THE PROJECT
"The album "Muqataea" is dedicated to my homeland and describes it through a point of view between reality and imagination. So I'm really excited that all the artists involved in the project of the album "Muqataea Reworks" have added their personal point of view through their music and creativity. I believe that art brings people together and so the collaboration between artists is very important in my opinion because can give beauty to our society through dialogue and cultural exchanges.
THE COMPOSER
Francesca Guccione
Francesca Guccione is an Italian composer and violinist. After graduating in Violin at the "A. Scarlatti Conservatoire", she got a Master’s Degree in Film and Media Scoring at the "L. Boccherini Conservatoire" and a Master’s Degree in Film Scoring at the "F. Venezze Conservatoire" with the final vote 110/110 summa cum laude. She played the violin in different cities around the world like New York, Toronto or Alexandria of Egypt. In 2021 she released her first album, “Muqataea”, under the artistic direction of the cellist and composer Giovanni Sollima and also a remix of “Rebirth”, a track by the French composer Hélène Vogelsinger. In 2022 she did a rework of "Hysope", a track by the composer Arandel.
With her music she tries to explore the chemistry between sound and image, taking her inspiration from the beautiful landscapes and colors of her homeland and from all the places she visited during her many travels. Her creativity is dreamlike and poetic, a doorway to inner worlds.
Her music is on Whales Records, InFinè Music and Little Symphony Records.
"From the very opening lines of slowly building recurring string progressions, complemented by deeper atmospheric treatments and triumphant piano notes, it is impossible not to compare this music to that of the dearly missed (and now three years departed) Jóhann Jóhannsson." - (Headphone Commute on Muqataea)
THE REWORK ARTISTS
Julien Marchal
Julien Marchal is a pianist, composer, producer, creator, curator and CEO of Whales Records. His music tastes and creations are eclectics even if he’s more known for his piano series call INSIGHT. He loves to collaborate that why you can listen to him on different musical genres. He created the band Lissom +with Ed Tullett but also did some remarkable collaborations with Steve Aoki and Robot Koch and was placed on different TV shows.
Robot Koch
Robot Koch´s music is a hybrid of modern classical and deeply atmospheric ambient music. It combines forward-thinking production with a sense of nostalgia which makes it equally timeless and current.
Hélène Vogelsinger
Hélène Vogelsinger is a french singer, composer and sound designer. In her modular synth project, she explores different places and connects with their energies to create unique and suspended moments. Her creative universe is poetic, spiritual and soul searching.
Throwing Snow
Throwing Snow’s four albums have made him a mainstay of fabric’s forward thinking Houndstooth label since 2014.
Snakes of Russia
As Snakes of Russia, Los Angeles based producer Joseph Holiday works hazy, dark sound design, low end rumble and rolling downtempo beats into tracks that evoke a dystopian landscape…creating cinematic instrumental electronic music that feels as timeless as it does current. His debut EP “At Home Alone With Lions” came in early 2020, followed by various singles, remixes and collaborations including the forthcoming “Alchemy” EP with German producer Robot Koch in Feb.
Frieder Nagel
German composer and newcomer Frieder Nagel is always luring his listeners into a mystical world, full of warm synths and detailed sound clusters. With only three ep´s released so far he has already collaborated with David August and Daniel Brandt (Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble), appeared on Boiler Room, played with the German Symphonic Orchestra and at the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg. In 2019 he composed the music for Don Juan Techno Club by japanese choreographer Fukiko Takase and for the interactive documentary Field Trip by Eva Stotz about Berlin´s abandoned airport Tempelhof. In the same year he produced the music video for Daniel Brandt´s Track Flamingo published by London based label Erased Tapes. Frieder Nagel remixed french superstar Rone in 2020 and delivered dj-sets for several radio stations such as Flux FM (Berlin), Ego FM (Munich) or WDR Cosmo (Cologne). During the pandemic he focused on ambient music and soundart installations. His latest work The Arrival in collaboration with acclaimed digital artist MAOTIK was premiered as part of a spectacular audiovisual liveshow at the Multiplica Festival 2021 in Luxembourg and was also showned at the Scopitone Festival in France.
Infralyd
Captivated by soothing melodies, spheric soundscapes, and fragile compositions, the Danish musician Infralyd operates within the realm of electronic minimalism, combining the structural elements of electronic music with the space and vulnerability of ambient and neoclassical music. The organic sound of Infralyd is the result of a daydreaming mind attracted to calm and beautiful things. A traditional Scandinavian upbringing alongside a deep fascination with natural phenomena and a tendency to linger in his thoughts are key aspects of Infralyd’s universe. All this coalesces into melancholic and atmospheric compositions while conveying a sense of familiarity, comfort and warmth.
Arandel
Arandel released his debut album ‘In D’ in 2010, and is considered by many to be an experimental classic. Loved by music collectors, DJs, and sample diggers alike, the release was a nod to the American composer and musician Terry Riley and received critical acclaim from the likes of The Wire, XLR8R, The Line of Best Fit and Finders Keepers’, Andy Votel. Four more studio albums followed; ‘Solarispellis’ (2014), ‘Umbrapellis’ (2015), ‘Extrapellis’ (2016) and ‘Aleae’ (2017) and Arandel also received blog success with his 2016 ‘Electronic Ladyland’ mixtape which focused on pioneers in electronic music and featured Suzanne Ciani and Wendy Carlos. Not content wandering through an Ali Baba's Cave of musical treasures, Arandel has invited artists from different universes and backgrounds to join him in his exploration. Guests who each bring their extreme musicality, sensibility/sensitivity, and faith in the project include classic pianist Vanessa Wagner, DJ and composer Flore, classical soloist Thomas Bloch, singer/songwriter Barbara Carlotti, cellist Gaspar Claus, guitarist Sébastien Martel, singer, comedian and composer Areski, pianist Wilhem Latchoumia, Ben Shemie - singer and guitarist of Montreal alt-rock unit Suuns, singer Petra Haden and folk singer and harpist Emmanuelle Parrenin. In 2020 he released the album ‘InBach’ and in the 2021 ‘InBach vol. 2’.
Maury111
Maury111 is a character created by the french singer, songwriter, and producer Benjamin Ruby. Bathed early on in a world of music thanks to a melomaniac father, Ruby sung as a soloist in the children’s choir of the Opera de Paris and went on tour, performing classical music all over the world until the inevitable teenage voice break. Further delving into this life of music, he learns guitar and bass, to later play rock, pop and jazz for different bands in Paris. His persona Maury111 reveals itself, during a moment of epiphany, while in a music retreat in the countryside of France organised with Facundo Rodriguez (Chien Méchant) and Basile Monsacré (Egregore), his two life-time friends and musical journey brothers ever since the opera’s choir. From then on, Maury111 blooms by producing introspective “mysticosmic” pop music in his studio in Berlin as well as playing excessively in Berlin and touring in France, Netherland, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Germany and South Korea. Fascinated by desert landscapes since his time in Joshua Tree, CA, Ruby travels in January 2020 to Morocco, staying with a Berber family on the edge of the Sahara, going on long solitary walks in the desert. The debut album “Desert Temple”, getting released one track at a time, month after month from June 2021 on, convey these experiences.
eeph
eeph is an electronica, downtempo artist from germany. eeph released music on labels like Café del Mar, Deep Heads, Sunset Waves and Prrrrrrr Records. Furthermore he created music for film and documentary like, “Devenire grand demain”, “Omogeneo” and “Shaped by the ocean”.
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