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Zehra

by H'UM

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U/nu: live electronics, field recordings manipulated, programming, synths, toy synth
Stefano Grasso: drums, vibraphone

Special Guests:
Placido Salamone: electric guitar
Carlo Nicita: bass flute
Camilla Barbarito: acting voice
Danilo Gallo: electric bass guitar
Alberto N. A. Turra: electric guitar
Sarah Stride: voice
Eloisa Manera: violin

credits

released September 4, 2020

EN:
/// Zehra. Like the Kurdish artist Zehra Doğan. It is not, however,
a tribute to the work of Zehra Doğan understood as simple admiration of the disruptive expressive force and denunciation of her paintings. It is, if anything, a description that becomes a metaphor for his relationship with art that is opposed to a society in which art itself has less and less value (the latter understood as coherence, depth of intent, shunning any compromise). Zehra is therefore a personal narration of what can be defined as the “necessity of the creative act that is not dependent on whatever”.
Nine original electro-acoustic compositions with a dense and materic sound made using a variety of devices such as turntable feedback, samplers, synthesizers that use sound as a material dialoguing with the drums, the vibraphone and various objects by Stefano Grasso. The H’UM duo often becomes a trio or, sometimes, a quartet with the addition of several extraordinary guest musicians, chosen for different stylistic fields: Placido Salamone - producer and leading Italian pop guitarist (Antonacci, Ramazzotti, Celentano, etc.); Carlo Nicita - very original jazz flutist with obvious classical influences; Camilla Barbarito - actress/singer (or vice versa) dedicated to popular music and theatrical experimentation; Danilo Gallo - bassist and double bassist of the most interesting Italian jazz open to multiple influences and genres; Alberto N. A. Turra - very original guitarist with a strong blues matrix; Sarah Stride - electro-pop singer-songwriter; Eloisa Manera - avant-garde violinist.

ITA:
/// Zehra. Come l’artista curda Zehra Doğan. Non è però un omaggio riferito all’opera di Zehra Doğan inteso come semplice ammirazione della forza espressiva dirompente e di denuncia dei suoi dipinti.
E’ semmai una descrizione che diventa metafora del suo rapporto con l’arte che si contrappone a una società in cui l’arte stessa ha sempre meno valore (quest’ultimo inteso come coerenza, profondità d’intenti, rifuggire da ogni compromesso). Zehra è pertanto un raccontare nella maniera più personale possibile quella che può essere definita come “necessità dell’atto creativo che prescinde qualunque cosa”. Nove composizioni originali elettroacustiche dal suono denso e materico realizzate utilizzando una varietà di dispositivi come feedback di giradischi, campionatori, sintetizzatori che utilizzano il suono come materia dialogando con la batteria, il vibrafono e gli oggetti vari di Stefano Grasso. Il duo H’UM sovente diventa trio o, talvolta, quartetto con l’aggiunta di diversi straordinari musicisti ospiti, scelti per differente ambito stilistico: Placido Salamone - producer e chitarrista di punta del pop italiano (Antonacci, Ramazzotti, Celentano, ecc); Carlo Nicita - originalissimo flautista jazz dalle evidenti influenze classiche; Camilla Barbarito - attrice/cantante (o viceversa) dedita alla musica popolare e alle sperimentazioni teatrali; Danilo Gallo - bassista e contrabbassista del jazz italiano più interessante aperto a molteplici influenze e generi; Alberto N.A. Turra - originalissimo chitarrista dalla forte matrice blues; Sarah Stride - cantautrice di ambito elettro-pop; Eloisa Manera - violinista di impronta avantgarde.


All compositions by Rosario Di Rosa.
The verses of “People From Ibisrxza” are taken from the poem “Io” by Nazik al-Mala’ika translated by Valentina Colombo in the
anthology “Non Ho Peccato Abbastanza” (2007, ed. Mondadori).

/// Recorded between November 2019 and February 2020 by U/nu at the Bunker.
Additional recordings made on February 15, 2020 at the Crossroad Recording Studio by Vins De Leo
Mixed and mastered by U/nu at the Bunker \\\

Art direction by Rosario Di Rosa
Produced by Rosario Di Rosa and
Carlo Nicita for Deep Voice Records


This music is dedicated to
Marta Di Rosa

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