Valerio Tricoli – Say Goodbye To The Wind CD

First emerging during the early years of the new millennium, over the last two decades, the Palermo born, Munich based composer, Valerio Tricoli, has forged a singular path within experimental sound practice, continuously rethinking the relationship between electroacoustic composition and narrative possibility. Say Goodbye to the Wind, his first LP with Shelter Press, stands among his most poetic and groundbreaking efforts to date. Across three intricate, deeply personal works of concrète music – dense with themes drawn from J.G. Ballard, Samuel Beckett, theosophy, and the temporal blur of DMT – the composer blurs the boundaries between the tangible and abstract, weaving complex allegories for the self.

Exploring auditory phenomena and the narrative potential of electronic and acoustic sound sources, Valerio Tricoli’s work – as it has appeared across a carefully executed body of solo recordings, as well as noteworthy collaborations with Stefano Pilia, Dean Roberts, Thomas Ankersmit, Hanno Leichtmann, and numerous others – rests at the shadowy juncture of internal and external worlds; a meeting place where the synthetic and organic give way to utterances of the existential, psychological, physical, and occult. Most commonly created on a Revox B77 reel-to-reel – manipulating, live…  more