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DREAM WEAPON RITUAL - EBB & FLOW

Year: 2015
Record label: Boring Machines

Formed in November 2006, Dream Weapon Ritual is the duo of Simon Balestrazzi and Monica Serra.
They play free-form music that draws equally from droning electronica soundscapes and imaginary folk visions. Simon Balestrazzi is an electronic/electroacoustic composer and sound artist active since the 80's. He released many albums and performed live around Europe under various names. Monica Serra is a talented actress whose artistic research led to double as vocalist since 1999. Both are members of the long-lived Italian cult band T.A.C. (Tomografia Assiale Computerizzata). Monica primarily sings and plays kaoss pad, while Simon primarily plays laptop and various small stringed instruments, although both also employ old synthesizers and various electronics, amplified sound objects, toys, live sampling tools, small percussion, and whatever they can get their hands on.
Togheter as Dream Weapon Ritual they released their music through Radical Matters, Old Europa Cafe and Magick With Tears.

Ebb & Flow is their latest album since 2011 and it’s another step forward in their imaginary blend of the archaic and the modern. Togheter with the core duo, Ebb & Flow sees contributions from M.S.Miroslaw (sacred horse skull), Massimo Olla aka Noisedelik (chalumeau), Paolo Sanna (various percussions), Donato Epiro (flutes), Antonio Gallucci of Architeuthis Rex (guitar, percussions).

SIMON BALESTRAZZI & Z'EV - REVERBALIZATIONS

Year: 2014
Record label: Boring Machines

Z’ev and Simon Balestrazzi are two masters of the industrial and post-industrial sound.
The first inventing his own world of self made metallic percussions, the second spreading the seeds of the industrial noise pollinated with electronica and future folk forms through his various outputs, T.A.C. (Tomografia Assiale Computerizzata), Dream Weapon Ritual and Candor Chasma.
This record takes shape from several encounters between the two. A Z’ev live recording in Cagliari, Sardinia from 2007 is the starting point of this collaborations. The recordings where made in a suggestive former mine called Cavità delle Cinque Colonne where Z’ev performed.
In their following encounters, Balestrazzi and Z’ev edited the piece, added new parts and finalized this fifty minutes of music.
Cavernous rumbles at times become violent hammering, with layers of subtle feedbacks swirling in the air. This six parts are sonically immersive, a phisical journey into the realms of the (literally) underground, transformed into a sensorial voyage.

SIMON BALESTRAZZI - THE SKY IS FULL OF KYTES

Year: 2012
Record label: Boring Machines

The newest solo record from Simon Balestrazzi is a three piece worth almost an hour of electroacustic artisanal soundcraft.
The first track “Under Pressure” oscillates in between ritual ambient and memories of an industrial landscape, while “Persistence of Memory” features a slightly aggressive sound, closer to the metallic fences of the industry.
The third track, “The Sky is Full of Kytes” starts with spacey atmospheres only to become a claustrophobic downward spiral of thundering electricity which resolves in a sea of buzz and feedbacks.
All sounds were made processing sources from self-built and modified instruments, keeping the sound heavy and thick with an almost “live” feeling.