XX02: Maloberti - MARTELLATE. SCRITTI FIGHI. LYDIA MANCINELLI LEGGE MARCELLO MALOBERTI (excerpt A) by Xing

MARTELLATE. SCRITTI FIGHI 1990-2020. LYDIA MANCINELLI LEGGE MARCELLO MALOBERTI

LP on Xing (XONG collection XX02) out April 2021, order at https://www.soundohm.com/product/martellate-scritti-fighi

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Xing presents the artist record MARTELLATE. SCRITTI FIGHI 1990-2020. LYDIA MANCINELLI LEGGE MARCELLO MALOBERTI (HAMMERINGS. COOL WRITINGS 1990-2020. LYDIA MANCINELLI READS MARCELLO MALOBERTI), second release of the XONG series.

Italian actress Lydia Mancinelli, stage and life partner of the avant-guard author Carmelo Bene, reads the “written voices” of MARTELLATE,  a collection of impulsive written fragments by the visual artist Marcello Maloberti. The release is on white vinyl, in a limited and numbered edition, along with a series of collector's editions, with handwritten covers by Maloberti.

MARTELLATE. SCRITTI FIGHI 1990-2020 is a collection of the writings, in the form of slogans, which have accompanied Marcello Maloberti in almost thirty years of poetics. These epigraphs that range from poetry to irony, to the use of the spoken word, in a constant succession of moods and formal tones, represent the primordial moment of the artist's work, the most instinctive and sincere, in an open relationship with the reality that surrounds him. A self-portrait to be shared, a collective mirror, which is generated in the succession of written thoughts that burst onto the blank page: direct, frontal, cheeky. They stay and “hammer” your head. Each one is a curtain that opens.
“Having Lydia Mancinelli read these sentences is a kind of dream. Her ancient voice takes us back to Carmelo Bene's theater and these slogans - between the philosophical and the everyday - seem elevated to a royal status by her dismembered voice in the air.” Her reading is a minimalist, almost infinite rain of sentences. It results in a moment of suspension, an estrangement, as if we were on an invisible stage.

Xong is the name of the new collection produced by Xing, a vinyl-only record label of works by both Italian and international personalities linked to the variegated worlds of live performativity. The collection explores a geography of artists who present this sonic field as a platform to expand their staged worlds. "The space of the record" is given focus and amplifies their poetics as both a sonic and physical phenomenon.
Xong is a unique project that draws out divergent understandings of the performative and live arts, beyond genre and intersecting between different practices. Xong collects a series of original creations that constitute an expanded program. Each physical record is a numbered edition on white vinyl hosting the solidification of the gesture. A wave upon wave, a series of "Music-Non-Music" to actualize both the artists and listeners imagination.

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Texts by Marcello Maloberti. Read by Lydia Mancinelli. Mixed by Eugenio Mazzetto. Mastered by Tobia Bandini, Pasquale Savignano. Cover by Marcello Maloberti. Artwork by Xing. Printed by Elettroformati Milan.