Joseph Schiano di Lombo calls himself a "humusician". In the same way that organic matter reinvents itself in a continuous process of death and life, he likes to play with the existing, playing all kinds of games, weaving links between styles, registers and periods. After his cover of Jennifer Lopez's "If You Had My Love", he continues his series of "compostitions" (and not "compositions") with the French label Land Arts. This time he chose the theme of "Sans contrefaçon", a song written by Mylène Farmer and composed by Laurent Boutonnat, released on October 16th 1987. To rewrite this famous hit, which deals with the themes of sexual ambiguity and transvestism, Joseph decided - with a smile on his face - to pastiche the styles of two French composers: Erik Satie and Claude Debussy. The friendship between the two musicians, which rivalry had deteriorated over time, is revived just the time of this short and soothing EP.
Classically trained as a pianist and a graduate of the Arts Décoratifs de Paris, Joseph Schiano di Lombo's work today displays a great formal diversity, seeking through it an opening to ontological, poetic and sensitive questions. His training as an instrumentalist gives him a propensity to appropriate what is already in the world, in the manner of a performer. But rather than faithfully rendering the text, he prefers its alteration: transposed into sets of plastic, musical and literary pieces, his references become muses, scores, instruments that he plays. As such, his posture is that of a re-interpreter who plays all kinds of games. Behind these alchemical processes, he reveals by re-presenting them to the world, like a spiritual archaeologist, new possibilities of being.
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released August 28, 2020
Mix by Clément Variéras, master by Lorenzo Targhetta
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