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 …
… Strange that I missed Capricorni Pneumatici, even though I am a Capricorn myself. The Italian duo inspired by Crowley, Lovecraft’s Azathoth and ‘Necronomicon’, Artaud’s ‘Tutuguri’, and William Blake’s prophecy had the makings of more than just a hidden gem in the 80s, from “Capricorni Pneumatici” and “Al-Azif” (1987), “Über …
Dissections is the first part of a trilogy by Capricorni Pneumatici, an Italian cult band from the glorious esoteric-industrial scene (I recently wrote about their historic cassette Nibbas). The next chapters of this trilogy will be Variants and Mutations, both of live electronics, recorded on 30 August 2022 and 7 …