Massimo Pupillo, Malcolm McDowell, Gabriele Tinti Announce ‘Songs Of Stone’ – New Collaborative LP
Massimo Pupillo (of ZU), Malcolm McDowell and Italian poet, Gabriele Tinti will release a new collaborative album, ‘Songs Of Stone,’ out March, 10th via Subsound Records.
‘Songs of Stone’ is a musical project based on several epigrams, elegies and laments that Gabriele Tinti composed inspired by epigraphs from the ancient world. It arises from the wish to sustain the necessary link that joins us to the rituals of the past. The inscription on durable material was one of the languages the ancients used to oppose the transience of oral expression, wishing to conserve their words in time. Tinti gathers these ideas to create verses he entrusts to the actor’s interpretation, thus combining the impression of the spoken word and the visual participation of the words in stone. The readings are made by Malcolm McDowell, a star of numerous cult films including A Clockwork Orange, If… and Caligula.
Tinti’s words and the actor’s vocal performance are put together by Massimo Pupillo in a work intended to transgress the confines between reality and ancient mythology. Massimo has created an imaginary landscape, creating a visionary theatre for Gabriele Tinti ‘s words, a sound world born and based on the precise and eloquent vocal timbre of Malcolm McDowell Using a plethora of different sources, various synthesis, samples of eastern European choirs, processing McDowells’ voice, ‘Songs of Stone’ will bring the listener in a twilight zone between dreams and mythology, where remote past and future horizons meet.
Massimo Pupillo is mostly known for being the founding member of Zu, with whom he has released 18 albums and played more than 2000 shows around the world. He has also kept a very open and multidisciplinary approach that led him to work with some of the most acclaimed figures in today’s world of arts. A recent recipient of the Montale Poetry Award, Gabriele Tinti is an Italian poet and writer. Malcolm McDowell is an English actor, producer, and television presenter, best known for his boisterous, charismatic and villainous roles. He later trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before embarking on an acting career that has spanned over 50 years.
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