Curious Music is pleased to announce the release of Outside the new album by Fabio Capanni.

Outside is available as a limited-edition 180-gram 2LP album, limited edition cd, digital download and stream.

European customers order via Burning Shed.

For Fabio Capanni, an Italian musician and architect, music is essentially the representation of spaces. Just as time is the measure of music, in a similar way time is linked to space in an indissoluble relationship, allowing music itself to represent the three-dimensionality of space.

The time marked by Capanni’s music is an abstract time that comes from silence and tends to return to silence, aimed at foreshadowing spaces that are not real but rather spaces of the soul. With an intimate mood, Fabio Capanni’s music aspires to transport the listener to territories and landscapes of rare suggestion.

The eight tracks of the new album Outside are developed around the refined sonic textures that have always distinguished Capanni's personal approach to the harmonic possibilities offered by the electric guitar, continuing an exploration that began with the 2021 album Home. Outside is an instrumental album, composed and performed by Fabio Capanni with only essential instrumentation of guitar and piano. The electric guitar used in an unconventional way is a distinctive mark of Capanni's music, capable of generating original sonorities and enveloping atmospheres in constant dialogue with the piano strings, creating a musical fresco of relevant expressive power where everything is “played with hands” and in which synthetic processing of sounds is not allowed.

If Home had been an album turned “inward,” an expressive urgency dictated by the search for an inner dimension, Outside starts from that dimension in order to project it outward, where the inner world and the real world chase each other until they merge along the same horizon of an ideal space. To embellish the magical atmospheres of Outside, Capanni's past collaborations with musicians of international relevance (from Hans-Joachim Roedelius to Peter Principle, from Harold Budd to Steve Jansen and Richard Barbieri) re-emerge in the figure of Luc van Lieshout of Tuxedomoon who, with his flugelhorn, does not limit himself to punctual interventions, but develops a dialogue with the broad musical scope set up by Capanni, giving it an unprecedented enchantment.

About Fabio Capanni

Italian composer, musician and architect Fabio Capanni has been a key innovator of experimental music since the late 1980s.

The refined sonic textures that have distinguished Capanni’s highly personal approach to the harmonic possibilities of the electric guitar have led him to collaborate with musicians such as: Peter Principle, Luc Van Lieshout (Tuxedomoon), Dirk Descheemaeker (Wim Mertens), Harold Budd, David Torn, David Sylvian, Steve Jansen, Richard Barbieri, Roger Eno, Tim Story, Chris Karrer, and Glen Sweeney. Above all, Capanni has worked alongside one of the fathers of ambient music, German musician Hans-Joachim Roedelius, in the studio and live for more than a decade. They also founded the group Aquarello together with Felix Jay and Roman saxophonist Nicola Alesini.

In 2021, after a long silence, Capanni returned to the music scene with his first solo album, Home, a project through which he puts into action a long-nurtured idea: to make a work focused on the electric guitar. Home, as evoked by the title, is a decidedly intimate album in which the piano strings are valuable complements to those of the electric guitar in creating striking soundscapes.

Combining with other art forms has been fertile ground for the evocative power of Capanni’s sonic narratives, expressed in numerous multimedia projects of music, dance, and images, including: Quartetto Capanni plays Ennio Morricone (Contemporary Art Museum Luigi Pecci, Prato); Borges and I (Donau Festival, Krems; Szene, Salzburg); Klang & Malerei (Black Box, Münchner Philharmoniker); Festival de Musica Visual (Jameos del Agua, Lanzarote); Persistence of Memory (Kunst Halle, Krems); and Coppi Arrive (Contemporary Art Museum Luigi Pecci, Prato).

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