Release date: 01.08.2024


an ambient palindrome


01 SATOR 09:50
02 AREPO 08:22
03 TENET 07:16
04 OPERA 10:17
05 ROTAS 09:12


This is an album inspired by the Sator square (also known as magic square), a paleochristian inscription found in several places around Italy (the most famous is in Pompei), whose meaning is mysterious even today.

Five tracks; each one of those is a word of the square, and each one consists of five sonic ambients, which are the letters that make up the word itself. Each letter has its own melodic and harmonic content. In order to respect the palindrome pattern of the square, negative harmony was applied.

An instrumental concept album.


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zen295.zip (complete album with artwork)





Copyright (c) 2024 by Cristiano Bocci & Smiltzo
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License




Cristiano Bocci & Smiltzo  
Cristiano Bocci * 1975

Cristiano is a multi-instrumentalist (guitar, 6-string electric bass, double bass, theremin, viola da gamba), sound designer and composer in Tuscany, near Siena. His compositions are mainly related to electroacoustic improvisation and dark jazz, with a high component of computer humanization obtained by building DIY controllers and software.

He has released works under his own name and with American double-bassist Daniel Barbiero; saxophonist Tobia Bondesan; guitarist Fabrizio Bai; and with his duo of dark ambient music Chemical Resistance.

cristianobocci.com


Smiltzo (aka Francesco Monaci) * 1975

Smiltzo was born as a guitarist, but develops around the age of 20 his passion for the enormous compositional possibilities that software and electronic music in general provide. For about twenty years he has been part of the electronic pop songwriting band Liberal Carme.

As an electronic music composer he does not rely on a defined genre, but draws from suggestions ranging from Aphex Twin to Andrew Lloyd Webber, going from World Music to the noise of Einstürzende Neubauten, considering electronics only the means of expression that in the new millennium exponentially expanded the compositional possibilities once reserved for symphonic music.

Solo releases by Smiltzo on Zenapolæ
www.iyelabel.com/iye38-smiltzo-a-lifelong-quarantine
www.iyelabel.com/iye40-smiltzo-back-to-life

Releases by Cristiano Bocci & Smiltzo on Zenapolæ


Release date: 01.08.2024


an ambient palindrome


01 SATOR 09:50
02 AREPO 08:22
03 TENET 07:16
04 OPERA 10:17
05 ROTAS 09:12


This is an album inspired by the Sator square (also known as magic square), a paleochristian inscription found in several places around Italy (the most famous is in Pompei), whose meaning is mysterious even today.

Five tracks; each one of those is a word of the square, and each one consists of five sonic ambients, which are the letters that make up the word itself. Each letter has its own melodic and harmonic content. In order to respect the palindrome pattern of the square, negative harmony was applied.

An instrumental concept album.


Full Downloads

zen295.zip (complete album with artwork)





Copyright (c) 2024 by Cristiano Bocci & Smiltzo
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License




Release date: 23.01.2022


eight sonic pictures of dark, delicate and disturbed music


01 K'un 5:19
02 Kan 4:41
03 Sun 7:35
04 Ken 6:27
05 Tui 6:04
06 Chen 5:47
07 Li 6:50
08 Ch'ien 6:02


Full Downloads

zen243.zip (complete album with artwork)





Copyright (c) 2022 by Cristiano Bocci & Smiltzo
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
Cover artwork www.intornodesign.it




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