Leftfield electronic musician
Vincenzo Ramaglia
ANNOUNCES La parole Album
LABEL: PEM Records
Leftfield experimental IDM artist Vincenzo Ramaglia has announced the release of his upcoming album, La parole on 14 February via PEM Records, which is entirely conceived via an electronic setup without a computer. The album heavily features the impressive vocals of Laure Le Prunenec who is the singer of many known and interesting projects, including worldwide acclaimed French band Igorrr (supporter of Ministry on their 2018 North American tour). Ramaglia’s previous work was featured by the main web and paper music magazines of the Italian scene - including Ondarock, Rockerilla, Blow Up, Sentireascoltare, and Rumore whilst his recently released singles have seen support from the likes of CLASH Magazine, Son Of Marketing, Vents Magazine, and XS Noize amongst others.
To achieve his highly experimental style, Vincenzo Ramaglia receives inspiration from a wide variety of artists including Autechre, Björk, Arvo Pärt and Radiohead. Elements of Cocteau Twins’ Elizabeth Frazer emerge when the listener focuses on the lyrics as Laure Le Prunenec uses ‘real-time invented language', creating words that are already music before they are even spoken. The resulting sound is complex and should be recognised as such with strong parallels drawing to Aphex Twin meeting Diamanda Galas while lighter aspects of Squarepusher, Venetian Snares and Alva Noto enter into the mix.
La parole was mixed by Elefante Bianco (Massimo Ruscitto, Raimondo Mosci) and mastered by Reference Studio (Fabrizio De Carolis) - two Roman excellences that boast many collaborations with artists such as Ennio Morricone - while Ramaglia took the lead with composition and production. Before his electronic breakthrough, the Italian composer won the TIM (Tournoi International de Musique) for orchestral work. Ramaglia’s soundtrack also accompanied John Turturro for the award-winning Ore 2: calma piatta (Mikado Film). His work has included collaborations with exponents of the musical avant-garde, such as Massimo Ceccarelli, a virtuoso of contemporary double-bass, and Renato Ciunfrini, a multi-instrumental improviser.
La parole opens dramatically with echos of Laure Le Prunenec’s voice reverberating throughout the first track, setting the tone for what the listener can expect from the rest of the album with pronounced synths meeting remarkable electronic adornments.
Vincenzo Ramaglia provides clever uses of silences or soft embellishments of sound, creating the space for Laure Le Prunenec’s voice to soar and plummet as needed.
Rejecting the norms of music production at each step of the way, La parole ends with a canticle-esque atmosphere, allowing time for reflection upon the journey which the listener has been on with the artists.
"It offers an alternation of hypnotic atmospheres and broken rhythms, somewhere between composition and improvisation, with Laure Le Prunenec’s voice that has long gone straight to everyone's heart, around the world, with its thousand shades: from the whisper to the scream, from the 'growl' of metal ancestry to the lyric and from the bass to the falsetto and to the highest range. The style of the album is at the crossroads between IDM electronic avant-garde (in the mood of Warp and Raster-Noton artists), 'real time breakcore' (with an analog electronic setup strictly without a computer) and experimental pop. In short: a mixture that is not easy to find.”
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