RELEASE DATE: July 2023 • LABEL: self-released

“Tableau vivant” is a suite recorded on a piano gut, plucked with fingers and nails. I tuned each string to a Just Intonation scale (inspired by La Monte Young and Kyle Gann) which capitalizes on the beauty of some groups of pure/just intervals and magnifies peculiar vibratory phenomena caused by the friction of extremely close frequencies, all across the spectrum. It is a contemplative piece, largely inspired by artistic genres that favor stillness and stationary scenes (eg landscape painting). I took the recordings in an acoustically treated room at EMS Stockholm with an array of seven different microphones and top-of-the-line studio rig. In “Tableaux Vivant” I used an “interval improvisation” approach, which allowed for more spontaneity, while maintaining the focus on particular sets of harmonies in every segment of the narration. I devised little critter-like virtual sonic motors, that function as accompanying background elements throughout the piece. They are made of the same material as the unshrouded harp and they share the same habitat. ~ “And then black night. That blackness was sublime. I felt distributed through space and time: One foot upon a mountaintop, one hand Under the pebbles of a panting strand, One ear in Italy, one eye in Spain In caves, my blood, and in the stars, my brain. ” ~ A short clip from the recording session can be viewed here: http://www.instagram.com/p/CdvMVfLAazO/. The piano gut was kindly made available by EMS Stockholm (elektronmusikstudion.se). Big thanks goes to photographer Daphné Lejeune for the poignant cover art and for being part of this project (lejeunedaphne.com). All music semi-improvised, recorded, mixed & mastered by Andrea Taeggi between Stockholm and Berlin

RELEASE DATE: December 2019 • LABEL: sm-ll

This record focuses on recordings of the iconic ARP 2500 synthesizer. Made at Willem-Twee Studios, Netherlands. Boomkat: “…he uses the slower tempo to open out and colour the space with discretely harmonised hues and expressively chattering electronics”. Mastered by Daniele Antezza at Dadub Studio. Recorded at Willem-Twee Studios.

RELEASE DATE: January 2016 • LABEL: Type

Italian artist Andrea Taeggi’s latest full-length is a rich exploration of tense, rhythmic minimalism. Taeggi was able to limit himself by working on old modular synthesizer systems – the Buchla and the Serge to be exact. “I needed to adapt to them,” he admits. “I don’t actually master them, which isn’t necessarily a disadvantage.” Unlike his work with Koenraad Ecker as Lumisokea and his material under the Gondwana moniker, Mama Matrix Most Mysterious showcases Taeggi’s interest in restraining himself – while aiming at finding a special kind of strength into simplicity. This playfulness buoys Mama Matrix Most Mysterious throughout, distancing it from the litany of self-involved modular synth LPs filling the shelves right now. Rather, the Serge and Buchla systems allowed the Italian producer to realize his rhythmic and timbric visions. Taeggi filters decades of beat-driven electronic music through these machines to come up with a record of chattering bass-heavy experiments that sound like little else. You’d struggle to dance to it, but Taeggi’s sound is so physical that you can almost feel the electricity running through the circuits. And isn’t that exactly what electronic music should be about?

RELEASE DATE: July 2023 • LABEL: self-released

Live recording of the performance at Moers Festival 2019 ARP 2500 & ARP 2600 synths, kindly provided by Willem-Twee Studios, NL. You will receive edits of the show asseparate tracks. Live mix engineer: Ron Ruiten. Live recording: Sebastian Clobes, Stephan Flock and Jörn Nettingsmeier. All music written & performed by Andrea Taeggi. Mixdown & Master by Andrea Taeggi.

RELEASE DATE: January 2015 • LABEL: Opal Tapes

As Gondwana, Lumisokea’s Andrea Taeggi traverses expansive, imposing sound spheres for Opal Tapes. ‘Aum’ explores semi-organic, electro-acoustic sound on seismic, tectonic scales, crushing and sublimating ambient and industrial techno structures into spectral topographies and a sort of elemental psycho-geology permeated with crooked rhythm fissures and slow-moving, transitional tones morphing thru various stages of de-and-re-composition. The effect, at times, reminds of a more tempered take on Ben Frost’s epic inclinations, a less academic relation to Kassel Jaeger’s most recent GRM output, or a darker take on the intuitively unfolding texturhythms and emulsified tones of Brett Naucke’s excellent ‘Seed’ for Spectrum Spools. (BOOMKAT)

