FUTURO ANTICO afghanistan K7 aktuala battiato camisasca ethnic masterpiece

$

96

Elaborazione Futuro Antico "Afghanistan" tape privately issued by Walter Maioli (no catalogue number) in Italy, late 1970s. Printed artwork. ****** Tape:m- / Cov:m- ****** Ultra rare tape, privately released by Elaborazione Futuro Antico before producing their only LP in 1980. This tape titled "Afghanistan" documents the sound journey walter Maioli did in middle-east in the 1970s. Hard to tell if we are listening to ethnic music or if these sounds has been treated by Aktuala… The sound is primitive and a very experimental blend of folk voices and repetitive instrumental drones. Much more fascinating and obscure than their "Dai primitivi all'elettronica"  LP and beyond rare! Futuro Antico was a short collaboration founded in Italy, between Walter Maioli and Riccardo Sinigaglia, plotted right after Maioli departed from the classic and artistic band Aktuala. Apart from these two artists, three more musicians (from India and Africa) played or were invited, Gabin Dabiré being himself a titan of the instrumental experimentation and interpretation himself, Kala and Oiseau featuring as percussionists. The three main artists are mostly experienced in different music attitudes and aptitudes, despite that their collaboration brings forth a few common musical interests (powerfully achieved) rather than combining diversity in a language of usual sense. Walter Maioli is the experienced multi-instrumentalist, with particular studies in music and its origins, acoustics and its archetypal or psychedelic motions, nature and its vivid sound richness. Riccardo Sinigaglia is the electronic player, having experimented from operas to interferences for a long time. Gabin Dabiré finally adds his singing, percussive and traditional talents. The instrumentality evolves accordingly, from the oldest tricks of synthesizers and processers to the unique sets of ethnic natural instruments. The band lived shortly. In comparison with Aktuala, the second seems to be a winner of taste, concept and popularity. Futuro Antico left, nevertheless, a precious fruit of music, mainly based on a superior use of the expressions and the experimental values, plus focused on a subtle and mysterious essence, culminating mostly into the field of electronic, world music (having an artistic and ethnic connotation, not a simple ambient or visionary one), raga-like meditations and psychedelic sound aesthetic. Right to this day, their obscure "Dai primitivi all'elettronica" can be considered an eclectic blend of composition, starting acoustic and technical, natural and cosmic, minimal yet exhaustive beliefs of expression, and persisting on electronic's space of music, world music's atmosphere and influence, sound-acoustic's savant exploration or, last but definitely not least, on the mused relation with feelings, cultures and conventionalisms being bent (the last one, of course, linked properly with avant-garde, but also with the new discoveries of music). ****** Please wait to receive my invoice before sending the payment after the auction ends. Attention! Real postage costs are not USD 4 as all the items are located in Doha, Qatar (which has a very safe and professional post system). Postage costs registered up to 1 Kilo (generally 3 LPs): to Europe and Japan is USD 16,50 / to America and Oceania is USD 22,50. Postage costs registered up to 2 Kilos:  to Europe and Japan is USD 28,00 / to America and Oceania is USD 34,00. ****** More ebay auctions of ultra rare LP and K7 editions in the coming weeks. Next auction: Sound Poetry and Mail Art, Henri Chopin, Bernard Heidsieck, OU, Fylkingen, VEC tapes, M.B., Haters, etc… ****** Thank you for your kind attention and good luck with your bids.