Released: 2024
SELP 806 | EAN: 8018344198064 | 
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One year after his surprising debut, Agosta, the Catania musician-non-musician and Space Echo Records return to the point with “Reworks and Remixes”. Which from the very title disengages itself from the industrial ‘album+remix album’ chain and on listening reveals itself to be a record capable of moving, in total autonomy from its antecedent, on three different levels of reading. For, at its base, we would say, there is a much more stimulating idea than the simple compulsion from alternative versions, b-sides and so on.
Point 1, transfiguration. Because, contrary to the genre stereotype, the remix mode allows songs to express themselves in creative and experimental ways.
Point 2, the Rorschach Test. Because, on those songs, there is the personality, that is, the result of the cross-vision with experience, of the individual producers being measured against itself.
Point 3, the stage backdrop. That is, its ability to show a cross-section of the current electronic scene in Etna.
Agosta wanted some of the pillars of Catania’s black-minded electronic scene with him and, together with them, reinterpreted songs from his first album. The result is a work that is as multifaceted, in terms of the specific weight of the artistic individualities involved, as it is homogeneous, in their idea of a sound that is as physical as it is mental and, above all, in terms of a totally Mediterranean underlying taste with which every single track is imbued.Whether it is the pensive house of “Apple 65” or “Lady G” (Butterfly Agosta‘s Rework) as much as AN-AN‘s dub on “Varanni”, between Grace Jones and Adrian Sherwood, or Galathea‘s more psychedelic and twilight Trip-Hop on “Three Chestnuts”. The Shaft-esque swagger of Salvo Borrelli and Reverend James, the donwnbeat pop of “Cellars” by Go.Soul.Map. and the caress of “Hearing The Call” (Lady G In A Rainy Day Version) by The Invisible Session, in which spoken and what they once called nu jazz flirt.
CREDITS
Conceived and produced by Roberto Agosta for Space Echo RecordsProgramming, bass and keyboards by Salvo Bruno "Dub"
Recorded in Nicolosi/Catania at Salvo Dub Recording Studio
Tracks 01, 04, 07, 09, 10, 12 produced by Roberto Agosta
Track 02 produced by Salvo Bruno “Dub (Go.Soul.Map)
Track 03 produced by Massimo Napoli (Galathea)
Track 05 produced by Salvo Borrelli
Track 06 produced by Massimo Napoli e Roberto Agosta (ANAN)
Track 08 produced by Giacomo Cottone (Reverend James)
Track 11 produced by Luciano Cantone (The Invisible Session)
All tracks written by Roberto Agosta except “Hearing The Call” written by Luciano Cantone e Martin Paavilainen
Mixed and mastered by Marco Olivi