Written and recorded with the goal of creating a one-movement suite in the least amount of time possible, "Succo di formiche" reflects the archetypal joy of music making, the spontaneous impulses underlying its formation, and a love of the record album form.
Press
"Di Domenico has written Succo di formiche... with the intention of creating a one-movement suite in the least amount of time possible. The recording of the 41-minute seven-movement Succo di formiche took four days at Les Ateliers Claus in Brussels in May 2021. Still, it reflects faithfully the archetypal, spontaneous joy of music making as well as the love of the vinyl album format."
– Eyal Hareuveni for salt peanuts*
"The minimalist piano stings a diaphanous electronic embroidery, traversed by variegation, glissandos, mysterious voices, a fantastic and soft tinkling... A very beautiful madness."
– Inactuelles (FR)
Track List
LP TRACK LIST
A1. Non aver alba 09:00)A2. Una coperta di silenzio (10:51)
B1. Gli altoparlanti dei grilli (5:57)
B2. Minum (2:10)
B3. La scatola di grissini perfetta (4:17)
B4. Minum (reprise) (1:04)
B5. Il ritorno e'sempre più corto (8:31)
Credits
About Giovanni Di Domenico
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Giovanni Di Domenico, pianist, was born in Rome on the 20th July 1977. Following his father’s consecutive assignments as a civil engineer he actually lived out his first decade in Africa – until he was five in Libya, from then until his eight anniversary in the Cameroons and until ten in Algeria. Musically self-taught until the age of 24, when he finally enrolled in Royal Conservatory in Den Haag, Holland (Koninklijke Conservatorium, 2001-2006) – majoring in ‘jazz piano’. He aspired to develop an an encyclopedic technique, with rhythm, harmony and tone informed by non-western traditions yet equally sensitive to Debussy’s “Préludes”, Luciano Berio’s “Sequenzas”, to the ‘ambi-ideation’ heard in Borah Bergman’s Soul Note recordings, Cecil Taylor’s polissemic density, Paul Bley’s bruised transparency and of course, the most radical manifestations stemming from the underworld of pop music, invariably tied together by his own original praxis. He currently lives in Brussels.