RELEASE DATE: March 2017 • LABEL: Opal Tapes

Following his previous appearance as Gondwana on Opal Tapes back in 2015, Andrea Taeggi returns to the label with a new mini-album of spellbinding constructions from the outer-reaches. Taeggi is best known for his work alongside Koenraad Ecker in Lumisokea. It’s a productive partnership that has yielded numerous albums for the likes of Eat Concrete and ALTER as well as multiple Opal offerings, including last year’s Transmissions From Revarsavr. Under his own name, Taeggi also released the Mama Matrix Most Mysterious LP on Type two years ago. The same intensive level of detail found in the Lumisokea productions permeates Miccaotli, with Taeggi’s distinctive rhythmic approaches and sound palette making this a release as engaging as it is adventurous. Clattering, mutant breakbeat flaring flirts with zippy synthesis on “Huehueteotl” before the more intimate shuffle and rattle of “Cipacti”, its kitchen sink percussion falling prey to crafty edits and FX swells. “Tlaloc” grows from sparse beginnings to meet with stark lead hooks that shine out amongst the razor sharp beat programming. Hyper-modern breakbeat science looms once more on Side B opener “Quetzalcoatl”, and continues apace into the intricate roll of “Miccaotli”, where dazzling daubs of synths splay out between the urgent thrust of the drums. “Tezontle” closes proceedings with a snaking approach that equally champions infinitesimal sound design and hard-rocking, idiosyncratic groove. There’s a consistent style that shapes out Miccaotli, and it once again demonstrates the great technical skill Taeggi is capable of deploying in the studio. Fortunately the results of his endeavours are as utterly thrilling to listen to as they are advanced.

RELEASE DATE: June 2017 • LABEL: sm-ll

Andrea is most known for his excellent album on Type “Mama Matrix”, an album that has been listened to and enjoyed extensively here at SM-LL. We first heard of Andrea through his Sonic Explorations mixtape contribution for the excellent Electronic Explorations, combining his own explorations at EMS with fitting choices such as Robert Hood and early Alva Noto. Andrea’s first release with us fits perfectly within the Batch format. Minimal structures, sub frequencies, with his unique rhythmical sonic pings. These sounds seem more akin to that of testing equipment output, than what we might typically think coming from an electronic music studio. I guess time will tell.

RELEASE DATE: April 2018 • LABEL: Präsens Editionen

Noméri—Tere is Andrea Taeggi’s latest work, published as limited editions of a) professionally cut 12” dubplates, and b) booklets (incl. download code) featuring an essay by Marc Schwegler, as well as digitally. The album is the culmination of a six-months period of research, residencies, recordings and composition carried out throughout 2017. Motivated by the need to shed new light over some of his earlier practices in acoustic music, Andrea started to grow a vocabulary using the sonic potential of the piano as a whole and fascinated by the wealth of timbres that one could yield from its inside part especially. Noméri—Tere is informed by musical practices coming from different corners; Western contemporary classical music, southern Indian Karnatic music, free improvised music, just intonation, musique concrète, foley, synths and bass music. The recordings were taken at EMS Stockholm on a special instrument: a re-tuned piano soundboard with its strings. Because of the more metallic colouration given by the tuning and because of how it was played (with mallets, bows, ebows, nails, etc), it can easily be mistaken for something other than a piano. credits released April 27, 2018 Album written, performed and recorded by Andrea Taeggi. Mastered by Stefan Betke at Scape Mastering. Graphic design by Kaj Lehmann. Published by Präsens Editionen, Luzern.

RELEASE DATE: August 2018 • LABEL: sm-ll

“The music on this record was made using a vast array of rare analogue machines I had the chance to work on at the Willem-Twee synthesis studio in Holland (built with the iconic Studio di Fonologia RAI as a blueprint). Most of the percussive sounds come from an Analog Computer, which has been rarely used only as a music instrument (its main purpose was flight simulation). In fact, during the Cold War times, it was also used as a measurement tool by civil engineers and even by the army. To my knowledge, very few artists have given a new context to such device, which I have found absolutely unique-sounding and gave me enough inspiration to compose a whole new album focused on it. At present, no one has ever officially released music recorded at the Willem-Twee synthesis studio. The music on this record further explores cyclical, minimal and hypnotic concoctions – a particular investigation focused on unusual rhythms that I had already started on ‘Mama Matrix Most Mysterious’, released on Type in 2015. Think walls of sub frequencies, snappy rollercoasters of the mind, labyrinths in hyperspace & snakes eating their own tails. Zimní Král means “Winter King” in Czech and was the epithet given to Frederick V Elector Palatine (king of Bohemia), the last of a legacy to actively support alchemy as a means of studying reality, the self and their inter-reflections.” – Andrea Taeggi credits released August 31, 2018 Composed, recorded and mixed by Andrea Taeggi. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M Berlin. Special thanks to Rikkert Brok, Hans Kulk and the people at Willem-Twee Studio for making the recording sessions possible.

