Insiememusicadiversa

Founded in the mid 1970s in Umbria, Insiememusicadiversa presented to the world the free-sound vision of Tercilio Mancinelli. On this, the only Insiememusicadiversa album, you can hear the playfulness of Mancinelli’s vision, explored in consort with other musicians Paolo Piselli and Angelo Petronella. Their freely performed music often came about through fantastically complex and creative graphic scores, some of which are reproduced in Italian label Die Schachtel’s 2005 reissue of Insiememusicadiversa; of course, the only hints these provide are structural, and it’s the listening that does the trick. It helps that the three musicians seem preternaturally sensitive, such that the abstraction they’re exploiting here never feels alienating. There are creepy passages of horror-film synthesis, abstruse percussive clattering a la Limpe Fuchs and Anima, wild and free vocalisations; bare-hands grappling with piano innards… Yet it’s much more than just period piece free improv; the incoherence somehow coheres into a document that tells us much about the freedoms of its times.