XX05: Luciano Maggiore - Very cheap non-human animal imitations - Dwarf Lemur - excerpt side B 1 by Xing

Luciano Maggiore - Very cheap non-human animal imitations
LP on Xing (XONG collection XX05) out June 2022, order at https://www.soundohm.com/product/very-cheap-non-human-anim and at https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=11867&menu=2
Collector's edition available at https://www.soundohm.com/product/very-cheap-non-human-anim-1 and at https://shop.flash---art.it/products/luciano-maggiore

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Xing presents the artist record Very cheap non-human animal imitations by Luciano Maggiore, fifth release in the XONG series. The white vinyl LP is in a numbered edition of 150 copies, including a collector's edition of 33 copies, each accompanied by an animal drawing traced on carbon paper.

"Very cheap non-human animal imitations" amicably mimics the wonderful presentations of songs from birds and other protagonists of the animal world, made available by the ornithologist and publisher Jean-Claude Roche in the 1980s. “The recordings were made in 2021 on the sofa at home, with an old tape recorder. Without trying to refine a vocal technique, I relied on the perceived timbral closeness I had with some of the non-human animals that I imitated. I hope that soon, as the world moves in an anti-speciesist direction, the naïvety of this work will become an outrageous homage to a different present.”

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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Voice and recordings by Luciano Maggiore. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. Drawings by Luciano Maggiore. Artwork by Xing. Printed by RAND Muzik Leipzig.