Vincenzo Notaro (Sapere in Campania) — Jan 25, 2016
An excellent overview of carrier timeline up to the dual release of Spannung and Absence at the end of 2015. "A research, that of Romina Daniele, that we can lightheartedly define as technically solid, critically complex, philosophically profound and, above all, with a load of emotional poignancy..."
RDM Records
1/25/20162 min read
"There reaches us from Milan the communiqué relative to the latest musical labors of the most articulate and extraordinarily lyrical voice, as well as technical, born under the shadow of Vesuvius: that of Romina Daniele.
Debuting in 2005 with Diffrazioni Sonore (2010, RDM), a concrete disc for solo voice, she won the Demetrio Stratos International Prize for vocal research; she published in 2008 Aisthànomai, her second disc for voice and electronics, entered since 2010 into the RDM catalog, a label that was born with her collaboration to favor research and techno-aesthetic autonomy. Since 2008 she holds a doctorate in historical-artistic assets with a cinematographic specialization; she passed to studying music technologies at the Conservatory of Milan. Between 2010 and 2011 she published the books: Poesie 1995-2005 (bilingual Italian and English edition); Il dialogo con la materia disintegrata e ricomposta, un'analisi di Thema (omaggio a Joyce) di Luciano Berio; Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, il luogo della musica nell'audiovisione. From 2005 to today, she has gathered—as producer, composer, and writer, performer and vocalist for extended voice and electronic music, as well as a passionate blues singer—institutional recognitions and prizes (finalist at the Premio Nazionale delle Arti, Prize for musical experimentation promoted by the Centro Musica Contemporanea of Milan), meriting the national and international attention of the public and press.
But we come to the current releases. Astride the end of 2015 and the beginning of 2016, Romina delivers to the presses no fewer than two works: Spannung (a monumental triple solo album) and Absence (under the name Sheen, in collaboration with Lorenzo Marranini).
Spannung (a German term that stands for 'tension') is her third solo album, a triple audio CD between voice and electronics, textuality and improvisation, soloistic recordings and with the band, extended vocals and blues. As reported in the communiqué: 'The project developed starting from 2009. In the same period, the book Voce Sola, saggio intorno al discorso vocale(released in 2016) was written, which collects and expresses, at all levels, the passion and the uninterrupted urgency for the opening and the research around the authentic problem of being that we ourselves are and that we go searching for: that which by necessity goes for our very being in being itself, the putting into play of every comma of us in the world before it goes in vain. The voice is that which was there in origin, a question of the body and of thought, centrality and fulcrum, and there do not exist other places or sounds of the genre. Therefore, music too is an essential act regarding apprehension for man and his production.'
Absence is conceived and developed from the collaboration between Romina and Lorenzo Marranini (co-founder of RDM editions, a multi-instrumentalist active with various underground bands during the 2000s between Dublin and Milan, of a rock, post-rock, and folk-blues matrix). Of the duo Sheen, Lorenzo composes the electronic musics and plays bass and guitar, while Romina vocalizes texts and sounds, re-composes the structures, mixes, and edits. The album is born from a poem by Romina, Assenza (o soglia del mio dolore), published in 2011 in Poesie 1995-2005, crucial in all of her production: 'Absence is the lack of authenticity in the world before which research more proper is urgent and necessary.' Regarding their works, we tell you nothing other than where to find them: discs of this genre are by now so rare in Italy that they demonstrate simply that it is still possible to do artistic research with authenticity. A research, that of Romina Daniele, that we can lightheartedly define as technically solid, critically complex, philosophically profound and, above all, with a load of emotional poignancy and an inspiration so strong as to turn out magmatic."
Vincenzo Notaro with Saperincampania.it
