, 2010 
In Vitro:
“Culture or tissue cultivation or cellular growth: the technical procedure that keeps parts separated from a multicellular organism alive in an artificial environment which, through its physical and chemical properties, preserves the main and basic vital functions and naturalization of the living matter...even if a culture "in vitro" is different from the original organism's tissue in many ways, the basic attributes of the cells are the same; taking the cells away from the influence of the whole they belong to creates the best conditions to study their properties””
From: “Giuseppe Levi, Tessuto - Biologia, in Enciclopedia italiana di scienze, lettere ed arti, vol. XXXII” Roma 1937.

Larsen & z'ev "In V.Tro":
a soundtrack to micro-cinematic images that document the1935 -1985 cellular studies by the Istituto di Anatomia Umana Normale (now “Domestic Animals Anatomy, Histology and General Embriology Department of Veterinary of the University of Torino”).


Press Bits referring to MITO festival, 23/09/2010, première:
- Ritual #42, Jan.2010
…the second act is opened by Larsen joined by z'ev for "In V.Tro", a live soundtrack to "Lo Sguardo Attraverso L’obiettivo” an original documentary on researches done in the 30's on cellular cultures.
The blending worked well, with Larsen's sonic textures sided and "disturbed" by, semi-improvised, z'ev interferences. This piece reproduces the idea of lab sperimentation and biological procedures to create life outside a living organism with the use of introspective and minimal sounds (even when they build up with the help of the drums).
- www.actingoutmag.com
The idea is interesting: to score Giuseppe Levi's documentary Lo sguardo attraverso l’obiettivo, a work on early shootings of cellular activity through a microscope done by the University of Torino in the 30's, using loops, electronics, semi-improvised guitar parts, electric viola, drums, glockenspiel, theremin, accordion, harmonium and metal percussions. Repetitive textures always evolving and a rich variety of musical elements through which Larsen and z'ev explore the world of life beginning - even if invisible to naked eye- to go beyond the surface and the traditional musical genres.

- www.gothicnetwork.com
...a diversified instrumentation that put together electric and acoustic without striking a blow:
percussive sounds melt into sound thickness becoming part of the music flow and, in general, all the instruments lay down their personalities at the opening of the electronics, as they were anonymous commentators witnessing the mistery of life, parts harmonic to the whole to perfection.
There is a strong ascetism in this way of playing, a devotion that trascends form and substance, an almost mystical research where individualities vanish in the sea of universal consciousness
www.rosaselvaggia.com
z'ev opens in front an almost full theatre with a lively percussive solo on a giant kettledrum in the centre of the stage. It's the intro to the drones him and Larsen use to score "In V.Tro", a cosmic audio-visual trip of incredible shootings of cells through microscope lenses. So the images of the scientific reaseraches of University of Torino, thanks to the trippy score by the 4 guys from Torino with the help of z’ev become a unique experience for the people in the theatre, with a growing musical crescendo close to a cosmic kraut rock suite among the best I ever had the chance to listen to.


"In V.Tro" live (as performed by Larsen & z'ev at Teatro Alfieri, Torino, Italy, on the 23rd of September 2009) plus z'ev aural mixes of Larsen's "In V.Tro" studio sessions, will be officially released later this year.
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Friday, January 29, 2010 
OUT NOW!
featuring Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo's ( r ) previously unreleased track
 "4 Minutes Sabbath"

VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'With Friends Like These...' CD (Tursa / Kaparte Promotions) - £13.50 / £14.50 / £15.50
"With Friends Like These" is a double CD compilation by Tursa and Kaparte Productions who are jointly responsible for the successful "Ship Of Fools" club nights in central London. Oldies like Orchestra Noir, Sieben, Naevus, Tor Lundvall, Tony Wakeford, Andrew King and Arcana are joined by a roster of less gnarled artists from the UK, Europe and beyond. This is a compilation of artists not constrained by musical label or ghetto: Albireon, Alex Monk, Amber Asylum, Andrew King, Arcana, Art Immunda, Autumn Grieve, Brown Sierra, Christy & Emily, Cutty Sark, Eva Eden, Gargemella, Golgatha, Gregorio Bardini, Guy Harries, Heidika, Hekate, Hide & Seek, Hong Kong In The 60s, Human Greed, Man Eat Man Eat Man, Mercy Liao, Naevus, Orchestra Noir, Pilori, (r) , Richard Moult, Rose Rovine E Amanti, Seventh Harmonic, Shining Vril, Sieben, SonVer, Susan Matthews, That Summer, The Hare & The Moon, Tony Wakeford, Tor Lundvall, Vega, Vultures and While Angels Watch.

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Sunday, January 24, 2010 
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010 

ARBEIT/PAUL BEAUCHAMP/FABRIZIO MODONESE PALUMBO “Soundscapes”
 
23/01/2010 @ Ex Cimitero San Pietro In Vincoli, Torino, Italy
27/02/2010 @ Tanzbar Palette, Halle, Germany

Jochen Arbeit: guitar, electronics
Paul Beauchamp: electronics, musical saw, harmonica
Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo: guitar, electric viola

With the project “Soundscapes” (born within Arbeit curated live series with same name) Jochen Arbeit (of Einstuerzende Neubauten and Die Haut), Paul Beauchamp and Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo (the duo known as Blind Cave Salamander as well as collaborators and members of several projects including Larsen, Andrew Liles, Ernesto Tomasini, Nurse With Wound…) pursue the task and challenge to exchange the results of their own sound researches in a public space. Important hereby is the moment of the spontaneous meeting of different systems of soundscaping, independent from each other.The results will gonna be unpredictable,unique and temporary.

www.myspace.com/jochenarbeit
www.myspace.com/paulbeauchamp
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Sunday, December 27, 2009 
I've uploaded on my myspace player an excerpt from the soundtrack my bandmate in Larsen Paolo Dellapiana and  I have released  for the latest art video by Giulia Caira

Only few copies of the limited numbered art  edition we have released on the occasion of  the 5th of December  premiere at Nietzsche Fabrik in Torino are still available  (for 10€ + pp) @ www.deathtripper.com, but an expanded  version, featuring remixes by Lo Dev Alm and Marco Milanesio (9cento9, DsorDNE), will be  released on late winter/early spring 2010 by our friends of Chew-Z
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Friday, December 04, 2009 
Paolo Dellapiana (my bandmate in Larsen) and I have just done the soundtrack for "Amore: Tentativi di Guarigione. Capitolo 1", the new art video by Giulia Caira. I'm also featured in the video performing with Giulia.

The soundtrack is a 22 mins long piece for electronics and electric viola and it is now available in a limited edition of 50 rubber-stamped CDs you can order to www.deathtripper.com for 10€ each (+ pp)

The video (and the soundtrack) will be presented tomorrow, the 5th of December, as part of the Open Air Winter Lab event at Nietzsche Fabrik , in our hometown Torino.

Please go to www.nietzschefabrik.com for the full programme of the night.

Also on the bill is the Larsen featuring Little Annie live show!
Our set will be based on our latest album "La Fever Lit" plus some new pieces, including 3 brand new songs we have just recorded with Annie that we are gonna perform live for the first time ever, and a couple of Little Annie's classics.
This is not only gonna be our last gig this year- as well as the only 2009 italian show for us not having been Italy included in our "La Fever Lit" european spring tour- but also a preview of next Larsen studio album.

Hope to see u there!
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 
- As some of  you already know since Ernesto Tomasini and  I  started  to perform our "Canes Venatici" album live we presented  ourselves  as a (still without official name) band along  with Paul Beauchamp and  Trevor (aka Evor Ameisie). We have  just  played @ Post Romantic Empire Final Fest (and it went really well so we wanna tnk everyone involved  exp Giulio Di Mauro  for  having killed his own empire with style and of course all of  you that  attended the show) and recorded a live in studio session for a revised version of our album; this new edition of "Canes Venatici"  will also feature remixes  by our  friends Andrew Liles, Khan and Marco Milanesio. We don't know  yet how and  when this will be released  but in the meantime "Canes Venatici"  will be made available as  digital download  too.

