&, first production of the newborn Anomala Soundscapes wants to be a programmatic manifesto of what the label intends to realize. The debut album of a new label has the difficult task of giving the editorial imprint in one fell swoop. Vinyl was chosen as the format and split album as a formula. The format of the vinyl was not chosen for the alleged better listening quality compared to than other media, but rather and above all for to recover a certain now rare “listening ritual”. The & project was intended to be released as a vinyl record from its very origin. Each side separately presents the work of one of the two musicians, neither of whom had heard the work of the other until the release.

Who’ll frame my memories in ash Daniele Pecorelli

We are our consciousness, and our consciousness is the form and content of our memory. What happens to our memories the moment we die? They become an electrical residue that fades away. As we are conscious that our memory is falling apart, a new consciousness arises that in turn disintegrates into kaleidoscopic fragments until they dilate into the final moment of our recorded time.

Combustion Mark Schaub

Material, rough, sometimes unprejudiced, dark but carnival, tries to render the idea of transformation in an informal way without emotional variations. In particular chemical transformation, the allusion to fire is made explicit by the title. The transformation is an action of opposing forces and from the tension develops the passage that explores all the audible frequencies (even inaudible) trying to materialize the intimate tension of the matter and the dissolution of the same in the final suspended and almost incomplete.


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The first production of the Anomala Soundscapes label a split vinyl entitled ‘&’, one side for composer and pianist Daniele Pecorelli, other side for composer Mark Schaub. Pecorelli in the song Who’ll frame my memories in ash offers a sound journey that immerses the listener in an environment that gradually thins out, with echoes of sounds in the distance that gradually drift, and repeated moments of oblivion; Schaub, having abandoned the role of the dark ambient music project Maath, proposes himself with the song Combustion, and at times makes the sounds of a wild lagoon “real” and intriguingly immerses the listener in a world that turns out to be alien and disturbing at the time same.is extinct.
Marco Paolucci Kathodik

Now to end this episode on a very interesting way, I would like to let you know about the least commercial sounding music of this bunch. Daniele Pecorelli and Mark Schaub’s collaboration… but wow! This is avant-garde experimentalism at the top of its game, music that hangs more into the realms of sound art, ambience and interesting audioscapes than popular culture. It’s a huge trip though. With sightings of electric frogs, howling obscurities, nature sounds that feel unnatural and strange – creating the ideal base to have a different kind of an experience with. You can get this one on vinyl, which I believe is something beautiful to invest in.
“Yeah I Know it Sucks”

Debut for the new label Anomala Soundscapes, the split album “& ‘” creates an ideal sound bridge between two composers Rome based, active in the field of research, Daniele Pecorelli and Mark Schaub. The first, through the gradual expansion of the sound material contained in the Who’ll Frame My Memories suite, works by metaphors, ideally and effectively representing the idea of death, the dispersion of vital energy, and the persistence of memory. Everything here proceeds by accumulation, expansion of volumes, up to the moment of final disintegration. In Combustion, Schaub relies instead on impressionism to give life to a music that effectively links the sacred with the profane, the hermeticism of the alchemic tradition with an abstract model of classical composure. From the ensemble, derives a sound material full of suggestions and narrative cues, in a continuous succession of upward thrusts and descents to the underworld.
Massimiliano Busti - BlowUp Magazine

Prima produzione della label Anomala Soundscapes questo split intitolato ‘&’, un lato per uno tra compositore e pianista Daniele Pecorelli e il compositore Mark Schaub. Pecorelli nel brano Who’ll frame my memories in ash propone un viaggio sonoro che immerge l’ascoltatore un un ambiente che si dirada progressivamente, con echi di suoni in lontananza che gradualmente vanno alla deriva, e reiterati momenti di oblio; Schaub, dismessi i panni del progetto musicale dark ambient Maath, si propone con il brano Combustion, e rende a tratti “reali” i suoni di una laguna selvaggia e immerge in maniera intrigante l’ascoltatore in un mondo si scopre alieno ed inquietante al tempo stesso.
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Marco Paolucci - Kathodik Webzine