live concerts opportunities

[nicola catalano <catsed@xxxxxxxxx>]

sorry for cross posting, but...

hi all+++we're z.e.l.l.e from italy and we're currently looking for live
concerts opportunities worldwide (sample package available on request).
please contact me off-list, if interested. thanks.

list: apologise again for cross posting.
bye :: nicCat

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z.e.l.l.e is a duo of glitch/minimal electronica founded early 2000 by
Maurizio Martusciello and Nicola Catalano.

Maurizio Martusciello is an electroacoustic composer and a drummer who has
been involved in numerous projects of experimental and improvised music.
Among his many releases: "Meta-Harmonies" CD as Martusciello on Korm
Plastics/Staalplaat, "Dentro" CD with the group Ossatura and Tim Hodgkinson
on ReR/Megacorp, a solo 3" titled "Unsettled Line" on Metamkine and
"metaXu" CD as metaXu duo on Plate Lunch.. He won the second prize in the
third edition of the International Electroacoustic Music Contest CIMESP
(Sao Paulo do Brazil, 1999) and has played in many festivals worldwide
(Archipel 2001 in Geneve, Dissonanze 2 in Rome, Off ICMC 2000 in Berlin,
LMC Festival in London, Musique Action in Nancy, Musiques Actuelles in
Victoriaville,  Instant Chavires in Paris, Pez Ner in Lyon, Musique
Innovatrices in Saint-Etienne,  Centre Regional de Musiques  Experimentales
in Lille, Synthèse  98 in Bourges, Biennale di Roma  1999, Biennale di
Venezia 1999, GMEA Festival in Albi, GMVL Musiques Vivantes in Lyon etc.).
He's currently having an artist-in-residence of one month (June 2001) at
GMEA (Groupe de Musique Electroacoustique d'Albi) in Albi (France).


Nicola Catalano is a journalist (he writes for the Italian monthlies Blow
Up and Rumore and for Alias, weekly cultural supplement of the daily
newspaper Il Manifesto), a radio programmer for the national broadcasting
company RAI and a passionate listener of strange and unusual musics. He
also worked for years in the distribution field as PR man, import and sales
manager.

Their first album <<nth>> is out on American label Line (Aug 2001,
catalogue number: LINE_006). Another full length album is due for release
soon.


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"Z.e.l.l.e is the project, founded early 2000, of Italian duo of Maurizio
Martusciello and Nicola Catalano, both of whom reside in Rome. Their debut
CD Nth is a collection of points strewn across an implied graph of a sound
field; delicate crackles, clean sine waves and sibilant washes create a
mechanical room tone of deliberate precision. Z.e.l.l.e's use of a
transparent and airy sound palette make Nth a highly contemplative and
listenable study of sound and space." (official press release)


"Lots of crackles, stretched out sine waves and sudden interruptions or
changes. The CD cleverly builts up from a track with just one crackle
towards, in track nine (no titles of course), a more complicated pattern of
waves." (vital 286, nl)


"just wanted to say how much i like the nth cd on line. well done..." (immedia)


"Ultra-minimal, almost whispered beauty. Check." (pelicanneck, uk)

"They carry out a sort of synthesis between science and humanism." (vittore
baroni, rumore 116, translated from italian)

"The first CD of the duo formed by veteran Maurzio Martusciello and
debutant Nicola Catalano (he usually works on the other side of the
barricade) develops into an ethereal suite where (micro)melodic tendencies,
semi-organic sounds (almost calls and bawlings of artificial birds) and
atmospheres structured in a much more articulate and evocative way than the
aseptic microwave canons gradually peep out. They are diaphanous ambiences,
or better rarefied stylizations of that "narrative of memory" through
fragments and sound impressions so dear to the old musique concrete which
Martusciello & Co are lovers of: like the sketch of a landscape drawn with
a a stroke of the pencil so subtle to digress into impalpable abstraction.
A work able to reward the effort of listeners with the admittance into a
seraphic digital zen dimension." (vittore baroni, rumore 116, translated
from italian)


"A music perennially balanced on the brink of ruin, but that misteriously
never sinks nor really concretizes (...) In Z.E.L.L.E output there's much
more melody; a melody only sketched at intervals, running after itself or
being planed, stretched, compressed and that nonetheless is always able to
catch our ears. And, close to melody, there's also much more rhythm; at the
risk to be misinterpreted, we would like to underline a dub component
manipulating its sound depths and echoes (...) In the mean time please
check out this excellent "nth". Vote: 7/8" (etero Genio, blow up 40,
translated from italian)


"Z.E.L.L.E proponen una música que exige atención pero no agota;
experimental pero no aburrida; arriesgada pero no gratuita. Como en los
mejores pasajes del
"Unsettled Line" de Martusciello, el dúo se dedica no tanto a disparar
sonidos como a acotar silencios." (ross, we poy 11)


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12k | LINE
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12k + LINE RELEASES:

12k1012/LINE_004  v/a "between two points" compilation 2CD

12k1013  taylor deupree | occur | CD
12k1014  sogar | basal | CD (AUG)
12k1015  goem | abri | CD (OCT)
12k1016  ghislain poirier | TBA (OCT)

LINE_001 richard chartier | series | CD
LINE_002 immedia | 2/1 | CD
LINE_003 miki yui  | lupe luep peul epul |  CD
LINE_005 bernhard günter | monochrome white / polychrome w/neon nails | 2CD
LINE_006 z.e.l.l.e | nth | CD (AUG)
LINE_007 steve roden | forms of paper | CD  (OCT)



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home address:

NICOLA CATALANO
Via Codigoro, 36a
00127 Roma
Italia
ph. ++39 06 52370975
e-mail: catsed@xxxxxxxxx


(safer) postal address:

NICOLA CATALANO
c/o MAURIZIO MARTUSCIELLO
Via Sant'Arcangelo di Romagna, 45
00127 Roma
Italia