LUCIANO CILIO Dell Universo Assente LP *Amazing & BRILLIANT * SEALED REISSUE 2lp

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NICE SEALED REISSUE PRESS copy of this  lp on the Schachtel Records  label() from 2013

This record is so amazing it's impossible to find the words for it... A fave lp over here for awhile now...

could be classified as 'classical'...but goes way beyond... Here are some of the notes written by Jim O'Rourke:

“Luciano Cillio (sic) seems to have released an album almost by accident, spirited away from him as he slept.” So wrote Jim O’Rourke in the liner notes for a limited edition reissue of an album made in 1977 by an obscure Italian musician composer named Luciano Cilio back in 2004. It was the lone album that Cilio ever released, and he took his own life in 1983, at the age of 33. It’s not a casual assessment by O’Rourke, as it actually suggests the deep level of intimacy of Cilio’s sound.

That reissue reinforced that closeness. Originally entitled Dialoghi Del Presente (translation “Dialogues of the Present”) but retitled Dell’Universo Assente (“The Absent Universe”), it looked like a blank white cover. Only when held in your hands and inspected closely did the near-invisible cover image appear, a hand-drawn spiral in light silver ink. That CD reissue quickly disappeared, but thankfully it now receives a wider reissue some ten years on, both on CD and vinyl from the meticulous Italian label, Die Schachtel.

It’s hard to draw an exact parallel to Cilio’s music. O’Rourke triangulates it somewhere between Nick Drake’s Pink Moon, Bill Fay’s Time of the Last Persecution and the debut album from This Heat. But in its punctilious attention to acoustic instrumentation in space, Dell’Universo Assente comes closest to approximating what the next Mark Hollis album might have sounded like, had Hollis continued along Laughing Stock’s and his 1998 self-titled album’strajectory, moving away from words and song, ever closer to a distilled sound couched in silence. The effect of Cilio’s music reminds me of Jess Harvell’s line in the above review, stating “how startling, isolated moments of sound, or a formless wash of sound, can wring emotions out of listeners as powerfully as any conventional melody.”

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Cover looks great under the shrink..with lightest  (EX++) 

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