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 …
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 …
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 …