- Artist
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- Mordecoli featuring Valerio Tricoli and Ecka Mordecai
- ReleaseProduct
- Château Mordécoly
- Label
- Alter
- Catalogue Number
- ALT71
- Release Date
- September 1, 2023
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Debut full length vinyl from the UK/Italian duo of Ecka Mordecai and Valerio Tricoli, working together as Mordecoli. Individually these two travellers have carved out a path of ghostly musique concrete (Tricoli) and textural cello wandering (Mordecai). Alter is proud to present the album Château Mordécoly a result of two musicians (and friends) coming together to explore the middle ground of their individual investigations. The results of a red wine induced residency at London’s Cafe Oto, Château Mordécoly is a panoramic audio field exploring both the physicality of sound, informed by the voice, cello and pictish harp of Mordecai, and the artificial manipulations of Tricoli’s revox tape machine. The delicate tension between the physical ‘real’ and the distortive ‘new’ leverages this release far beyond a tipsy residency and shifts it into a top tier electroacoustic take on the zeitgeist. Solo cello and voice appear rooted in the timbre of time. The magnetic tape is both a friend and covert manipulator. The physical elements open themselves to disfigurement as a means of propagating the fantastical audio that unfolds from the initial enquiry. There’s no witchery or wizardry on part of either player but rather a symbiotic passing of the baton as the line between the real and the non-real flow in and out of themselves. The results are at once sedate, shocking and subversive. Château Mordécoly is a disembodied sonic landscape; a phantasmagorical world of fantasy unfolds as the delicate beauty of Mordecai’s playing and singing is transformed into a playful and unusual landscape. Epoch’s are evoked as the visual stimuli resulting from these alchemical transformations conjure everything from a haunted house to the Middle Ages. At once sleek and modern mental images of a marriage between the ultra present and the deep vast past. A heavenly cloud unveils a clear symbiosis of the Italian church and all of its cobwebs frolicking amongst pagan Britain.
Digital Tracklist
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- PC World
- ReleaseProduct
- Infinite Dream Weapon
- Label
- Alter
- Catalogue Number
- ALT76
- Release Date
- October 6, 2023
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- Tom James Scott
- ReleaseProduct
- Nightshade
- Label
- Alter
- Catalogue Number
- ALT62
- Release Date
- September 1, 2023
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- Klara Lewis & Nik Colk Void
- ReleaseProduct
- Full-On
- Label
- Alter
- Catalogue Number
- ALT74
- Release Date
- June 30, 2023
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- Cassette
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- Chain of Flowers
- ReleaseProduct
- Never Ending Space
- Label
- Alter
- Catalogue Number
- ALT73
- Release Date
- May 26, 2023
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- Finlay Shakespeare
- ReleaseProduct
- Illusion + Memory
- Label
- Alter
- Catalogue Number
- ALT70
- Release Date
- April 28, 2023
- LP
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- ReleaseProduct
- Water Temple
- Label
- Alter
- Catalogue Number
- ALT69
- Release Date
- November 25, 2022
- LP
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- Muslimgauze
- ReleaseProduct
- Veiled Sisters
- Label
- Alter
- Catalogue Number
- ALT68
- Release Date
- October 7, 2022
- LP (special)
- CD