Aparticle
Biographie Aparticle
Aparticle
is an ensemble of four talented jazz musicians who crossed paths in 2017 after a long series of national and international live performances, experienced singularly or as part of a different collective all around the world. Their talents blended in two albums, “Bulbs”(2018) and “The Glamour Action” (2020), where their refined experimental Euro Jazz research and their love for gut-feeling Afro drums shine alike.
Aparticle are Michele Bonifati, Giulio Stermieri, Cristiano Arcelli and Ermanno Baron, an eclectic quartet with a very peculiar blend of jazz, rock and improvised music.
They formed in 2017, their debut album, Bulbs, came out in 2018, followed by The Glamour Action in 2020. Their identity is always in progress: as they play their tracks live, these gradually become springboards for the invention of newer songs.
The Glamour Tapes is the completely analogic re-reading of The Glamour Action in an effort to capture in studio the dialogue between composing and improvising. It’s a revision under the stars of the “here and now” as in heroic times, at the point of intersection with the work of producer Stefano Castagna who has been making a philosophy of producing and listening “analogue” for years now. “We met and Stefano suggested we could revisit our second album working in a completely analogue atmosphere.
We were curious, so we went multi-track in Stefano’s studio and then mixed in analogue with his Solid State Logic console. No computers were used at any productive stage and the audio hasn’t been processed by whatsoever digital device. It was an important moment of recognition of how deeply sound technology can affect pure sound itself. In this perspective our material went through a thorough re-elaboration, artistically even, in the light of Stefano’s different mode of sound-recording”.
In the era of “liquid music”, the difficulties and challenges of this new stance reverberated through the community of friends, journalists, professional engineers and fellow musicians, as you can read in the booklet.
