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01. Dino Spiluttini - Body at War
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02. Dino Spiluttini - Weakened Centurion
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03. Dino Spiluttini - Touch Isolation
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04. Dino Spiluttini - Rainbow Bridge
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05. Dino Spiluttini - Flesh Angel
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06. Dino Spiluttini - Blood Fountain
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07. Dino Spiluttini - Metal Harp
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08. Dino Spiluttini - Drugs in Heaven
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ARTIST
SPILUTTINI, DINO
TITLE
Heaven
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
EDITIONS MEGO
CATALOG #
EMEGO 266LP
EMEGO 266LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
10/11/2019
"
Heaven
is a work of contemporary church music. Centrally occupied with the subject of death, its conceptualization was catalyzed by
Dino Spiluttini
's discovering his mother's preparations both for her own death and for his. He arrived at her home in 2015 to be led into the local church and shown the two adjacent places she had reserved for their urns. The tracks on
Heaven
together consist of an analogously personal and anticipatory negotiation with death. Partly derived from organ recordings made in the same church, the album frequently enlists
Arvo Pärt
's compositional method of tintinnabuli. Aside from the thematic logic of its sacred associations, the method suits Spiluttini's tendency, in spite of heavy and dynamic passages, to minimize tonal complexity. His characteristic uses of gnashing bass, restlessly irregular pacing and serrated distortion return. This time, they combine with pads, harps, fluttering organs and swooping choirs. Track titles throughout
Heaven
conjure intense emotional conflicts, especially those arising from experiences of embodiment. Touch isolation is a term for the toxic masculine stigma against platonic touch between men. If such a reference on an album preoccupied with death and afterlife raises the question of whether Spiluttini considers any touch -- let alone platonic -- to be possible in
Heaven
, the title 'Flesh Angel' perhaps answers it. As with 'Body at War' and 'Weakened Centurion', such a title positions the agitation of its music among ongoing struggles with body acceptance. Meanwhile, 'Rainbow Bridge' recalls the 1980s prose poem promising an eternal reunion in death with one's beloved lost pets. In context, these various indices seem to capture the yearning speculation that, as the nexuses of experience, bodies are not discarded in death; on the contrary, they achieve a state of perfection.
Heaven
revolves within dramatic and ever-changing vignettes. As church music, it lacks real communal participation or fidelity to hymnal text. Instead, it must come to terms with negation and eternity as dependable threats to generational and spatial distance, to personal struggles with earthly embodiment and to the anxious, hyperactive navigation of identity in late modernity." --
Edward Trethowan
Front photos and layout by Dino Spiluttini. Recorded, produced and mixed by Dino Spiluttini. Mastered by
Rashad Becker
.
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