… Naturally, the music presented on the three works in question is decidedly functional to ritual practice, although the purely aesthetic-sonic value – perhaps incidentally – does not suffer too much from this: minimal, simple and insistent geometries, the harmonic texture is nuanced, stripped to the bone, the rarefaction imperceptible, …
“…varie cassette degli stessi C.P., tra cui l’ottima “Ix-Tab” (c60) che ricorda il classico “BlackMass” di Lucifer (LP di musica occulta/sintetica del 1971) rivisto e corretto alla luce di Coil e Current 93…” Vittore Baroni, Rockerilla n. 95/96 -1988
The Italians are great at creating surreal ambient music and Capricorni Pneumatici stands proudly alongside the likes of Riccardo Sinigaglia, Pierluigi Castellano, Luciano Dari, Arturo Stalteri, et al, yet with a more oblique mysterious stance. Predominantly ring modulated synthetic/percussive sounds, tape loops and location recordings, it’s an excellent tape containing …
Music and video: Capricorni Pneumatici Video shooting: Domenico Maida © 2015
Music and video:Capricorni Pneumatici © 1991 – 1995
Video: Empty Heads / Capricorni Pneumatici Music: Capricorni Pneumatici ©1991 – 2014
Video: Pacifasaurus Rex Music: Capricorni Pneumatici © 1988
Video: Pacifasaurus Rex Music: Capricorni Pnematici © 1988 – 1998
Video: Empty Heads Music: Capricorni Pneumatici – Urem Temon, from Al-Azif (1987) © 1987 Created using the broadcast television equipment of a public TV station during night shifts, experimenting with the full capabilities of analog video technology—mixers, titlers, colour correctors, tube cameras, and editing controllers—to generate synthetic abstract images.
Video: Agnus Dei, by Empty Heads Music: Capricorni Pneumatici ( Cavita’, Besz) © 1987