Testa, Antonio

Antonio Testa is an Italian musician, percussionist and producer .
He specialises in organic sound and the creation of musical atmospheres through the use of a vast array of mostly native and shamanic instruments, together with his own creations made from organic and recycled materials.
Antonio has been active in the field of contemporary music since early 80’s working as a percussionist specialising in tribal and Afro-Caribbean rhythms, etno-ambient and world music. An artist who is constantly working to expand his knowledge of ethnomusicology and the curative powers of sound, his music is used widely for healing and various types of therapy sessions, also used for films,documentaries, exhibitions, TV ads and theatre play.
Antonio’s versatility as an artist has meant that despite being essentially an organic ambient artist he has, through the course of his career, also performed regularly with artists within the contemporary, etno-ambient and dance music scene to create memorable synergies of organic and electronic.
Label: ExperimenTribe
Testa, Antonio
Alio Die + Antonio Testa - Reverie

Artist: Alio Die + Antonio Testa
P:  2012

Rêverie is the third collaboration between Antonio Testa and Stefano Musso after ten years from their last cd together "Prayer for the Forest",    with this new potion the duo explore different slow-motion athmospheres, playing a wide range of acoustic instruments,and distilling healing sounds,that naturally relate with music-therapy.
An album for the soul and the love of being in its entirety. Airy and suspended, "Rêverie" is inductive music for light-hearted moods . Over any siege of thought.
The cd comes in a refined 6 panel digipack.

14,90 EUR
 
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Antonio Testa + Michel Moglia - Forget the Past

Artist: Antonio Testa + Michel Moglia
P:  2013
He may be best known for his ethno-ambient collaborations with Alio Die, but he has also released a diverse variety of solo ambient music on such labels as Hic Sunt Leones, Faria and Emit. Testa's collaborator Michel Moglia, credited here with fire organ, flute and drones, will be a new name to most.
Often ambient recordings pursue a single sub-genre or niche -- dark ambient, ethno ambient or drone, for example -- and stick faithfully to it. Forget the Past exhibits a pleasing diversity, with plenty of gently atmospheric stretches, rthythms that sometimes fade out and at other times build to a wicked trance churn. The sound is clean, yet derives from a full list of natural and organic sound source, and a diverse set of field recordings.
One track lays gritty, hallucinogenic flute lines over a slow-swooping psychedelic rhythm mechanism and incantatory female whispers and recitations like an overheard magic spell. Another mixes bird sounds and subtle electronic atmosphere with distantly echoing percussion, creating something like a soundtrack to a lost film by Alejandro Jodorowsky. Percussion with a tribal or ethno flavor is used in an unusual way, not to fake a specific brand of exoticism, but to create a sense of something both intuitively familiar and also strangely foreign.
Forget The Past covers a lot of sonic ground and a broad range of moods, but it's always unpredictible and fresh, while remaining smooth, introspective and restrained. We're very proud to bring this recording to Hypnos listeners, and trust that the sample clips will convince many of you to give this a full listen.

13,90 EUR
 
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