...and so the new mOAR subdivision of and/OAR starts off its 2008 CD
release schedule on a happy-go-lucky child-like note with Untree by Italian
project Mou, Lips! (Andrea Gabriele, from Pirandelo and formerly of Tu m')
with various tracks featuring Emanuela De Angelis, Stephen Vitiello, Jara
Queeto, Marita Cosma and Ivan Solano. Untree displays Gabriele's well
honed ability to weave a complex mix of seemingly incompatible elements,
instruments and musical influences into cohesive and unified song-like
structures while always keeping one root firmly planted in the soil of the
electronic avant garde. This is certainly an album that will keep revealing new
aspects of itself with each successive listen while inspiring a good mood to
shine through, even on psychologically cold and rainy days.mou, lips! was andrea gabriele and a project born out of his collaboration with emanuela de angelis in 2001.
A short live session and then the release in 2003 of Peanuts and shells geometria for the french label List, had soon mou, lips! an interesting prospect at an international level. Mou, lips! explored the modes of an organic, cinematic and enviromental electronic sound, in wich the progressions are embedded in apparently rarefied landscapes though wrapped in the sensation of the human presence, of a hovering feeling.
The sound lies between concrete music and an elegant electronic, contributing in a proffering an imaginary link wich leads to an environment between Sonig and the Mille Plateaux of Snd, where jim o’rourke more melanchonic and meteoropatic laptop stands out from the background.
Mou, lips! represented at best the emergence of an italian research territory in full transformation and redefinition, putting itself as a candidate among the next prophets of a possible "sweet new glitch"" (from Netmage04 catalogue)
