Maurizio Marsico: The Sunny Side Of The Dark Side auf CD

After the dark clouds of the 70's the world was changing and Maurizio Marsico, fresh off New York sessions with Rhys Chatham, started the 80's with a couple of experimental records under the moniker Monofonic Orchestra, published by the cult label Italian Records, »Music Design« and »Friends' Portraits«. Stefano Tamburini, the creator of the legendary Ranxerox comic hero painted by Tanino Liberatore, was an onlooker in disguise in New York Marsico's exhibitions, and back in Italy he crowned him this way on the pages of his Frigidaire magazine: »The best things I've heard in New York came from Monofonic Orchestra (the Italian Maurizio Marsico with guest stars): fuck compliments! Far from Glenn Branca and his bunch of avant-oratorical assholes guitarists.« It was the beginning of a borderline friendship that beyond excesses found its glue mainly in the feverish and coloured creativity, in the dedication for the more or less subversive fragment's aesthetic, in the genial messing around.