Donato Dozzy & Daniele di Gregorio - Buchla & Marimba

Label // Maga Circe Musica
Catalogue // MCM01
Genre // Electronic
Format // LP
Release Date // 26th March 2021

• The first release from Maga Circe Musica, a new label endeavour between Donato Dozzy and Alicia Carrera
• Dozzy on modular gear alongside Daniele Di Gregorio, a virtuoso of the marimba and vibraphone
• Hypnotic mimimal works ranging from polymetric pointillism to West African cadences
• Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi

Master Italian minimalist Donato Dozzy meets percussionist Daniele Di Gregorio on the first trip for Maga Circe Musica, a new label endeavour between Dozzy and Alicia Carrera
‘Buchla & Marimba’ extends Dozzy’s increasingly experimental vectors into ‘floor-adjacent forms of rhythm-driven minimalism that hearkens back to Steve Reich’s phasing rhythmelodies and the kind of sublime experiments explored by Daniel Schmidt & The Berkley Gamelan, also converging influence from the jazz genius of Don Cherry and the organic electro-acoustic works of Jonathan Fitoussi.
But for all that wealth of influence and wide-ranging inputs, the results are effortless enjoyable and self-evident, rippling with a gentle, lysergic magick that percolates between the six parts, from the polymetric pointillism of ‘Sessione 1’, to the freckled lilt of ‘Sessione 2’, finding a spell-binding sort of West African cadence in ‘the 3rd, and practically dematerialising into stereo-pinging widescreen on the final two parts.

1. Sessione 1
2. Sessione 2
3. Sessione 3
4. Sessione 4
5. Sessione 5
6. Sessione 6
7. Sessione 7