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Eikon

by Giovanni Lami

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    12" black vinyl featuring cover and insert artwork by Carolina Martines. Graphic design by Nicola Chemotti Beutel.
    Printed by Legno.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Eikon via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Lanterna magica 09:51
2.
Frammenti di schiuma 09:25
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Soggetti sottili 10:03
4.
Corpo del cielo 11:40

about

Two years following his work 'Monumento Fiume', Giovanni Lami returns to Kohlhaas with a new release, once again investigating the intricate relationships between memory, the sonic medium, and decay.
'Eikon' originates from a series of acoustic cello recordings, subsequently disassembled and transformed by Lami, resulting in a unique deconstructed and layered object, lying somewhere at the intersection of soundtrack, decomposed ambient and video game music, shaped through the use of samplers, a modular system, and magnetic reel-to-reel recorders.
Although the essence of the original sonic material persists, its form is entirely transformed and rendered into a sort of perceptual absence. The concept of shadow, a recurring theme in Lami's work, resurfaces here, tied to sound, memory, and the evolution of the past.
Giovanni Lami's research delves into the processes of degradation and the inherent limitations or interferences of all recording and playback devices, both analog and digital, ultimately uncovering intricate details and sonic irregularities. Revealing a fascination with the potential of error, his work explores how to channel imperfections rather than suppressing them within a strict system of rules, in order to achieve a balance between chance and narrative.

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released May 30, 2025

Modular synthesizers, field recordings, samplers, objects: Giovanni Lami
Composed and mixed by Giovanni Lami
Recorded in Ravenna between 2023 and 2024
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Cut at Analogcut, Berlin
Cover picture by Carolina Martines
Graphic Design by Nicola Chemotti Beutel
Text by Giovanni Battista De Pol
Translation by Laura Matilde Mannino
Typeface: EK Roumald by Erkin Karamemet
Printed by Legno, Milan

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Giovanni Lami Italy

Sound artist and musician who work within soundscape and sound-ecology boundaries since 2009/10.
His research is related with the study of resonant surfaces in the field, degradation processes and the limit and interferences of each device used to record or reproduce a sound. ... more

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