Labels: Oltrarno Recordings
Review by: Captain Fidanza
How about a round of applause for that?
First of all, the artist is called Ing.
Second of all, the album title is the artist’s surname with the word Land tacked onto the end of it.
Third of all, the bracketed section of the album title contains the words The Last Tree.
Put them all together and what do you have?
You have glory.
The email sent to Collective reliably informs the reader that Ing Ciapetti is already a member of Raccoglimento Parziale, which is fantastic enough, but it then goes on to explain that the recording of this album took two years as Ing walked around Italy and Germany (and presumably also Switzerland or Austria) with a portable recording studio. I can only assume that Ing pressed the play and record buttons simultaneously on the recording studio whilst still standing in his front garden and didn’t turn the thing off until he had recorded a million hours of sound, which he then masterfully edited together including various extended drone sequences just for good measure.
The result is an extraordinary melange of sounds which makes me truly proud that on June 23rd I put a cross in the box marked Remain a Member of the European Union.
If you put a cross in the other box, you are a twit and not worthy of listening to this marvellous recording.