feld001 Carlos Giffoni:

"The Beauty of Skylines"

A Live recording 3" CD coming in a special cardboard-box from the european bushwick psycho tour stop in Frankfurt last year contains a 20:57 minutes long, carefully edited piece of improvised electronic sound-mangling. You?ll hear a wide variety of sound textures reaching from brusque tones, walls of feedback and noise mayhem to softer, almost ambient-sounding passages.

Carlos Giffoni collaborated with Artists such as Lee Ranaldo, Jim O?Rourke, Thurston Moore, Lasse Marhaug and many others ... Carlos activities/releases: http://www.carlosgiffoni.com/

The name Carlos Giffoni may only ring a few bells, and that's mostly because of his release with Lee Ranaldo and Jim O'Rourke (see Vital Weekly 430) or his collaboration with Lasse Marhaug (see Vital Weekly 434). On this mini CD, Giffoni presents a recent live recording from a concert in Frankfurt, Germany. In this piece sounds and styles collide together: ambient meets noise and glitches and drones work against and with each-other. In his laptop improvisations, Giffoni is all over the place. It's certainly quite a nice piece, but I can imagine that it works better when heard live at a full blast volume (which of course you can't really do at home - not this one).

(FdW, Vital Weekly 484)

'Carlos Giffoni has recently become an essential name in Brooklyn's active electronics and noise scene. His formidable improv talents have landed him gigs with everyone from Kevin Drumm to Dino Felipe to Nautical Almanac. Born in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, Giffoni toured the United States three times and Japan once with Monotract while living in Miami in the late 1990's. He moved To New York in 2001.'

(dusted magazine)

An unquestionably rich soundscape, Carlos Giffoni's 3-inch is just 21 minutes but sounds like a whole CD collection put into an electric egg-beater and eaten by a six-head insect that vomits sound fragments all around while flying zig-zag trajectories. Noise eruptions, minimalist orgasms, skipping discsand decomposed organs play their fundamental role in a piece which is intelligent and funny, with nary a moment of dullness. Giffoni is rapidly establishing his name around; based on this work the credit is deserved.

(MASSIMO RICCI, TOUCHING EXTREMES, septemer 2005)