Canti illuminati

by Alvin Curran

Canti illuminati cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1982
  • Label: Fore
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 51:00
  • Community rating: 3.98/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Canti illuminati' layers choral voices, tape loops and electroacoustic processing into extended hypnotic drones. Alvin Curran draws on Central Asian throat singing traditions alongside minimalist repetition to create surreal, ominous soundscapes. The album remains a landmark in American experimental music of the early 1980s.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, choral, minimalistic, electronic, experimental, conceptual, minimal, ambient, long-form, piano, vocal

Tracklist

  1. Canti Illuminati [For Choir, Synthesizer, Piano And Tape]
  2. Canti Illuminati [For Voice, Synthesizer, Tape]

Credits

  • Alvin Curran - primary artist, voice, synthesizer, tape, piano
  • Edith Schloss - painting [outside cover]
  • Alessandro Bruno - chorus
  • Antonella Talamonti - chorus
  • Antonio Cesareni - chorus
  • David Thorner - chorus
  • Elisabetta Bordes-Page - chorus
  • Giorgio Caruano - chorus
  • Luca Miti - Chorus
  • Manuela Garroni - Chorus
  • Nicola Bernardini - Chorus
  • Pierluigi Castellano - Chorus
  • Sista Carandini - Chorus
  • Kicko Fusco - Engineer

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