Valentina Magaletti, Marlene Ribeiro – Due Matte

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In 2019 Valentina Magaletti (Tomaga, Vanishing Twin, et al…) & Marlene Ribeiro (Gnod, Negra Blanca) were in residency at the Hysteria project at Porto’s Sonoscopia where they ran percussion workshops for female artists exploring new working methods.

Back in London, Valentina’s phone recordings from the workshops became the base materials for DUE MATTE (two crazy women) where the hysteria theme was developed further. Vocal incantations, poems, piano, brass, and electronics were added to the concrte cauldron. The resultant brew is a deftly concocted, potent, and disorienting assemblage that will appeal to head-nodders and chin-strokers alike. DUE MATTE is cinematic in scope, where tension is built with primal, ritualistic rhythms then resolving into detailed, introspective passages. A trip all of its own, for sure. DUE MATTE will appeal to those with ears for Vox Populi, Taj Mahal Travellers, Tools You Can Trust, Bow Gamelan, Anne Gillis.
Highly recommended

Magaletti and Ribeiro reunited in Hysteria, an artistic residency at Sonoscopia 2019, the Porto festival, where they ran percussion workshops for female artists exploring new working methods. Due Matte is the record that resulted from that uniting: a powerful interaction of styles and genres, where vocal incantations and poems are blended with piano, brass, electronics, drums, horns and found objects to shape an inventive and rich sound world, much verged into the ritualistic and the ancient.

A truly mesmerizing album.