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Analogue and digital electronic avant-garde of central European tradition. Experimental, minimal, often atonal and harsh electronic music albums from 2009 to 2022.

DIGITAL REISSUES (Experimental Electronic Music)

LINGUA IN GIOVA (Tongue in a vice)

Lingua in giova - copertina

Digital reissue of the album originally released on April 30, 2011.

"Thursday that friar of S. Domenico, of Nola, a stubborn heretic, was burned alive in Campo di Fiore, with his tongue clamped in a wooden vice, for the very ugly words he said".

This was the text of one of the notices posted in Rome in February 1600, announcing the execution of Giordano Bruno. "Lingua in giova" is a tribute to the Dominican friar. The album's eight tracks resemble damp, dark frescoes depicting coercion in the broadest sense-as religions often tend to manifest themselves. A concept album performed in gloomy settings reminiscent of the dungeons of the Tribunal of the Holy Office. The spiritual tragedy of the friar from Nola is punctuated by unsettling voices manipulated in an extreme and obsessive manner, soft pads supported by imposing sub-bass, and a rhythm section that is constantly evolving yet strongly cohesive. One gets the impression that it was conceived and played in one breath, lost in a mystical ecstasy interrupted only by the macabre epilogue. The album's title alludes to the "torture within torture" inflicted upon the friar who was burned at the stake in Campo de' Fiori: a curved nail driven into his tongue to prevent him from spreading his "diabolical" beliefs.

  • Foi et raison [05:55]
  • Peregrino nolano* [08:09]
  • Geweither platz [04:34]
  • Leute [06:29]
  • Orfanezza istituzionale** [03:35]
  • Transustanziazione [04:34]
  • Zauberei [05:50]
  • Lingua in giova [04:30]
    Total time: [43:37]



Written, composed, performed, recorded and mixed by Paolino Canzoneri (2011 Palermo)

Some audio samples are taken from the following movies:
* Gian Maria Volontč and Mario Bardella from "Giordano Bruno" by Giuliano Montaldo (1973);
** Piera Degli Espositi from "L'ora di religione" by Marco Bellocchio (2002)


New mastering: Nicola Manzan
Self released
Digital reissue: 7 November 2021

Digital album

Lingua in giova live at the Bar-Libreria Garibaldi in Palermo (May 13, 2011)

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