Joy De Vivre: Culver, Aniello tapes out now

[francesco]

Hi all,
last two tapes for this year

Culver - Corsen (c30) - JDV060

Culver is the main project of Lee Stokoe, a true relentless hero of the deepest (North) England's underground. Totally avoiding the internet realm, our man has been running the mighty Matching Head label for 25 years now. He has been also part of great projects such as Skullflower, Marzuraan, Inseminoid, Church Burner among many others...On this thirty minutes lenght tape you can once again witness his mastery of giving form and substance to a yet classic blend. Ghostly acoustic guitar, reverse loops and gloomy, hellish lumpy drones. Pasty layers of dark matter that gather in each other in a profoundly bleak and psychedelic magma. Rare full colors cover made by the artist himself.

No sample
direct purchase > https://jdv.bigcartel.com/product/culver-corsen

Aniello - Torino la prima volta (c30) JDV059

Aniello Maffettone is a young man - now residing in Torino - as much creative as stingy of releases: his previous work on Opal tapes is from 2013. Tunes of this release date back to the period of his transfer from a small town in southern Italy to a large post-industrial city in the North West; so they're a soundtrack of a serene disorientation, not devoid of dour folds and pink shadows of anguish...
Among the infinity of music made with synthesizers, nowadays it has become quite rare and difficult to hear something that is not modular boredom, dull drone, hi fi baroque something or redundant whatelse... Aniello's music is none of this. Mostly brooding but highly dynamic, and sometimes impetuous, his sound is truly warm and intense. A series of drafts, simple harmonic sequences conflagrate in stupendous weaving, progressions on a constant analogue hiss - almost an unaware warning on the intrinsic precariousness of reality... A worth listen in your winter.

sample https://soundcloud.com/joydevivre/aniello-colline-rosa
direct purchase > https://jdv.bigcartel.com/product/aniello-torino-la-prima-volta

For images of these (and past) releases we now have this Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/jdv.cassettes/

Thanks for your attention!

Cheers,
f.