Alan Freeman on Vala or the Four Zoas

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 …

Al-Azif – Urem Temon (Wow & FLutter)

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.