This is an unreviewable tape. Not in a bad way,
like, “Screw this tape, I hate it!” But in a way where anything beyond
description is irrelevant, useless, ambiguous, disingenuous. So let’s start
with the premise:
“Conversations was conceived in the cold months
of winter and early spring in Denmark 2019.
“Setting out to pursue a different artistic path, this album is composed using small fragments from a conversation with my father - field recordings and improvisations on an Organette.
“I was talking with my father Richard J. Rizzi in his home upstate NY in the winter of 2017 – and I wanted to record us hanging out in his kitchen – looking at his work and him telling stories. The parts I decided to used [sic] for this album, were mainly on subjects of art, philosophy, spirituality and a little about the man I’m named after – Robert Cole – my father[’]s friend and a gifted musician and conductor, who was killed the year before my birth – the rest of that story, is another album …”
“Setting out to pursue a different artistic path, this album is composed using small fragments from a conversation with my father - field recordings and improvisations on an Organette.
“I was talking with my father Richard J. Rizzi in his home upstate NY in the winter of 2017 – and I wanted to record us hanging out in his kitchen – looking at his work and him telling stories. The parts I decided to used [sic] for this album, were mainly on subjects of art, philosophy, spirituality and a little about the man I’m named after – Robert Cole – my father[’]s friend and a gifted musician and conductor, who was killed the year before my birth – the rest of that story, is another album …”
The field recordings add a sense of heaviness
to the air, a tension, and the text intersperses the sound. The result is a
vibrant electroacoustic noise experiment that you must delve deeply into –
skimming is not recommended. Set aside an hour and drop in on Rizzi and
contemplate his intense work.
--Ryan
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