{"product_id":"luciano-cilio-dialoghi-del-presente-lp","title":"LUCIANO CILIO - Dialoghi del Presente LP","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-page__abstract\"\u003eNaples, 1977. Luciano Cilio's sole recorded work is pure magic - four \"quadri\" where strings, woodwinds, wordless voices and solitary guitar trace the edges of silence. Closer to Arvo Pärt and Morton Feldman than to any Italian prog, yet entirely its own universe. Music that breathes, suspends time, breaks your heart without raising its voice. Decades ahead of its time. First ever remaster from the original tapes.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-page__abstract\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-page__description\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eFor the first time ever, \u003cem\u003eDialoghi Del Presente\u003c\/em\u003e is available remastered from the original master tapes. One of the most elusive, heartbreaking records to emerge from the Italian avant-garde of the 1970s - finally given the treatment it deserves. Luciano Cilio was a ghost even before he became one. Born in Naples in 1950, he moved through the city's artistic underground - collaborating with Alan Sorrenti, American singer-songwriter Shawn Phillips, experimental theater groups - always at the margins, always searching. A virtuoso guitarist, a self-taught composer, an architect of silences. He left behind only this single album before taking his own life at 33.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDialoghi Del Presente\u003c\/em\u003e (1977) exists outside of time. Produced by Renato Marengo, the record unfolds in four \"quadri\" - tableaux of impossible delicacy. Strings hover. Woodwinds sigh. A wordless female voice drifts through like fog. Piano notes fall into vast spaces. And always, Cilio's guitar - intimate, solitary, unbearably tender. This is music that breathes. Music where silence carries as much weight as sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eComparisons fail, but they help: the devotional stillness of Popol Vuh. The crystalline suspension of Arvo Pärt's \"Für Alina.\" The spectral beauty of Mark Hollis's solo work - recorded two decades later. Jim O'Rourke put it best: \"Y\u003cem\u003eou can feel in the music a sort of necessity that can rarely be found, like in This Heat's debut or Nick Drake's Pink Moon - this enormous weight bearing on its creator, the absolute need to exorcize it from his life.\u003c\/em\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe closing \"Interludio\" begins with Cilio alone, plaintive guitar in hand. Strings and woodwinds gather around him, then recede. And he is alone again. As he always was.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eSuperior Viaduct's edition reproduces the original sleeve design. A necessary document. Handle with care.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Superior Viaduct","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52933085135115,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0529\/3899\/7932\/files\/lucianocilio.jpg?v=1772105807","url":"https:\/\/bisaufsmesser.com\/products\/luciano-cilio-dialoghi-del-presente-lp","provider":"Bis Aufs Messer Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}