OTEME - Il Giardino Disincantato (2012)

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Italian project OTEME (an abbreviation of Osservatorio Delle Terre Emerse) was formed in 2010 by noted composer and musician Stefano Giannotti, a veteran in the field of experimental music with a career that stretches back to the 80's. "Il Giardino Disincantato" is the first production by this venture, and was released on the Edd Strapontins label in 2013.

Oteme's debut album "Il Giardino Disincantato" is a production where words like beautiful and elegant beg to be used multiple times, and a recording hard to describe without using words like experimental and contemporary as well. Using elements from classical music, jazz, rock as well as details harder to place inside any of the big genre umbrellas, this is a production that should be sought out by those who tend to enjoy music that exists outside of the common norms, especially those who enjoy productions of that kind that manage to maintain a highly accessible nature and manage to combine that with a challenging approach and execution.

~ Prog Archives

Between singer-songwriter style, Rock In Opposition (RIO) and contemporary music, the sonic studio led by composer Stefano Giannotti releases its debut album. A band “with variable geometries”, innovative and independent from the “rules of the business”, looking for “dry lands”. Special guest Thomas Bloch.

“Dry lands are islands, continents we can explore. As we start walking through them, we may find familiar places or weird, unusual ones. Our dry lands are areas in which what happens is not exactly straightforward, at least according to the business. There is creative research, there is a blend. Our observatory is some kind of studio: many of the musicians revolving around it are young and trained in contemporary art in a course that is long, hard but fun.” So Stefano Giannottiintroduces OTEME – Osservatorio sulle Terre Emerse: a studio open to links between various musical and cultural environments distinguished by a common eclecticism and above all by flexibility – and completely independent from the “rules of the business”. Their debut album, Il giardino disincantato (“The Disenchanted Garden”) is a first, full proof of this.”

OTEME is a chamber ensemble whose size and composition change according to the song being executed and the language chosen: Il giardino disincantato is abrave and versatile work with several souls. From an art-rock and progressive background to the innovation of classic and contemporary high-end music, from singer-songwriter style to musical theatre to the roughness of Rock In Opposition (RIO). Unusual instruments – componium, teponatzli, glass harmonica (here played by Thomas Bloch who has recorded with Radiohead, Tom Waits, Gorillaz and John Cage amongst others) – irony and surrealism: fromBattisti-Panella to Stravinskji, from King Crimson to John Cage. Giannotti says: “The idea behind Giardino is to create songs that are not immediate, disposable. Nearly all songs seem static, but they move – or the other way around. This is because there is no tonic or dominant note, but each track moves on modal procedures stained by dissonance and sonic oddities.”

by Donato Zoppo / Synpress44 Press Office

~ oteme.com

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