REDEEM DOWNLOAD CODE

Enter the download code you received with your purchase to claim your downloads. Keep in mind many mobile devices don't have built in support for opening ZIP files; you may want to download on a computer.


LOGIN

Login with your existing account.

CREATE ACCOUNT

Create an account to purchase items.

Passwords must be at least 6 characters

Phi
MC $6.75

11/18/2016 647603396446 

NNF 332 


MP3 $5.94

11/18/2016 647603396446 

 


FLAC $6.99

11/18/2016 647603396446 

 


Roman noise omnivore Toni Cutrone aka Mai Mai Mai names his poisonous, punishing electronic miasmas after characters of the Greek alphabet, beginning with Theta in 2013 and followed by Δέλτα (Delta) in 2014. Φ (Phi) is the third and final installment in his Mediterranean trilogy, pushing the project deeper into a vivid interzone of digital synthesis and scorched ritual. The album opens with a searing collaboration with avant-folk instrumentalist Luca Venitucca, locked into a lofty duel of distorted drones, before pivoting to a throbbing oblivion of jackhammer bass, seething feedback, and combat samples. Later passages ooze through industrial spoken word, technoid voodoo hallucination, seasick prayer loops, and nightmare exotica, assisted in places by Italian experimental percussion legend Lino Capra Vaccina (of 1970’s “golden age” groups Aktuala and Telaio Magnetico). Cutrone ascribes a degree of his maximalist tendencies to a rootless youth packed with parents through Europe and the Near East, absorbing fragments of sensation and sound, but his own decade-plus experience in the Italian underground has doubtless played a role as well. Intensity accrues, patience decays. Closure is its own reward. Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Hombrelobo Studio by V. Fisik. Artwork and design by LEGNO; photography by Ilaria Doimo.

Tracklist

  1. #1 νυκτιπόλοις / Nuktipolois

    Listen

  2. #2 μάγοις / Magois

    Listen

  3. #3 βάκχοις / Bakkois

    Listen

  4. #4 λήναις / Lenais

    Listen

  5. #5 μύσταις / Mustais

    Listen

  6. #6 ἄκεα / Akea

    Listen