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Unfolk Roots: The Khene Suite

from Unfolk : : Teenage Monsters 1976​-​2020 by Unfolk

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Recorded by Marco Pompilio & Alessandro Monti.
Vintage stuff taken from "Du Globe" (1976) & "Washers" (1977) cassettes by Fungus and recorded 30 years before the actual release of the 1st Unfolk CD (2006), these pieces were an unconscious preview of the future project. In the mid-70s I received the "khene" as a present from a schoolmate: it was a bamboo mouth organ from Laos with a nice sound and wooden fragrance; I didn't know how to use it correctly at the time and we all thought it was an African instrument! These excerpts were recorded when I was at high school (16 & 17 year old) with a primitive equipment which gave the illusion of overdubbing, using 2 stereo cassette recorders simultaneously: the first one (my portable Superscope with built-in mics) played a basic track while I did a second part live to Marco's Philips recorder with 2 real mics. The 4-track cassette machines weren't available at the time, but the sound quality and stereo effect are still surprisingly good. The original cassettes included lots of crazy teenage experiments, surreal rap, monster tunes and early guitar inventions by Masi: they were carefully stored by Alieno DeBootes for more than 40 years and recently digitalized by the Archivist himself.
The title of the "Teenage Monsters" album was inspired by this epic track.

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from Unfolk : : Teenage Monsters 1976​-​2020, released January 9, 2021
Khaen, classical guitar, glockenspiel, percussion, final piano note & vocals: AM
Electric guitar, pedals & noise amp: Sandro Masi.

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Alessandro Monti under the Unfolk moniker released:
"Unfolk+Live Book", "The Venetian Book Of The Dead", "spiritDzoe" (on Diplodisc), "Intuitive Maps", "File Under Oblivion", "monti" (on MP& Records), plus: "Intonarumori: Ieri ed Oggi" (on ReR Megacorp), "Miniatures 2020" (on The 62nd Gramophone Co.), "Micro Culture" (on Nuova Explora).
Unfolk was also included in The Wire Tapper CD series. ... more

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