Niton (band)
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Niton | |
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2013-2.jpg) Niton at Officine Creative Barasso | |
| Background information | |
| Origin | Chiasso, Switzerland; Varese, Italy |
| Genres | |
| Years active | 2012– |
| Labels | Shameless Records, Pulver und Asche Records, Floating forest records |
| Website | niton |
| Members | Zeno Gabaglio Luca Xelius Martegani El Toxyque |
Niton are a Swiss-Italian experimental electronic, ambient and noise-industrial band. They formed in 2012 and consist of Luca Xelius Martegani on analogue synthesizers, El Toxyque on amplified objects and Zeno Gabaglio on electric cello. The trio have released three albums via Pulver und Asche Records.[1] On various occasions the line-up has also included other musicians, video performers, writers and actors.
History[edit]
Beginning and eponymous album[edit]
The group met for the first time in autumn 2012 in the context of the fourth 'Drone night', an evening-happening of sound experimentation at the Officine creative in Barasso, in the province of Varese. The recording and subsequent selection of that performance was published in 2013 by the Swiss label Pulver und Asche Records, in the eponymous album Niton.
Tiresias[edit]
Tiresias is Niton's second album, released in 2015, by the Swiss label Pulver und Asche Records. Moving on from a theme of strong mythological evocation "Niton deliver their take on the end of the world in deep listening instrumental form"[2] with "a strong cinematographic appeal, which is empowered by symphonic treatments"[3] which leads to "an impressive experimental work featuring multiple sounds and noises. It all sounds like a sonic puzzle made of endless little pieces, which in the end create a compact sonic work".[3]
Since 2015 the band collaborates with video artist Roberto Mucchiut (also known as ROM) who takes care of the visual part of the Niton's video clips and live performances and that can be considered as the fourth Niton member.
Cemento[edit]
With their third album Cemento, released in 2021 by the Berlin-based label Shameless Records and Pulver und Asche Records, Niton rework sound materials collected over five years in different places and situations, such as theatres,[4][5] recording studios, Alpine artificial lakes,[6] Romanesque churches[7] and arthouse cinemas.[8] The album appears as "an unspoken narrative tie it all together. Clever usage of the textures means that the elements bounce into the infinite. Both beats and drone-like works come into the fray. Throughout it all they maintain a playful sensibility, akin a little bit to Matmos' work".[9] Cemento bring together "improv, noise, and jazz into a wild yet tasteful whole".[9]
The Wire about the album wrote "Their music has a real warmth, somewhere between the sylvan melancholy of a Popol Vuh soundtrack and the sweaty fug of an extended Can jam".[10]
Lineup[edit]
- El Toxyque – strings, wind instruments, springs, objects, electronics
- Luca Xelius Martegani – analog synthesizers, sequencers
- Zeno Gabaglio – electric and acoustic 5-string cello
Discography[edit]
Studio albums[edit]
- Niton (Pulver und Asche, 2013)
- Tiresias (Pulver und Asche, 2015)
- Cemento (Shameless, 2021)
Other releases[edit]
- Light Killer (Pulver und Asche, 2014) – (incidental music for the play by Magdalena Barile, Edinburgh Fringe, 2014)[11]
- Serote in Interactions: A Guide to Swiss Underground Experimental Music (Buh and The Wire, 2019)
- Maas in Make Some Room: Electronic Relief in Switzerland (ClubCultureCH, 2020)
- A mano a mano, Luca Pedroni and Niton (Floating Forest, 2020)
References[edit]
- ↑ ""Serote" by - The Wire", The Wire
- ↑ "Niton – Tiresias". freq.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-01-02.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Diaries, Inferno Sound (July 15, 2015). "Niton – Tiresias (CD Album – Pulver And Asche Records)".
- ↑ "A rivedere le stelle". LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura. Retrieved 2023-01-02.
- ↑ "Beckett Sounds at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano!". cargocollective.com. Retrieved 2023-01-02.
- ↑ "Naufragi e visioni – Concerto Niton – RO-M Roberto Mucchiut". robertomucchiut.com. Retrieved 2023-01-02.
- ↑ "Monadia". RSI Radiotelevisione. Retrieved 2023-01-02.
- ↑ "Niton | IOIC". ioic.ch.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Niton – Cemento". November 1, 2021.[dead link]
- ↑ "The Wire Tapper 59 - The Wire". The Wire Magazine. Retrieved 2023-01-02.
- ↑ "Light Killer – 2015 ‹ Charioteer Theatre". www.charioteertheatre.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-01-02.
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