Armando Sciascia is an Italian musician, composer, arranger, and violinist. Mostly for Italian soundtrack films, but also very much a huge figure in the music library world. This is music used by film producers to select music to fit a scene in a movie. It's not original music for that specific film, but more of stuff left in a closet, and one approaches the space for the perfect sound at that moment. "Violin Reactions" are set pieces with Sciascia's violin playing, as well as composition, that is a hybrid of strong melodies, beats, and electronically processed sounds. Sciascia had his own record label for his music and studio as well. By day he served the film industry, by night he got into his own weird groove.
The photographs I see of Sciascia are always from the 1950s or even earlier, and they somewhat do not convey the sounds he made in the 1970s. Here, in his studio, he's a combination of Brian Eno and Joe Meek as he experiments with aural tools to make a new world. "Violin Reactions" is a title that doesn't disappoint. Every piece of music here has a strong presence of Sciascia's violin playing, but it's the mixture or the soup that he places the violin within that gives this album much pleasure.
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