Meanimal released on October 28

Very fast record (12 tracks for 18 minutes), minimal in song duration, but also an admixture among mean and animal, primitive, sometimes solar tunes.

There are 4 ska/reggae/dub tracks (Alaska, Anaconda, Kind Titan - hommage to Gentle Giant - and Epifonema), a pereubian waltz (Il Valzer di Paolo), avantprog (Gestalt, Roundabout), exerimental (Ammutinamento!, Glasgow Coma Score, Entropia), a strange stomp& harmonica endless startup (Catfight) and a drama number (Panic in the Elevator).

You can listen / download it directly from Bandcamp, Bittorrent (booklet included) or from Jamendo (no booklet).

Loki by Andrea Ferrantelli

My friend Andrea is a guitar/bass player and composer born in Turin and living in Helsinki. He started to play the guitar at the age of 17, in 1994.
He played in dozens of bands, ranging from Black Metal to Thrash, Technical Death Metal, Heavy Metal and Rock. Andrea recently started to play also the bass, both fretted and fretless.

He liked my intention to let replay Mjöllnir by (or with) other musicians (and change it if needed, according to their skills and attitudes), so he chose Loki. He first worked on a light keyboard + bass + drum version to add guitar layers, and I utterly remixed and deleted/changed some keyboars, to fit at the best Andrea valuable fretwork.

I'm really satisfied by this version of Loki, and Ferrantelli as well. He changed accents and mood, and even ranged into eastern scales, which is a common ground -as I indulged myself many times on it as well.
I believe it's very likely we'll further collaborate in next future.

Final track is already online on Andrea Ferrantelli MySpace page and Last.FM (in ./root: the Singles).

Dada (Cabaret Voltaire) is available now!

This record is a brief journey through Dada art movement. Opening track is dedicated to Cabaret Voltaire, a swiss nightclub where all started by a group of european artists. First founder, and subject of second track, was Hugo Ball (he wrote the small poem I-Zimbra, which was subsequently used as a lyrics by Talking Heads in their namesake song). Hence continues the portrait gallery of Dadaists, interrupted sometimes by three small tracks called Shiver.

To people with few, or no knowledge about dadaists, booklet here is strongly recommended.

Downloads:

Bittorrent
http://www.mininova.org/tor/13195590

Jamendo
http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/76024

Bandcamp
http://hoxvox.bandcamp.com/album/dada-cabaret-voltaire