Between Neck & Stomach

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ANDREA BELFI - Between Neck & Stomach
Hapna
CD // £11.99
FOLK / AMERICANA
Released: Sep 2006
Catalogue Number: H.29

Back in stock! Italian musician Andrea Belfi has come up with something truly wonderful on his second album 'Between Neck & Stomach'. Originally trained as a drummer, Belfi created this album over the last four years using two key ideas; the first was that he felt the house he was recording in should be a "living creature with its own voice". By that he meant that if he was playing something in a room which would cause vibrations or a specific sound, all that should be recorded and emphasized - so you might hear pots and pans rattling as a synthesizer note resonates, or the specific reverb from a bathroom used as the primary part of a track. The other idea was that each piece should be based around one thematic note around which the rest of the track is built. This might sound limiting but over the course of six tracks Belfi shows just how far he can take these themes and how he can mould them to fit his needs. On 'Extraevil' what begins as a raucous and frenetic percussion and melodica track halfway through strips down to almost nothing, just a rumble of toms, the melodica drone and the tremble of guitar strings, elsewhere 'Her Own Desert' takes a Thomas Koner-style cavernous drone and punctuates it with metallic sounds and bizarre field recordings. The album comes to a close with 'Footprints', probably the most traditional sounding track of the six, but it is no less expressive or indeed impressive than the rest. Building melancholy melodies around a glassy hit note and gorgeous percussion this could be the soundtrack to countless European films - in itself an apt summation of all the themes Belfi has approached and mastered over the course of this intriguing album. An engrossing and striking record and one which will lodge itself in your memories for a long time to come.