Metaphysical Graffiti, by Loris Cericola

Metaphysical Graffiti

by Loris Cericola

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Metaphysical Graffiti is the new album by underground maverick and DIY mad-scientist Loris Cericola: musician and videoartist based in Montecosaro, Italy. Besides his activity with Weird Tapes Records and Studio as well as with his multidisciplinary and audio-video collective Cerchio23, he has been the founder of projects such as Spirale and Vacuum Templi.

Best described as an obscure, dadaist sound collage, the album was realized entirely by experimenting with an array of tape cut-ups and analog sound manipulation techniques. A set of live improvisations performed with an assemblage of 4-tracks tape recorders, testing the possibilities offered by the textural audio qualities of cassettes.

With an imagery shaped by Ed Wood-style geographic and fictional tropes, Metaphysical Graffiti stands as an aural alternative to a subcultural cave painting. The album is an ill-defined conglomerate of unintelligible folklore, flimsy remote voices and phony, signal-like transmissions. A fragmentary listening conjuring the instability of shortwave explorations and the ominous vibes of waking up in the middle of the night after falling asleep in front of a television in an unfamiliar locale.

The samples and soundbites emerging from the minimal tracks’ backbone originate from a careful collection built through time by the musician and is composed of miscellaneous forgotten sales bin recordings, abstruse midnight home movies and haphazard library music pieces. Although the ten songs show a tendency towards supernatural, at times eldritch overtones, the work is surprisingly balanced by a direct simplicity. An atmosphere crafted through delicate distension of time and scattered synth themes.

For the most part, Metaphysical Graffiti builds on liminal ambiances reminding of the early James Ferraro and Joel Vandroogenbroeck’s "Biomechanoid", crafting a long moment of discontinuous suspension akin to slow opium phantasmagorias. A space crawling with dimensional spooks drawn in sedative-induced reveries and practical-effects era delusions.

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released June 17, 2022

Loris Cericola: 4-track tapes, reel-to-reel.
Recorded at Weird Tapes Studio.
Mastered by Loris Cericola at Cerchio 23 Studio in 2021.
Artwork and design by Nicola Tirabasso.

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