Available to buy now : Enrico Coniglio 'dyanMU' (1 Viewer)

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Hi guys,

From today we're taking orders through the web shop of the new album from Enrico Coniglio.

http://www.psychonavigation.com/dyanmu.html

Remember there's only 500 digipacks available so grab one while you can!

Thanks,

Keith

 

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Taken from http://www.textura.org/reviews/coniglio_dyanmu.htm

Enrico Coniglio-Elisa Marzorati: dyanMU
Psychonavigation

Enrico Coniglio's decision to collaborate with pianist Elisa Marzorati for his second Psychonavigation album is an inspired move which pays off handsomely. The two initiated the project in the summer of 2006 by merging his sampling, filtering, and looping techniques and electronic soundscaping style with her elegant etudes. The two are heard together in many pieces but also in solo settings. Representative of the paired pieces, “Brushwork” accompanies dancing piano notes with a lightly galloping percussive rhythm and waves of high- and low-pitched synth tones. In “Mothlight,” Coniglio's vibrant electronics take center stage with Marzorati providing peripheral enhancements. Ample spaces separate the piano chords in “Cableway,” suggesting the huge expanse traversed by the cable car's trip, while the droning tones echo resonantly throughout the cavernous open space. Coniglio's haunted moodscape “Birds Delight” evokes mystery and unease as willowy tones and bass throbs seemingly drift through the corridors of a long-abandoned building. The focus shifts to Marzorati in the lovely “Foliage,” which nurtures a tranquil and dreamy mood, and “Bell-Ringer,” whose bright and vibrant piano melodies are in keeping with its title.

Of course the “piano & electronics” concept isn't without precedent—the most obvious example being the collaborations between Ryuichi Sakamoto and Carsten Nicolai. But a recording like Insen is far different from dyanMU; the former typically juxtaposes Sakamoto's elegant playing on one side and Nicolai's pristine electronic beat patterns on the other; though the concluding “Timepiece” does adopt that format to some degree, dyanMU generally blends the two realms more indissolubly. Classically-trained, Mazorati's approach extends beyond a single style to embrace classical but also jazz-inflected improvisation, and Coniglio's contribution isn't primarily rhythm-oriented but instead rooted in atmospheric enhancement and sound design. That the album is partly based on the preludes of Debussy is clearly audible in the solo piano pieces which exude the refined elegance of the composer's work; at times, however, Marzorati takes that idea and pushes it into the realm of free improvisation, resulting in the jazz-inflected “Walking Distance.” Picture Mazorati playing in a conservatory practice room and open windows allowing Coniglio's myriad colourations to flood in and envelop the pianist's performing space and you'll have a fairly accurate impression of dyanMU s sound.

March 2008

 

[psycho]

Friday 22nd February 2008

Taken from Ireland's national newspaper The Star

Enrico Coniglio 'dyanMU'
(Psychonavigation)
4/5

Enrico Coniglio teams up with pianist Elisa Marzorati on a record that possesses an elegance reminiscent of artists like Debussy and Sakamoto.The marriage of sampling and looping with classically-influenced piano is made in heaven,although the two styles do separate temporarily during the course of the record.

 

[psycho]

Out Today - Enrico Coniglio 'dyanMU' Allbum


The CD is available to buy direct from Psychonavigation Records here :
http://www.psychonavigation.com/dyanmu.html

Gothtronic Review

http://www.gothtronic.com/?page=23&reviews=4650

Just about two years ago Enrico Coniglio and Elisa Marzorati started
the "dyanMU" project. With instruments ranging from samplers, filters,
computers and a piano they created a true masterpiece which can be
mentioned in one breath with the works of someone like Biosphere or
Fennesz. Heavy minimal ambient, on times with minimal technoid beats
and patterns, in which the piano dictating the melodic parts in most
compositions.

If you compare this release to for example the collaboration between
Alva Noto and Ryuchi Sakamoto, "dyanMU" is accessible to a way larger
audience. On the one side this is because of the less incoherent way
she plays piano, but it's definitly also because this release contains
less weird and hurtful frequencies. But concerning the amosphere, both
collaborations are quite close to eachother.

The label on which this album is released - the artwork reminds me
quite a bit of Touch releases with pictures by the hand of John
Wozencroft - is an Irish label and "dyanMU" is release number 22. Most
of the mentioned artists are unfamiliar to me, but i was pleasently
surprised to read the names Lackluster and Hans-Joachim Roedelius.

Conlusion: Worth researching!

