MARMO - Epistolae

Format: 2 x 12" Vinyl
Catalogue No.: UTTER16
Release Date: 12 Jul 2023
Genre: Ambient/Drone

A1. Introduzione
A2. Sacrificio Quotidiano
A3. Respiro
B1. Fenomenologia Del Giudizio B2. Semiotica
B3. Gotta Light?
C1. Traveling Without Moving C2. Demetra
C3. Vortice
D1. Carezza
D2. Mollusco
D3. Liturgia Lisergica
D4. Finale

MARMO, a collaborative project between Christian Duka (Vādin / Amoenus) and Marco Maldarella (Sinestesie), was born out of friendship and shared passion for music-making. Starting off respectively as the electric guitarist and singer in a metal band nearly a decade ago, the pair have worked their way through various flavours of electronic music inhabiting someplace between ambient and dance music, arriving at their singular aesthetic on this, their second album and first for Utter.

'Epistolae' - Latin for 'written letters' - was created between London and Bologna during the COVID-19 pandemic, an ode to friendship and as a way to keep connected during a time of isolated separation. The album is conceived as one continuous musical experience, with each track flowing effortlessly into each other in sequence as is heard on the final cut you are listening to now. A veritable sonic journey, as one might say.

The outcome is an undulating collage carrying emotion as its common thread, with rich ambient textures giving way to bursts of percussion, simmering with shrouded whispers and spoken word, embossed with rhythms and borrowing influences from downtempo, dub, breaks, techno and tribal electronica.

'Epistolae' is available on limited vinyl and digital formats, mastered & Cut by Anne Taegert at D&M. Artwork by Marco Maldarella.

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