We Could For Hours

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First collaborative album by Fabio Orsi & Valerio Cosi, originally released on A Silent Place in 2007 (ASP26). Conceived as an homage to Puglia (the Italian region Apulia, place where they both grew up), “We Could For Hours” is a work made of impressionistic moments, tinged with pastoral and lysergic moods. A long time favorite for the artists involved, this album is an intense and personal work which aimed to capture their compositional essence…

THE WIRE, UK:
< It takes collaboration with fellow Italian underground figure Fabio Orsi to clarify Cosi’s vision. Orsi has a vocabulary of patient, abstract extended electronic loops and is adept at turning subtle textures into glacial themes. Cosi, mostly playing saxophone, benefits from this focus. Cosi’s work is stripped of its more obvious allusions, and from just a single source manifests a profusion of ideas.
Bringing the same liberal approach to the saxophone as his compositions, he uses his horn broadly as a tone-generating device. Throughout the disc, he loops, blends, processes and overdubs it into the fabric of Orsi’s drones. He sits back for the first half of “Cold Fusion (In Our Fingers)” adding arcing laments to Orsi’s slow-bellows pulse; for the second half he replicates his horn into a marching, bustling procession. “We Could For Hours: Part Two” pushes this anthemic quality to orchestral critical mass. Midway, the atmosphere swells with dissonant block chords, fragments of chanting saxophone, vocal samples and plangent arco-like timbres in the upper register. Cosi’s work with Orsi surpasses the dense atmospheres of “Collected Works”, engaging deeply with the sounds themselves rather than musical styles. >

“Primo tomo di una trilogia “pugliese” che il duo Orsi-Cosi ha in progetto di realizzare, We Could For Hours è un viaggio astrale tra le reminiscenze di ciò che permane di una tradizione in cui la memoria ha ceduto solo parzialmente alle tentazioni dell’oblio. Il tutto è filtrato dalla sensibilità porosa dell’estetica orsiana, permeabile alle influenze dell’environment in maniera concreta (field recordings) e non (nel momento in cui la storia e la geografia divengono categorie dello spirito). I saxoloop di Valerio Cosi concorrono ad alimentare l’aspetto sciamanico della questione, supportati dall’uso di synth, chitarra elettrica, arpa, in una scia elettroacustica ordinata e coerente.
E allora non stupisca se queste quattro tracce da una media di dieci minuti ciascuna riescono ad esprimere la secolare tensione tra amore e violenza in cui si specchiano le contraddizioni dell’Italia meridionale, e se sotto calotte di bordoni ed eruzioni elettroniche preme quel magma di ataviche passioni ormai esplorate e metabolizzate dagli stessi Orsi e Cosi. La celebrazione del divenire al suo grado zero, che è l’essenza stessa dell’ambient drone, qui diviene materia resistenziale, contro una visione monolitica e volgare di una cultura ancorata al passato molto più di altre. E nelle sue pieghe ritroviamo un caustico e vibrante riflesso del lavoro intrapreso da Carpitella alla fine degli anni Cinquanta: là la ricerca, qui l’arte.” (SENTIREASCOLTARE, Italy)


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