Lettera 22
Lettera 22 is a new project from Riccardo Mazza and Matteo Castro wich borns in the deep north east of Italy. Influenced by the contest of their everyday living in a place compressed between countries, mountains and factories, their sight points directly to men, machines, fields.
Lettera 22 is a new project from Riccardo Mazza and Matteo Castro wich borns in the deep north east of Italy. Influenced by the contest of their everyday living in a place compressed between countries, mountains and factories, their sight points directly to men, machines, fields.
Salvado
*300 copies limited release* Recorded during two days in the spring of 2022, Salvado sees Lettera 22 go all in musique concrete. One single long tape loop worming its way around a room through three reel recorders, only sparingly tampered with in the process. The result is far from uneventful or passive though, as all the ghosts in the old machinery seem to come alive. An album perfect for nighttime immersion. Loud playback recommended.
Exposition of Cloves
*Edition of 300* Exposition of Clove is the new fast electro-acoustic album by the duo of Matteo Castro and Riccardo Mazza. Hailing from the farthest North-East glacial tip of Italy, Lettera 22 utilize elements of musique concrete sound sources, delicately sampled, looped and edited; resulting in 5 very subtle and rich compositions of textured noise and field recordings via analogue tapes and feedback.
Negative Tongue
Reissue of the double cassette releases in 2010 on Second Sleep, by the duo of Matteo Castro and Riccardo Mazza. Hailing from the farthest North-East glacial tip of Italy, Lettera 22 utilize elements of musique concrete sound sources, delicately sampled, looped and edited; here is a heavy focus on textures and harsh noise with bouts of restraint and full assault, as usual via analogue tapes manipulation and feedback.
Surface Ego
*In process of stocking* Second Sleep presents Surface Ego by Lettera 22. Lettera 22 a project from Riccardo Mazza and Matteo Castro wich borns in the deep north east of Italy. Influenced by the contest of their everyday living in a place compressed between countries, mountains and factories, their sight points directly to men, machines, fields. Really dinamic structures composed by tape loops, field recordings and feedbacks are destroyed by a violent muscular manipulation. What was concrete b…
Legacy Map
** Edition of 150 copies ** Sprung from the eclectic new wave of Italian noise and industrial music, Lettera 22 is a duo consisting of Matteo Castro and Riccardo Mazza, based in Vittorio Veneto. Their noise is dynamic and creative, balancing in the field between contemporary art music and harsh noise brutality: gritty, textured concrete sounds and field recordings are recorded and manipulated with analogue tape, drenched in tape hiss and finally crushed by a wall of distorted electronics and fe…
Grand Piano
Failed plans generate frantic electroacoustic responce. Edition of 100 Lettera 22 use extreme textures and dynamics to build up high levels of abusive tension, only to send them crashing down in a cacophony of broken beer bottles and urban scrap, leaving behind a skeleton of seething silence and tape hiss. A seedy and voyeuristic recording, akin to witnessing a beating in a dark alley.
General Tempo
Second full length for the duo of Riccardo Mazza and Matteo Castro. Two long compositions that, while presenting the usual elements of the duo, made of tape works and field recordings, move forward, in a path in which the skeleton of the pieces is built on sounds of mechanisms and engines, manipulated through reel to reel, tape machines and digital effects. Tense and dynamic, the traces of this work move between a careful observation of the landscape and those repetitive, somehow …
Physical Point
** Edition of 200 copies ** Lettera 22 is the duo of Matteo Castro and Riccardo Mazza, two main characters in the Italian noise and experimental scene, building incredible collages of field recordings and abused dynamics. The lucky few who attended their live set at the Dome in London for the Broken Flag 30th Anniversary - where they caused a speaker stack to fall over, almost setting fire to it - saw their potential unleashed and knows what we mean by saying that they have an incredible control…
Native Waters
Native Waters is the result of three full days of recording that the Italian duo made ??in February 2012. The result is ideally placed halfway between the structured harsh noise of records like True Form and Lack Of Attention and the most quiet compositions of field recordings on the Dieter Tapes cassette. The tape loops, although still present, this time leaving more space for a degraded electronic, drowned in a sea of amplified electricity, tape hiss and distant feedback drones…
Dieter Tapes
Lettera 22 is the duo of Matteo Castro and Riccardo Mazza, two men on the forefront of the flourishing Italian noise & experimental scene. “Dieter Tapes” is a sordid collage of desolate audio, repurposed and destroyed in the struggle of man versus machine. Lettera 22 use extreme textures and dynamics to build up high levels of abusive tension, only to send them crashing down in a cacophony of broken beer bottles and urban scrap, leaving behind a skeleton of seething silence and tape hiss. A seed…
Carregon del Diol
The second series of compilations that presents the best artits that have sprung out of Italy's Northeast scene, rotating around Vittorio Veneto, Codalunga and the Three days of struggle festival, this scene is one of the most interesting and growing scenes of Europe. An intricate of labels, distribution and concert programmers. Featuring exclusive material from Be invisibile now, Bus de la Lum, Der Weze, Excellent Italian, Fantamatres, Kam Hassah, Lettera 22, Magic Towers, Nihil is me, Ottaven,…
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Lettera 22 conttribution to this tape project: a series of 26 cassette tapes centered around the interpretation on silent sound....Each tape is associated with a letter of the alphabet. Each letter is associated with an artist Each letter gives birth to an unwanted word The music is the artist's personal vision of silence 26 tapes by 26 italian acts. Each tape is hand numbered and limited to 100 copies. And the "B" letter is dedicated to
Lack Of Attention
46 minutes unique blend of failed electronics, crude tape manipulations, fieldrecordings and feedback from Italy’s finest, Matteo Castro & Riccardo Mazza. Closing the album is a 15 minute feedback piece. Airy, delicate and just stunning. Sounds like a drone piece someone dug out from the 60’s or something. Do not miss out!
True Form
Lettera22 is a new project from Riccardo Mazza and Matteo Castro (of WW and Nico Vascellari fame). Influenced by the contest of their everyday living in a place compressed between countries, mountains and factories, their sight points directly to men, machines, fields.Tape loops, field recordings and feedbacks melted in a unique form by violent, dinamic and noisy structures. Blind fury moments in contrast with cavernous concrete parts give us the sound of desolation landings. What was concrete b…
Negative Tongue
Lettera 22 is a new project from Riccardo Mazza and Matteo Castro wich borns in the deep north east of Italy. Influenced by the contest of their everyday living in a place compressed between countries, mountains and factories, their sight points directly to men, machines, fields. Really dinamic structures composed by tape loops, field recordings and feedbacks are destroyed by a violent muscular manipulation. What was concrete becomes distant and too complex to be concrete anymore ,any sin…