The Commission marks forty years of Capricorni Pneumatici with an eerie convergence of sound and image. A new CD of liturgical trances and mechanical nightmares intersects with Tomislav Török Terek’s London installation, where ritual ambient, police sirens and Tunguska dreams fuse into one destabilizing, cavernous listening experience. Forty years after …
Forty years after the original June 1986 session, Capricorni Pneumatici return with The Commission, a work that does not merely place past and present in relation but forces them to coexist within a single sonic and symbolic field. The record moves along a line that is not narrative but stratified: …
It was exactly 40 years ago that Capricorni Pneumatici first began their experiments in what could genuinely be described as sonic rituals. This, at the same time, as ‘Crocodile Dundee’ wowed cinema-goers, and pop connoisseurs flocked to Woolworth’s for Mr Mister‘s latest hit. There was serious talk about Rolling Stones splitting up. Appropriately …