RELEASE DATE: April 2020 • LABEL: OOH-Sounds

One half of duo Lumisokea and persistent sonic explorer ANDREA TAEGGI (Opal Tapes, SM-LL, Type, Präsens Editionen) debuts on OOH-sounds with a new solo album under-the-influence of mushrooms. Recorded at Willem-Twee synthesis studios in Holland, MYCORRHIZA is a lucid excursion into a new form of ‘ritual- computer-music’ — gamelan from the future. Of course this is not the first album born under-the-influence of mushrooms, but apparently Taeggi doesn’t take them here as he rather observes the cognitive and intelligent behavior of mycorrhizal fungal roots—one of the great mysteries inhabiting the forest soil, and from which a network of beneficial underground relationships with plants sprouts. Known as Mycelium, this fascinating wood-wide-web very much resembles the intricacy of the human neural system—transporting carbon, water and nutrients from one tree to another. A mutualistic symbiosis that Taeggi similarly establishes with the rather rare arsenal of sound machineries he had access to at Willem-Twee synthesis studios in Holland—a center for experimentation inspired by Berio and Maderna’s Studio di Fonologia RAI in 1950s Milan. In the process of tweaking and feeding electric impulses and sound signals into instruments of the likes of the iconic ARP 2500/2600 and a number of testing/measuring units from the 50/60s—originally not conceived as musical instruments— Taeggi engages into an exchange of nutrients and information, while abruptly sabotaging un-welcome elements, hence accelerating the sound superhighway towards spectral psychedelic tension—a process he seems to be extremely in control of. Taking a step aside from his usual minimal approach to address more complex structures and augmented mind-sets, Mycorrhiza sounds at times like gamelan from the future: a lucid excursion into a form of “ritual-computer-music” with a conspicuous penchant for detail, alluding to a continuity between pseudo-cerimonial and laboratory-like computer music, steering clear from any reference to a specific creed or religion—imagine Stockhausen drinking the Amazonian sacred brew Ayahuasca.. The swarming micro-movements of “Cuttleburrs” multiply in a series of crescendos marked by sudden falls, saturated drums incursions and tense sonic clusters, introducing the more explicit gamelan percussive tones and compositional forms of “Kodama” and “Icaro”. Recorded on the ARP 2500, “Mycorrhiza” uses white noise generators, resonant bass and spring reverb to conjure up a magical fungal diorama, which expands into the spooky shadows of skeletons and demons of “Phantasmagoria” and the spectral mystics of “Oculus Cordis”—the Eye of the Spirit — in which Taeggi grapples with the same sine-wave generators that Stockhausen used in his seminal “Studie I” and “Studie II”.

RELEASE DATE: September 2021 • LABEL: Syncopathic

„Drawing on the memory of an illegal party in Amsterdam back in 2008, Andrea Taeggi’s 5HT2 smashes the stylistic hallmarks of late-noughties dubstep (sub-wobble, triplet syncopations) into an atypically slicker, sharper array of electronic tonalities. By reducing a sound already renowned for textural minimalism, the record accentuates those colliding extremes at the genre’s core: between boisterous intensity and sculptural refinement, between gnashing synths and yawning emptiness. Opener “Qudits” encapsulates this in a riff that renders a classic dubstep hook in squared-off buzzes rather than in bloated ovular womps, while later cuts like “Kiddoid” and “Shingle” rise into more frenetic atmospheres, with lead lines jagging between offbeat organ chords that erupt like fireworks, somehow retaining a minimalist aesthetic as it obliterates every pocket of empty space. All throughout, 5HT2 channels dubstep’s quintessential stagger into an echo-drenched reminiscence of weirder 90s electronic music, mangling multiple nostalgias into the compositional inclinations of the present, scrambling all attempts to place it anywhere but here and now.“ (Jack Chuter). Released September 21, 2021. All tracks written and produced by Andrea Taeggi. Mastered by Macc at Subvert Central Mastering. Released via Syncopathic Recordings

RELEASE DATE: February 2023 • LABEL: Monkey Dub

Silence and Sound : […] “The artist has an uncommon talent at mixing swirling melodies and danceable rhythms, developing on each track adjustable ambiances, able to be dressed with subtle aggressive synths”

RELEASE DATE: July 2023 • LABEL: Monkey Dub

all music engineered by 5HT2. Mastered by Dan @ Dadub studio -> live set video teaser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2wrPJnKZ1E credits released June 24, 2023