ABOUT
Paolino Canzoneri is an artist and composer based in Palermo, Italy. From 2009 to 2022 he released albums and digital singles of abstract and minimal experimental electronic music following influences related to the Krautrock of central Europe and he does so both as a soloist and with various active formations: Nesting Error, Mantra Regula, Urbis Nulla; but without a regoular release of music.
He opened and managed with the collaboration of Luigi Cilento two online labels (net labels): Nostress Netlabel founded in 2011 and Batenim Netlabel founded in 2013 releasing digital albums for free download under Creative Commons license by artists from all over the world including compilations digital annuals and entire digital recordings of concerts in Italy and abroad.He has also produced some albums in CD format in limited editions available exclusively by donation to be integrated with personal investments that allow him to come into direct contact with artists from Italian territory, Russia, Albania, France etc. and to participate as a label partner in various cultural and musical events.
In 2016 he made his first approaches to modular synthesis by producing and releasing the album Cryogenic Dispersal together with the international pioneer of the "industrial" musical genre Maurizio Bianchi M/B; the album receives great interest and appreciation with reviews in some Italian music magazines. In 2021, when the period and the interest for netlabels definitively ended, he entrusts to the artist Nicola Manzan an effective and complex work of re-mastering new reissues for his previous albums in exclusively digital format. Complete archive available here:
He definitely increases the interest for modular synthesizers and renews his studio always called "Multiverso" (from the title of his first solo CD), with new instrumentation and several new modular Eurorarck synthesis system that will lead to the release of the album in digital format and CD: Il cielo incupisce, released by Seahorse Recordings, that marks a change of pace and a clear distance from previous works. Reviews on webzine appear enthusiastic.
Since 2022 his new albums are minimal musical journeys, landscape sound paintings, sound design and textural passages with various labels. Each element is chosen to relax the listener by stimulating a hypnotic, cathartic, peaceful mood in order to further accentuate a feeling of disconnection with reality. Warm, deep sounds and nebulous elements contrast with pure sounds and coexist together with dilated and infinite sounds that fill intermediate spaces.