LUCIANO CILIO – Dialoghi Del Presente (Reissue) – LP – Vinyl [MAR 6]

LP – Standard Edition Black Vinyl.

Lone album by Italian composer and multi-instrumentalist

Originally released in 1977 on EMI

Original copies go for high collector prices

Luciano Cilio was born in Naples, Italy, in 1950. He studied music and architecture and, in the late 60s, collaborated with local artist Alan Sorrenti, American expat Shawn Phillips and various avant-garde theater groups. A virtuoso guitarist and self-taught composer, Cilio released only one LP before his untimely death at the age of 33.

Dialoghi Del Presente (1977) is a work like no other, one that sounds both ancient and ahead of its time. Produced by Renato Marengo, it features a series of muted tableaux for strings, woodwinds, guitar, chorus, piano and percussion. Cilio carves out a space where subtle, repetitive phrases yieldalmost imperceptiblyto breathtaking silence.

As Jim ORourke writes, These recordings sound as if they were to please no one but himself; they feel selfcontained, introspective, and determined … You can feel in the music a sort of necessity that can be rarely found, like in This Heats debut or Nick Drakes Pink Moon.

While each subsequent quadro grows more abstract, Cilio draws the listener into an expansive, pastoral soundscape. The closing piece, Interludio, begins with a plaintive guitar, which is joined by haunting strings and woodwinds before concluding, poignantly, as the album began, with Cilio and his guitar, alone once more.

Superior Viaducts edition reproduces the original sleeve design.

Recommended for fans of: Johann Johannsson, Talk Talks Spirit of Eden, Arvo Part and Popol Vuh.

Tracklist:

A1 Primo Quadro “Della Conoscenza”
A2 Secondo Quadro
A3 Terzo Quadro

B1 Quarto Quadro “Dell’Universo Assente”
B2 Interludio