2 Guitars

Jan Martiz is an experimental composer and guitar player. His second album titled "II" is a promise acoustic relaxation to some, many cheers and tears have floated into the completion of a work that spans back to 2017, where Jan (aka Marius Mathiszik) spent two months, recording in an abandoned house on the countryside of Groningen. 

"When I had finished the compositions I wanted to rent an empty house for 2 months in order to record and produce the material in solitude. After some research what I could find was an abandoned, half wrecked former brothel in the nothingness of Groningen, Netherlands. Autumn was arriving and while I had started with the last summer sun rays it quickly became very cold. Between extensive walks among the sheep populating the dikes of the Ems-Delta, all I had to entertain myself in the evening with was an edition of Cosey Fanni Tutti s Art Sex Music and a few old episodes of the X Files." Jan Martiz - source

 

His last work (oct2023) "Octopus & Pyrgos" is a condensed version of a longer work, originally developed during a collaboration with visual artist Katerina Rotoli. It could be heard in two installations, kicking off ‘To Festivalaki’ – a creative get-together with friends and artists, that took place in a tiny village in Peloponnese in June '23.

 

& some circles from 2017

 

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"Down On Darkened Meetings"  is a solo release from the quietly prolific italian artist  Giuseppe Ielasi. Recorded at Ielasi’s studio in Monza outside of Milan over two days in February 2022, the seven pieces presented here continue the renewed exploration of the guitar that marks much of his solo work over the last few years. Outside of his artistic career, Giuseppe Ielasi co-founded the music label Fringes Recordings in 1998.

Between abstraction and immediacy, austerity and abundance, imbued with Ielasi’s distinctive lightness of touch, considered approach to pacing, and subtly psychedelic approach to the stereo field, "Down on Darkened Meetings" is a major new work from a quiet master of contemporary experimental music.
 

 

 

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