SP09 MARCO FUSINATO – Ambianxe
Pressing #01 in an edition of 250 copies on 180 gram virgin black vinyl

A live LP of incendiary concréte guitar shards. Two live sets from SuperDeluxe Tokyo. Imagine Derek Bailey slamming his guitar into the circuitry of David Tudor and the subsequent brawl. Polite applause please. This is the sound of Caravaggio.

'Desecration of the note, tone and timbre of the guitar purposefully undermines the instrument's iconography as a phallic avatar of Americana. The cover image of Ambianxe, Caravaggio's The Lute Player (1595-96) reaches further into the instruments past incarnations as a symbol of youth, class and virtuosity... Fusinato has identified the Lacanian jouissance that runs concurrent with the anomalous post-Cagean world. In listening we are lifted from the day-to-day noise of society and repositioned into an analytical and intimate, yet sublime space, questioning the tactile sensation of sweeping frequencies and deciphering semingly formless sound structures. Put to a test of sensual assault and dropped into a pit of unreconisable, distorted crunch, one finds oneself barred from the recognition and relief of the funky pop song or the false sense of security installed by the enveloping blanket of supermarker Muzak. Ambianxe may only be a mediated recording of such things, but the significant placing of such a record in the technocratic world of music production and distribution highlights the artist's recognition of his place within global media, post-millennium' – Nik Tammens, Un Magazine

'...Whatever music is or isn't, it certainly does not have to be as relentlessly deafening as Marco Fusinato's barrage, which was about as pleasant as being attacked by a squadron of F/A-18s...' – Anna Schwartz Gallery

'Marco Fusinato's work is a series of propositions that question and re-configure accepted cultural forms and concepts, laying bare their construction, re-using them in particular contexts, exploring how those worlds are made...' – Sarah Cottier Gallery


Track listing :

Side One: 24th of January (10.33)

Side Two: 25th of January (13.34)


Marco works outwards from his home in Melbourne, Australia. Primarily a visual artist he produces artwork through the employment of an open methodology, avoiding practice riddiled with formal desicion making. He has been working within the fields of music for a number of years, producing devestating torrents of piercing guitar sput.




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