MAGALETTI, VALENTINA - Rotta

"Valentina Magaletti's Rotta is released roughly two years since Blume Edition's last LP in 2020. The album encounters the Italian born, London based percussionist and composer embarking into the territory of the solo performer, sculpting a remarkable sense of emotive ambience and space from complex polyrhythms and electronic interventions. Rotta is an absolutely stunning, exploratory gesture of solo percussion and electronics by Valentina Magaletti shines like a beacon of hope into strange and uncertain times. Born in Southern Italy and conservatory trained, Valentina Magaletti first emerged on the London scene during the early 2000s. Over the last two decades, her work as a drummer and percussionist of rare and unparalleled talent has cut wild path across numerous idioms of music, collaborating with Nicolas Jaar, Jandek, Charles Hayward, Graham Lewis, Thurston Moore, and numerous others, in addition to her work within Tomaga, Holy Tongue, Moin, and Vanishing Twin. Rotta, a work for p