Spannung The Reviews
Translation from Italian Press by Lorenzo Marranini
(DarkRoom Magazine)
(Masseria dei Suoni)
MASSIMO PIROTTA(Vorrei)
(Sapere in Campania)
(Non solo Prog)
GIOVANNI ROSSI (Industrial Revolution)
JANUARY 2016
<< Starting the 2016 with the amazing voice of Romina Daniele (...) Spannung is a refined work (...) the singer shows even more her mastery (...) a condensation of emotions (... ) full of atmosphere (...) pure and full-blooded blues (...) vocal interpretations which everyone should start to know (...) an even more fascinating experiment of sound investigation (...) produced in a superlative way, orchestrated between electronics and classicism, arranged with an abudance of details. She composes, sings, arranges and works in the complicated universe of experimental music with a surprising naturalness. Spannung is an album that should not miss in the collection of anyone who loves contemporary experimentation, in particular the voice and its multiple expressive possibilities. And Romina Daniele is a seductive, fascinating and masterful interpreter of the thousand possibilities of the human vocal cords. >> Thanks to Giovanni Rossi on Indrustrial Revolution January 1st 2016. Complete text (Italian): here.
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FEBRUARY 2016
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<< RominaDaniele is a portento, an artist who could hardly think to relax on what is not new and already seen and felt. Been there, done that. "Spannung" has a key that opens more doors (inside and outside) and gives life to new sounds. Theoretical path, balance and sense of dering, stability and an attitude that has as its final goal the high profile. "Spannung" is a all three (perfect number ?, triple cd, three hours of music) that requires attention and more listenings. It is not the usual routine, because it emanates underground poetry and to catch and taste it is on the listener. It is impossible to remain indifferent to the centrifugal re-readings of "Summertime" (George Gershwin), "Sycamore Trees" (Angelo Badalamenti & David Lynch), "Special Delivery Blues" (Odetta Holmes). It is impossible not to be moved before the multiple approaches of "Daisen" and the six minutes of "The absent nature". Bluesin’ heart, "scientific" electronics, a voice that is a complete and original songbook. Stunning (...) >> Thanks to Massimo Pirotta on Vorrei.org, February 1st 2016. Complet text (Italian): here.
FEBRUARY 2016
<< "Spannung" is a box set that has been through seven years of 'gestation', and which includes three discs, one red, the color of the cover and the booklet (and 'red' is also the image of the artist which transpire from the beautiful photos), one blue and the last black. In the cd I, the voice of Romina Daniele, her compositions and her electronics. In the second, with the same grade of poetics and language, the vocal path continues, but with more interlocutions (...) The architecture of "Spannung" is solid, well thought out, precisely 'monolithic'. (...) Then in the first two CDs there are some known places, let's say some 'street indicators', to use a Francophone language: Gershwin, Bessie Smith, Frank Sinatra, some traditional. These tracks are like a bank to not freak out: that is the art of permutation, of recreating, of doing what one wants of the known, without betraying it, innovating it as well. This means memory (...) The greatness of this musician, who is not just a musician, stands in her ability to propose both a compositional action and a bold vocal gesture, she takes challenges, she dares and explores almost virgin lands like very few others did (and I think to Demetrio Stratos of course: I believe Romina is one of the very few living artists who can use the voice like Demetrio did), and at the same time she has a very solid aesthetic and philosophical approach (...) The thought of Romina Daniele, which gives this extraordinary strength to her music, is about searching for the authentic, the starting and closing point, where the other is found in "being together thrown into the world". It is another bank, another chance of the authentic. For this reason, I like to conclude with her words: "Voice stakes everything, at higher grades of expotion, in front of the structures of construct. And voice is man here. Being-together the enigma we take care of at the edge of the struggle as well, and the limit is not where one thing is ending, indeed is where everything begins its essence". >> Thanks to Girolamo De Simone on Masseriadeisuoni.org Full text (Italian): here.
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JANUARY 2016
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<< she is back full of experiences (...) in this sumptuous triple cd showing us the vocal experimentation can also commit to the music (...) happened to the Area of Demetrio Stratos (...) Music and body essence, research and dedication to the Blues (...) the red color surrounds every image and gives strength with all its passionality (...) Electronics and voice, vibrato and acute (...) a full-bodied and refined sound path. Striking the interpretation of "Summertime" (...) The warm soul of "Sycamore Trees" written by Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch (...) vocal recordings deeply developed(...) here it is the field more defined and deeper of the musical and vocal essence (...) we often meet the Romina’s eyes, intense and deep as her music. The second CD starts with a traditional (...) Beautiful the cover of Frank Sinatra "I am a fool to want you (Take II)" as well (...) intense, heart-felt and biting (...) Music and sounds to think, to hit the nerves, to relax, to frighten, to be amazed, to learn, to warm up, to freeze, to .... >> Thanks to Massimo Salari on NonSoloProgRock January 19 2016. Full text (Italian): here.
JANUARY 2016
<<We received from Milan the work as latest musical efforts of the most articulate and extraordinarily lyrical voice, as well as technical, born in the shadow of the Vesuvius, here she is Romina Daniele. (...) between the end of 2015 and the beginning of 2016, Romina has published two works: Spannung (monumental triple cds solo work) and Absence (by Sheen, a project in collaboration with Lorenzo Marranini).Spannung (German term for "tension") is her third solo album, a triple audio cd between voice and electronics, textuality and improvisation, solo recordings and with the band, extended vocals and blues.(...) Absence is conceived and developed by the collaboration between Romina and Lorenzo Marranini (co-founder of the RDM Records). We are going to say nothing more about, you should get these works:: such records are so rare in Italy as they show how possible to do truly artistic research is. Romina Daniele carries on a research which can right away be defined technically solid, critically complex, philosophically profound and, above all, so far emotionally heartbreaking and with a strong, we can say magmatic, inspiration. >> Thanks to Vincenzo Notaro on Saperincampania.it January 25th 2016 .Full text (Italian).
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MAY 2016
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<<.This mammoth triple CD, whose sumptuous digipack packaging completed with an extensive booklet recalls the excellence of certain collections of classical music (…) Such a large amount of material (over three hours in total) that it is difficult to fully explain its contents in the space of a normal review (…) her incredible vocal chords allow her to be anything: a scared little girl, a complaining old woman, a thoughtful dark lady, a disillusioned dreamer, a witch in the den or any other figure she wants to impersonate. But his voice is also made - and perhaps above all - to go beyond the words, whether recited or sung, so much so that it often becomes a sound, a scream, a rattle, an operatic vocalize or a restless verse, to convey that "o be stake of one's being into the being itself with everything of us into the world before it went away in vain" to which the official notes refer. The voice is centrality and fulcrum of a bold and borderless experimental journey that finds its culmination in the third disk, with the almost 25 minutes of the lugubrious "Dasein III" as a worthy closing of a work that pushes forward the known boundaries of the research vocal. >> Thanks to Roberto Alessandro Filippozzi on Darkroom-magazine.it Full text (Italian): here.
Out December 24th 2015
Spannung by Romina Daniele is a triple cd audio, with 31 tracks, 36 pages booklet, 3 hours of music, between Electronics and vocal and music experimentation, live studio sessions in solo and with the band.
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