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 …
Variants (DNN 045 C) captivates with artwork that surrealizes Hieronymus Bosch with zombie splatter. It’s the work of Hinny Mower, who also appears on the enigmatic “The Erivar.” The music, as with that album, was created by the anonymous Milanese group Capricorni Pneumatici, known for their admiration of Azatoth, Artaud, …
Capricorni Pneunatici IX TAB emerges from the shadows of the late 1980s as a work that seems suspended between myth and sonic experimentation.
Translated from Spanish, sourced from John Pereyra FB post and his blog I’ve never wondered, nor have I ever heard of anyone doing so in any corner of the planet, on the periphery of the periphery of indie pop music. That is, artists and/or bands so radically removed from the …
Below text is an excerpt from the full review you can read on Weird bones website … And then there’s this. I’ll confess that the blurb completely sold me, and it would have had to have been a real dud for me not to appreciate something about it, even if …
There are works that don’t entirely belong to the time in which they were created. They remain suspended like restless entities, waiting to be evoked when the world is ready to listen to them. “Über Artaud” by Capricorni Pneumatici is one of these.
Video: Capricorni Pneumatici Music: Capricorni PneumaticiFrom Über Artaud – Published by Vasopressin – Vinyl Reissue 2025 Video post production: CP Studio © CP 2025
Recorded in a single day at the end of August 2022, Variants is a compact yet layered work, in which Capricorni Pneumatici tackle the very concept of “variants” — musical, biological, political — with surgical clarity.
… The title piece opens the release, and it’s almost 19 minutes, the longest one. With the sound of the soprano saxophone recorded in a cave and heavily processed along with the DX7, this is a very moody, dark ambient piece. It is not a strict drone, but it sounds …