Band: Coniglio, Enrico(int)
Label: Psychonavigation Records
Genre: ambient (ambient / soundscapes / ritual / drones)
Type: cd
Grade: 8
Review by: Bauke

 

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http://www.tokafi.com/newsitems/cd-feature-enrico-coniglio-dyanmu/

The journey begins with a thought and a questionmark: “Play it soft?”, Enrico Coniglio asks in the digipack, while Franco Marzorati claims in the preface to the album that “Ambient music swallows not only the world with its noise but also silence with its thoughts. Perhaps it realizes the extreme desire: deadalive”.The music hasn’t even started yet and one already feels that this is by no means an ordinary release.

Of course, Enrico Coniglio has made a name for himself in that respect. His previous effort, “Areavirus”, was a work which bulged out in every direction imagineable, a record which effortlessly moved from crisp electronica to richly tectured soundscapes and from solo pieces to band-like constellations. Coniglio is the kind of musician who’s not eclectic for the sake of it, but simply because his field of interest is so wide. Indecisiveness, one could say, is a virtue here.

This is also why his fifth album, a collaboration with Swiss-born pianist Elisa Marzorati, has such a completely natural ring to it. “Freely inspired by the piano Preludes of Claude Debussy”, it says, but the smell of pretentiousness which easily pervades such lines is softened by the fact that this is truly the meeting of two musicians who enjoy reaching out beyond their own nose and who have finetuned the details of their vision over the course of more than a full year – “dyanMU” is not only the album title, but the name of their joint project as well, a “meeting between two artists coming from very different traditions.

Almost by default, these 42 minutes will therefore fail to satisfy both the demand for sonic purity of die-hard classical fans and the desire for seamless smoothness often voiced by Ambient listeners. Marzorati neither strives for an organic sound in her playing (lots of pedal) nor in her choice of instrument (most likely an ePiano), her elegant melodies on rhythmic opener “brushwork” are rather influenced by electronica than by the Vienese school, her disqueting clusters on “skip to eXit” and her harmonic language on “walking distance” by midnight Jazz and nervous breakdowns. Coniglio’s atmospheres, meanwhile, take turns at being ethereal and lightflooded, obscured by clouds, ominous and abstract.

Despite its many tonal, timbral and stylistic variations, “dynMU” does settle into a groove, albeit an unusual one. Dense moods are continously juxtaposed with solo piano pieces, leaving a lot of free creative space to the listener, while sucking him in through the backdoor. Only the final three tracks deviate from this path, when Coniglio builds crackling and clattering beats from tiny bits of binary code and immerses himself in field-recordings to come up with a modern-day version of Debussy’s impressionism on “loss (part I & II)”.

Even in its more disturbing passages, the album remains contained, never fully releasing the tension and merely easing it slightly when Marzorati is allowed to gently stroke the keys. This may be, why dyanMU” is a work which demands to be appreciated through repeated listening, but which is not too heavy or burdensome to be consumed several times in a row. Quite obviously, however, it risks disappearing into your subconscious without the necessary dynamic thrust: We strongly recommend playing this loud!

By Tobias Fischer

 

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Taken from 'The Ticket' part of the The Irish Times newspaper

http://www.ireland.com/theticket/articles/...5104746514.html

ENRICO CONIGLIO & ELISA MARZORATI
dyanMU Psychonavigation

Italian electro-ambient composer Enrico Coniglio's second release on the fine Dublin Psychonavigation label sees him team up with Swiss-Italian piano virtuosa Elisa Marzorati. It was Marzorati's 2006 recording of Debussy's 24 Preludes for Solo Piano that inspired dyanMU's experimental mingling of impressionistic (and sometimes sassily jazz-inflected) piano figures with minimalist loops, samples and drones. Coniglio is clearly more than at home on Planet Plugin, but he doesn't distract overmuch with ostentatious noodling. And his tact is not lost on Marzorati, who offers rich, whole-tone atmospherics rather than acrobatic busyness. There are even entire tracks where the two musicians, as if in mutual homage, stay out of each other's way altogether. A low-key beaut, well worth your euros. DARAGH Ó'DÚBHÁIN

 

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A mention for Enrico's CD on Robert Fripp's website and a review from Cyclic defrost

A Sample of Paradise
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Sun., Jun 8, 2008


Venetian guitarist and composer Enrico Coniglio has an album utilising a sample from Robert Fripp’s 1998 toe-tapper,
The Gates of Paradise. Entitled dyanMU, the record also
features the playing pianist, Elisa Marzorati. The album is
out on the Irish label Psychonavigation Records and you can
listen to samples of the album over on Enrico’s myspace
site and here. Thanks to Toolfan2 for the heads-up.
http://www.dgmlive.com/news.htm?entry=1644


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