Rotta, by Valentina Magaletti

Rotta

by Valentina Magaletti

supported by

more...

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

£7 GBP or more
Subscription

Subscribe now to receive all the new music VALENTINA MAGALETTI creates, including 7 back-catalog releases, delivered instantly to you via the Bandcamp app for iOS and Android. You’ll also get access to subscriber-only exclusives. Learn more.

Subscribe Now £5 GBP/month or more
Limited Edition 12"
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Issued in a limited edition of 300 copies on 'coral pink' vinyl (Pantone170 C)

Includes unlimited streaming of Rotta via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Sold Out

	1.	Part One 13:26		buy track
	2.	Part Two 14:07		buy track

about

“Rotta”, a work for percussion and electronics, draws upon Magaletti’s enduring, exploratory pursuit of ecstatic ritualism through sound and joins her growing body of efforts, begun with 2020’s “A Queer Anthology of Drums”, that encounters her working as a solo performer, among most challenging creative positions for an improvisor. Recorded in a single take within the nearly empty void of Cafe Oto in London, during late October of 2020 - one of a handful of months between the UK’s first and second lockdowns - “Rotta” encounters Magaletti’s occupying an explicitly experimental realm, weaving a remarkable tapestry of polyrhythms from behind the kit into the ambience of the room and further electronic interventions.

Deeply emotive and cathartic, drawing upon its title’s double meaning in Italian - “broken” and “route” - the double side long piece displays intense virtuosity and direct, real-time immediacy, balanced against the unmistakable presence of vulnerability and risk; profoundly human and expressive cries sent through Magaletti’s hands, amplified by skin, wood, and spun brass. Played against bristling textures of electronics, complex rhythms allude to the utterances of vocal language and speech, staggering and dancing toward deeper meanings that only the beat can express.

Belonging to the sinfully underrepresented discipline of solo percussion within recordings of experimental music - contemporary or otherwise - Blume Editions is thrilled to present Valentina Magaletti’s “Rotta”, an immersive expanse of sonorous texture, ambience, and rhythm, cohesively bound at the borders of freely improvised noise.

Issued in a limited edition of 300 copies on 'coral pink' vinyl (Pantone170 C), with liner notes by Bradford Bailey, its deeply intimate sense of space, tension, and dynamics focus the lens on one of the most dynamic artists working today

credits

released October 18, 2022

Since its founding back in 2014, Blume Editions has carved a unique place in cultural landscape, issuing free standing works, spanning the historical and contemporary, that represent singular gestures of creativity within the field of experimental sound. Joining their broad efforts in building networks of context and understanding that already includes the efforts of Werner Durand, Bruce Nauman, John Butcher, Jocy de Oliveira, Mary Jane Leach, Julius Eastman, Alvin Lucier, and others

license

about

VALENTINA MAGALETTI London, UK

Valentina Magaletti is a drummer, percussionist and composer whose goal is to strategically enrich a folkloristic and eclectic palette through endless listening and experimentation with new materials and sounds. She works and performs with many artists including: NicolasJaar,MariaChavez,Moin,Jandek,Sakini, Alpha maid,Mica Levi,Lafawndah, Sampha,Graham Lewis,Zongamin,Delphine Dora, Upsammy etc… ... more

valentinamagaletti.com

Recommendations

shows

May 10

Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)

London, UK
May 24

Associazione Culturale Variante Bunker

Turin, Italy
Jun 4

Sogetsu Hall

Tokyo, Japan
Aug 28

JAZZ:RE:FOUND FESTIVAL 2024 | FULL PASS

Cella Monte, Italy

contact / help

Contact VALENTINA MAGALETTI

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

VALENTINA MAGALETTI recommends:

INTIMATE IMMENSITY
by TOMAGA

The last, outstanding release of the London based experimental duo ), accomplished just before Tom’s passing in August 2020, is the distillate of two years of new creative enhancement. VALENTINA MAGALETTI
go to album

If you like Rotta, you may also like:

hybtwibt?
by Space Afrika

supported by 30 fans who also own “Rotta”

i haven't been through what you've been through, but i want to understand everett
go to album
Living Torch
by Kali Malone

supported by 30 fans who also own “Rotta”

My heart is beating slower and faster at the same time kwellou
go to album
Rhapsodia / Battements solaires
by Michèle Bokanowski

supported by 24 fans who also own “Rotta”

Intoxicating, looped orchestrations from within the synthetic pulse. Michael J Bates
go to album
bivouac of the avant-garde: contemporary minimal, electronic and experimental music, vol.2
by Difficult Art And Music

The 17 mindbending songs on this compilation represent minimalist experimental music at its best, a collage of blips and static. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 3, 2022
go to album
No Base Trio
by No Base Trio

featured on Bandcamp Radio Jul 14, 2020
go to album