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Teho Teardo
Le Retour À La Raison

Album IT 2015 on Spècula label
Electronic, Rock and Soundtrack (Soundtrack, Experimental, Dark Ambient)

Villa Manin, the exhibition centre in Friuli, Italy, commissioned the music for three movies of the avant-garde photographer and director, so Teho created his music inspired from “La Retour à la Raison” (1923), “Emak Bakia” (1926), “L'etoile de Mer” (1928). This album is about a unique meeting with Man Ray. Unique because silent films directors are all dead! They disappeared ages ago and a possible way to get in touch with them again is looking for their bequest in the universe, their work shines like stars. Music is a constellation above a mysterious and seductive world and this album documents the meeting with Man Ray. This record it's not a soundtrack, you can't make a soundtrack for those movies, Man Ray hates soundtracks to the point he could easily kill you with his famous nailed flatiron. If there aren't chances to consider a soundtrack then another approach might be possible to establish a real dialog between images and sound and what happened here was an obscure rendezvous in the sky with the members of the anonymous society that inhabit Man Ray movies, ghosts, departed ladies, totemic figures, his friend in drag Rrose Sélavy... All of them were inspirational to find a sound that could establish a connection with a world which is no longer there, a world that probably never really existed even when those movies have been shot but we can still admire it on those incredible outstanding movies, so full of life, still true today. And music's unwritten law is truth. Joachim Arbeit (Einsturzende Neubauten), Joe Lally (Fugazi), David Coulter were involved during the recordings of this album Premiere took place at Villa Manin, the further shows at the Galway Arts Festival, Maxxi contemporary art museum in Rome and Museo del cinema in Torino.

Musicians

	Teho Teardo ep, *1966 IT baritone guitar, bass, bells, electric guitar, electric piano, ocarina, percussion, piano, synth, voice, album by
	Livia De Romanis vc, cello
	Stefano Azzolina viola
	Vanessa Cremaschi ed Elena De Stabile violin
	Joe Lally b, voc, *1963 US bass
	David Coulter perc, GB saw
	Marco Machera b, voc, bass
	Mirco Muner b, IT bass
	Andrea Molaioli , guitar
	Daniele Della Vedova , guitar
	Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo g, vl, IT guitar
	G.No b, guitar
	Giacomo Teardo , guitar
	Jacopo Scapigliati , guitar
	Joachem Arbeit , guitar
	Mario Sesti , guitar
	Roberto Maria Clemente g, guitar
	Steve Nardini voc, IT guitar
	Susanna Buffa , guitar
	Umberto Palazzo voc, g, *1964 IT guitar
	miSs xoX , IT guitar

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