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Muna Mussie/Massimo Carozzi – Curva Cieca Oblio ኩርቫ ዕውር ምርሳዕ
LP on Xing (XONG collection XX12) out March 2024, order at www.soundohm.com/product/curva-cieca-oblio-2 and at www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.p…11860&menu=2
Collector's edition available at www.soundohm.com/product/curva-cieca-oblio-lp-whit and at shop.flash---art.it/products/muna-m…massimo-carozzi
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Xing presents the LP Curva Cieca Oblio ኩርቫ ዕውር ምርሳዕ by Muna Mussie and Massimo Carozzi, twelfth release of XONG collection - artist records. The release is on white vinyl, in a limited and numbered edition of 150 copies, together with 15 collector's editions, each accompanied by a black fabric envelope containing the words of the piece Cieca, referring to a popular song of Italian colonialism, embroidered in gold thread. The album cover is a work by Muna Mussie: Oblio/Gold.
For Curva Cieca Oblio ኩርቫ ዕውር ምርሳዕ the work of Muna Mussie extends and dialogues with the rigorous and prismatic sound vision of Massimo Carozzi. Consisting of three parts, the album starts from a research on collective and personal oblivion. References to memory through textile art and embroidery highlight the visible, the invisible and the tactile. Cieca moves within an adverse text and a continuous stumbling demolishes its meaning, recalling to the ear a sort of break dance of the word that introduces a rhythmic plan with its own sense and form. Curva is built on the fusion of a fragment taken from a piece of Tigrinya music with the mechanical rhythm of a sewing machine and seeks to capture and point to what escapes and at the same time presses on, to trace nomadic seams, distinctive signs or hybrids. The long apnea of Oblio comes from a collective ritual, where a wall of fabric is the frame from which the voices and bare hands of the participants sew. The word OBLIO (Oblivion) spoken, written, vocalized, embroidered, lamented through word of mouth in its constant repetition becomes the body of a sound composition.
Muna Mussie is a multidisciplinary artist based in Bologna. Her work, moving between gesture, vision and word, crossed by the practice of embroidery, investigates artistic languages to give shape to the tension arising between different expressive poles, private and public, memory and oblivion, visible and invisible.
www.munamussie.com
Massimo Carozzi is a sound artist, sound designer and musician based in Bologna, Italy. He explores the relationship between sound and image, scene, literature, and space. With Anna Rispoli and Anna de Manincor he founded ZimmerFrei.
www.zimmerfrei.co.it www.cameralibera.bandcamp.com
Xong is a collection produced by Xing, a vinyl-only record label focusing on the worlds of live performativity. The collection explores a geography of artists who present this sonic field as a platform to expand their staged worlds. "The space of the record" is given focus and amplifies their poetics as both a sonic and physical phenomenon. Each physical record is a numbered edition on white vinyl hosting the solidification of the gesture. Wave upon wave, a series of "Music-Non-Music" to actualize both the artists' and listeners' imagination.
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concept and production Muna Mussie, Massimo Carozzi; recorded at Raum, ZimmerFrei Studio and Studio Spaziale by Massimo Carozzi, 2023;
assembled, arranged and mixed by Massimo Carozzi at ZimmerFrei Studio; mastered by Renato Grieco; cover Muna Mussie - Oblio Gold (B), 2022; photo Michela Pedranti, courtesy ArtNoble Gallery; artwork Xing; print handle with care Berlin; format vinyl (white). Released by Xing; in cooperation with Tanzfabrik Berlin/apap – Feminist Futures/Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. Supported by Regione Emilia-Romagna. Cat.n° XONG collection XX12 (2023); label Xing.