Multi-Award-nominated Producer Alva Noto Remixes Vincenzo Ramaglia’s ‘La parole 1’
Modern experimental producer Alva Noto has provided a remix of Vincenzo Ramaglia’s single ‘La parole 1’, which was premiered by self-titled magazine and released on the 16th of September via PEM Records. One of the best-known sound artists in the world, Alvo Noto also helped score the soundtrack for the blockbuster film The Revenant, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, alongside his long-time collaborator Ryuichi Sakamoto, earning a GRAMMY Award nomination for the Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media, a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Score Motion Picture, a BAFTA nomination for Best Original Music, and a Critics’ Choice Movie Awards nomination for Best Score. With over 42 Million streams on Spotify alone, the producer has received support from world-renowned publications such as The Guardian, Pitchfork, Resident Advisor, The Quietus, PopMatters, and Exclaim! to name only a few. In addition, his music has aired on BBC Radio 3’s Hear and Now, NTS Radio, and WQXR.
The original track appears on Vincenzo Ramaglia’s album La parole, which features vocals sung by the French songstress Laure Le Prunenec (who has been the lead singer of worldwide-acclaimed French band Igorrr). Prominent artists μ-Ziq, Shigeto, Emika, and Venetian Snares have remixed songs from his album and, at this rate, it seems a remix album, comprised of a collection of major international electronic music acts, is in the air.
With an academic, orchestral, and humanistic background, Roman composer and electronic musician Vincenzo Ramaglia is a teacher of audiovisual language, the director of a film academy, and a writer (his first crime/thriller novel is coming soon). Ramaglia is currently active in what he calls PEM (Popular Experimental Music), often in collaboration with exponents of avant-garde music. In Ramaglia’s music the most restless and elusive rhythms of IDM can be traced, analog sequences composed on the machines all manipulated in real-time, handling the setup as a musical instrument, with echoes of Autechre, Arvo Pärt, Radiohead, and Sigur Rós. Ramaglia’s work has received support from PopMatters, CLASH Magazine, Son Of Marketing, Self-titled Magazine, Magnetic Magazine, Bandcamp Daily, Ondarock, Sentireascoltare, Rumore, and BBC Radio amongst others.
German-born, Berlin-based creator Carsten Nicolai is the man behind the moniker Alva Noto. In 1994, he founded the label NOTON with the release of his record titled ‘Spin’. Carsten, who is also a well-known visual artist and combines experimental images with his music, has performed at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Tate Modern in London, and the Sydney Opera House.
With his latest remix, Alvo Noto invites us into his gallery, curated with subtlety in mind, where we lose ourselves in the folds of flowing tapestries and chilling sensations. Tonal fractals scatter the bare earth, and tribes of vocals chant in harmony. Sculpted from sonic marble, ‘La parole 1 (Alva Noto Remix)’ is a work of art we can’t help but admire.
With the remix of his song, Vincenzo Ramaglia tells us: “I am excited to recognize the glitch/microsound soul of Alva Noto in a remodel of one of the tracks from my album, ‘La parole’. In addition to the style (evocative, hypnotic, both essential and ingenious) that I always love in Alva Noto’s music, I feel a further poetic vein opening up to an infinite horizon of suggestions. I don’t know why It reminds me, for example, of the ‘library scene’ from Wim Wenders’ ‘Der Himmel über Berlin’ but listening to the refined sound textures that Carsten placed in Laure’s voice, the film’s sequence, with its angels, comes back to my mind as if fragmented through an optical prism. My final feeling is that this metaphysical remix is really a masterpiece.”
