Simone Broglia (Mescalina.it)
"The main theme is the voice, the cornerstone of the entire album: the voice is the very physical presence of the artist... a research on sound, on dynamics, on vocal timbre, on theater, on poetic text, on aesthetics, and on the body."
RDM Records
5/8/20081 min read
"Aisthànomai, the second album by the vocalist Romina Daniele, comes out following her receipt of the Stratos Award as a young artist. It is certainly not an easy and agile listening album; on the contrary, it puts us in front of a complete experimental project. It is precisely this structural rather than conceptual aspect that strikes the listener in the first place. The substantial booklet with the detailed exposition, on an aesthetic-theoretical level, of the work and the artistic choices denotes a preparation made of study that undoubtedly becomes one of the most characterizing traits of Romina Daniele's work.
Her previous album, Diffrazioni Sonore, was concentrated heavily on pure vocal experimentation. In this Aisthànomai, we can see the deepening of a studio work developed in different artistic fields ranging from theater, of which Daniele adopts a recitative approach, to aesthetics, of which she examines a profound philosophy of art, up to poetry. In addition to these aspects, which are certainly an important contribution to the structure of the album, the musical and vocal components remain fundamental.
The first is based on electronics: concentrating on the sound, it is a work about frequencies, often about very low-frequency sound waves, which play an important role at a perceptive level. The main theme, however, is the voice, the cornerstone of the entire album: the voice is the very physical presence of the artist. If the voice is the physical presence, then the album presents a split, divided, and recomposed consciousness, separated by frequencies, capable of expanding, stretching, smoothing, and sharpening in a very small space. A consciousness and voice that breaks and, through digital processing, is taken up and united with non-vocal electronic parts. Romina Daniele presents us with a research work that leaves us deeply satisfied: a research on sound, on dynamics, on vocal timbre, on theater, on poetic text, on aesthetics, and on the body."