- The PRE Final Fest has also seen the debut of  the Paul Beauchamp/Andrew Liles/Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo beefy funky trio!
We had great fun unleashing our  loungy sci-fi metal souls on stage and we are now planning to spend our  Xmas  holiday recording an album together.

- On the 10th of  November I'll turn 41 yo and despite  of  this impending catastrophe, among other things,  I'm keeping work, slowly but firmly, on  the new  ( r ) album "Drama Queen". It is slated for a June 2010  on Important Records and I'm very happy  of how it is coming along!

more soon...
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Friday, October 09, 2009 
Hi there!

Few  days  ago  Blind Cave Salamander (as Paul Beauchamp, Julia Kent and myself) played a show  in Geneve, Switzerland, to launch our new album "Troglobite", just been released  on Shayo. This show  has been  a double bill with one of  my favourite band  ever Cindytalk. I've been in touch  with  Gordon "Cinder" Sharp of Cindytalk  for years, but this has been the first time we ever  met and  i've  got to  see them perform live. The show went  really well and I wanna tnk Yann of Shayo and  everyone  @ L'usine  for  having set  it  up, but  further  than that I' ve to say  that not only  Cindytalk live  set made me cry  but that between  Blind Cave Salamander  and them has been love at first sight and  for  sure  our  paths  will cross  again  and  there will be collaborations -live/studio/spiritual...- between our bands.
Cindytalk  have been  far  from the scene  for  a pretty long time, but  now  they are back with a new instrumental album of  very intense and  abstract  music/sounds that I strongly suggest  you  to buy; it is  titled "The Crackle Of My Soul"  and   should be out on the first week of  Nov.

Another  album  that just came out  that I really love is the new Evangelista, Carla Bozulich's band, "Prince Of Truth" . 
Carla is also  featured  on my  next  solo ( r ) album "Drama Queen" (I'm aiming to a spring 2010 release): her vocal performance on my cover version of Marlene Dietrich's  "See What The Boys In The Backroom Will Have" is really intense and  soulful.
I'm more than thrilled, happy and  grateful for having her onboard!
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Monday, September 28, 2009 
BLIND CAVE SALAMANDER new full length album TROGLOBITE
Out Now on Shayo

Launch Show: 06/10/2009 @ Le Kab De L' Usine, Geneve, Switzerland
with Cindytalk


BLIND CAVE SALAMANDER "Troglobite"



1. Moonfish
2. Blue Lagoon
3. Transition
4. (Set The Controls For) The Heart Of The Sun
5. Untitled
6. Magma
7. Used To Be Last

all music written by Paul Beauchamp & Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo
except for:

3. Paul Beauchamp & Michael Begg
4. Roger Waters

5. Marco Milanesio

performed and arranged by:

Paul Beauchamp: electronics, musical saw, harmonica, vocals

Julia Kent: cello, vocals

Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo: electric guitar, electric viola, vocals

with
Michael Begg: electric piano, kaoss pad, glass and groans on 3
Marco Milanesio: electric piano and synth on 5
Paul Wallfisch: upright piano on 2

produced, recorded, mixed and mastered between March and July 2008

by Marco Milanesio @ O.F.F., Torino, Italy, www.off.to.it

field recordings on 1 and 3 recorded by Marco Milanesio and Paul Beauchamp @ Nietzsche Fabrik, Torino, Italy, www.nietzschefabrik.com

Michael Begg’s sounds recorded @ The Captain's Quarters, East Lothian, Scotland

Artwork by Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo
Layout by Roberto Maria Clemente, www.bellissimo.it

All material
( c ) Blind Cave Salamander, 2009
( p ) Shayo, 2009

www.blindcavesalamander.com

www.myspace.com/proteidae

www.shayo.ch
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