It was exactly 40 years ago that Capricorni Pneumatici first began their experiments in what could genuinely be described as sonic rituals. This, at the same time, as ‘Crocodile Dundee’ wowed cinema-goers, and pop connoisseurs flocked to Woolworth’s for Mr Mister‘s latest hit. There was serious talk about Rolling Stones splitting up. Appropriately …
Reprinting “Vala, Or The Four Zoas” today means opening a sonic crypt where time seems to have stopped, preserving the essence of an underground that defied the linearity of its decade. Capricorni Pneumatici, after forty years of experimentation that escapes any conventional categorization, confirm with this work their role as …
Read it on Soundhom website Vala, Or The Four Zoas surfaces from a white‑hot stretch in the life of Capricorni Pneumatici, captured only weeks after the sessions for IX‑TAB and in direct parallel with the gestation of Nibbas. The same constellation of albums – later restored alongside Al‑Azif and Witchcraft …
The Anatomy of Sound: Capricorni Pneumatici’s Dissections If the early work of Capricorni Pneumatici was about the purity of the ritual moment—capturing a specific invocation in a specific space—then their 2023 release, Dissections, represents the opposite but equally vital pole of their creative identity: the archive. This sprawling, 2xCD set …
It is like a kind of compulsive disorder, feeling obliged to bring the work of Capricorni Pneumatici back to the public’s attention through reissues of the most important exploits of this group of experimentalists who dabbled in industrial, found sounds, and ambient music. With a band name plucked from the work of Alaister …
What strikes you first about this album is how little it cares about easing you in. The accompanying text frames the project in terms of process, duration and the physical circumstances of its creation, but none of that prepares you for the way the music behaves when you actually sit …
Read the original review on Igloo Magazine With a constant passion that has never wavered over the years, Raffaele (alias Sonologyst) from Eighth Tower Records has promoted pioneering and catchy works from the (post)industrial music scene worldwide through numerous reissues—alongside spectral musique concrète and dark, rumbling cinematic music by various …
Thanks to the joint efforts of Luce Sia and Eight Tower Records, Capricorni Pneumatici’s second opus is reissued after almost forty years, for the first time on CD in a limited edition of 200 copies. Probably the darkest and most esoteric work of this project, the album has its roots …
The two complementary cassettes Capricorni Pneumatici and Al-Azif, both released in 1987, established the Milanese duo among the most credible esoteric acts operating within the Italian underground scene. Their desire to continue their exploration in new directions led them to expand their expressive range with a Yamaha DX7, used to …
More than one of the previous opus, Dissections, released in 2023 (see R&C n° 137), this Variants delves into the universe of Aleister Crowley, from whom the formation takes its name, while the graphic artist Hinny Mower seems to take possession of Hieronymus Bosch’s Hell crossed with one of the …