Name: Rimorso
Brand: Mai Mai Mai

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Bonus disc: No

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MDR58

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Black

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-08-12

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Standard:20

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5053760089810

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2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

MDRCD58

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2022-07-01

5053760089803

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Mai Mai Mai

Genre GB

Experimental / Avant-Garde / Industrial / Noise

Label GB

Maple Death

Maple Death Records is an independent record label founded by Jonathan Clancy in 2015. Originally based in Bologna, Italy, the label is now located in both London, England and Bologna. Maple Death Records is known for its commitment to showcasing unique and innovative music from a diverse range of artists.

The label has gained recognition for its distinctive sound and uncompromising approach to releasing music. With a focus on underground and experimental genres, Maple Death Records has become a platform for emerging talent as well as established artists who push boundaries.

Distributed by The Business and Republic Of Music, Maple Death Records continues to make waves in the music industry with its carefully curated releases. Whether you're a fan of *Jonathan Clancy* or other talented musicians on the label, you can expect nothing less than exceptional sonic experiences from Maple Death Records.

Repossessed by the past, bitten once again and forced to relive drama, history, memories, tradition and roots. A past that needs exorcizing, bending and re-imagining in order to move forward and depend on. This is Rimorso, Mai Mai Mai’s colossal mediterranean gothic album.

Known for his incredible blend of Southern Italian Folklore, industrial drone, proto-techno and punishing miasmic electronic music, Toni Cutrone aka Mai Mai Mai approached Rimorso with a clean slate. Following Nel Sud (La Tempesta International, 2019) and his mediterranean trilogy Theta (Boring Machines, 2013), Δέλτα (Delta) (Yerevan Tapes, 2014) and Φ (Phi) (Not Not Fun Records / Boring Machines, 2017) the Roma based noise artist recreated his spirits of the past by collaborating with musicians and ethnomusicologists that work on the present, on traditions that are still passed on and morphing continuously, healing our nostalgia for a lost future. Rimorso sheds the past heavy use of samples and sound manipulation in lieu of a human element: voices, percussion, lap steel guitar all embedded in a rich cultural heritage.

From ‘Fimmene Fimmene’, a recontextualized protest chant of female tobacco workers in Salento, sung majestically by Nidi d’Arac prodigy Vera Di Lecce, to ‘Nostalgia’ where Beirut born Youmna Saba literally soars over a futuristic Arabic melodrama on the verge of ascension, ‘Rimorso’ is an album that treads black waters, were phantoms dance ceremonially, tip-toeing around the heart. ‘Sind’ revisits one of Faraualla’s (Puglia female quartet known for their repertoire of a cappella vocal polyphonies) pieces with techno outsider Cosimo Damiano and the vital percussion of the Ars Ludi ensemble; ‘Mediterranean Gothic’ sees Mike Cooper’s tropical exotica plunge into the abyss, witch hymns under a black sun rising; ‘Musica Nova’ loosely based on Musicanova’s ‘Pizzica Minore’, features Nziria’s neomelodic stratifications (Tullia Benedicta) hovering on a slow thump chopper, a pulsating techno serenade; led by the visceral voice of Maria Violenza ‘Secondo Coro delle Lavandaie’, an obscure gem of Italian folk music, mixes hypnotic voodoo drumming and an enchanting choir filtered through a Southern Gothic lens; album closer ‘Antiche Memorie’ is heightened by maestro and longtime Battiato collaborator Lino Capra Vaccina (vibraphone, gong, percussion), purveyor of cosmic sheen and placid elegance. 

Rimorso is Mai Mai Mai’s new ritual, turning absence into presence, dismissing nostalgia for consummation, an immersion into the temporal disjunction we are experiencing through the essence of human fabric.

Rimorso

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