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Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo ( r )

Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo is a member of the experimental-cult-band Larsen.
( r ) is Fabrizio's solo project, a mighty cocktail of introspective-ambient-noise and lyrical song-writing.

"Humps" is ( r ) first solo album, that marks the collaboration with Fabrizio and the visual artist/performer Michelle Handelmann (Monte Cazazza's M&M,Survival Research Laboratory, Psychic Tv) too. Two more album has so far followed being “In Pink” his latest .
Both as ( r ) and with Larsen Fabrizo has played tons of concerts in EU and USA and of course Italy, including sold out theatres, sordid bars, big festival, art galleries and empty spaces.
Fabrizio has also been invited by the e-Xplo collective to work with them on a project for the Biennal of the Young Art (Big Torino 2002) as well as by the legendary Can's Singer Damo Suzuki to join his Network for some gigs.
Lately he has produced, as well as co-written/performed,
"Black Sun Production" (of the Coil's family)’s “OperettAmorale”: a Brecht/Weill tribute album featuring Lydia Lunch, H.R.Giger and Coil
Fabrizio has also worked, among the others, with Xiu Xiu (as a member of XXL aka XiuXiuLarsen), Olivier Manchion (Ulan Bator, Permanent Fatal Error, Faust), Bruce LaFountaine (of Sword Volcano Complex), Matt Howden (Sieben) , Seattle based experimental gtr player Bill Horist, Baby Dee, Current 93, Johann Johannsson, Lustmord, Deathprod, Mariae Nascenti, Ovo, Ernesto Tomasini, Little Annie and been an occasional member of Joseph Budenholzer's Backworld,The Living Jarboe, the international collective of musicians Origami, Matmos and Nurse With Wound.
He has also written music and soundtracks for several commercials, short movies and theatre plays and he has taken part with Bruno Dorella, Marco Milanesio, John Duncan, Steve Roden, Valerio Tricoli and Touch’s artists Jacob Kirkegaard and Stephan Mathieu to the
on-site-sound-installation project “Eco E Narciso” curated by Daniela Cascella and supported and documented on CD by “Wire”
He is also a member, along with Paul Beauchamp of Blind Cave Salamander , project that also features cello player Julia Kent and the sound engineer and producer Marco Milanesio (aka DsorDNE)
The new ( r ) album titled “Drama Queen” will be released in Summer 2010. The album, coproduced by Fabrizio with Marco Milanesio, features special guests appearances by Carla Bozulich and Jamie Stewart further than Daniele “Lo Dev Alm” Pagliero on several tracks.


Press:

Willamette Week:
...disorienting collages that envelope yr head like either a prisoner's black hood or an angel's gauzy veil

Brainwashed:
...mesmerazing

Tiny Mix Tapes:
...the kind of music that you imagine in your head, but never quite find materialized in the real world

Pitchfork Media:
...distorted protuberances

Boomkat:
...everything's going to be alright

Musique Machine:
...like death smiling through a beautiful face at you

Filth Forge:
...from intimate and experimental ballads to a monumental symphonic assault

Rumore:
...the weirdest and most magical of the orchestras

The Stranger:
...an enamored child trying to describe her first glimpse into her future as a fabulous whore

Aquarius:
...Well done, sir.

Discography:

FABRIZIO MODONESE PALUMBO / ( r ):

compilations / guests appereance
- vvaa: Related Prozzzect A (CD: zzz...prod. 1999)
- vvaa: Fire Crawl With Me (10": bar la muerte 2000)
- vvaa: The Black Plague Society (2xCD: mandarangan 2003)
- vvaa: FFWD # 2 ( CD+Book: risonanza magnetica 2004)
- OvO : gtr on "Candida" from "Cicatrici" (CD: Bar La Muerte, 2004)
- Mariae Nascenti: "Morituri Te Salutant" (CD: Final Muzik, 2005)
- Marzia Migliora's "Download Now" (CDR: private art edition 2005)
- Black Sun Productions: operettAmorale (CD: Divine Frequency Rec. 2005)
- Mariae Nascenti: “Fey” (CD: Final Muzik 2006)
- Steve McKay: keys on "Face Up On Dash" from “Michigan and Arcturus” (CD: Radon, 2006)
- vvaa: Eco E Narciso (Provincia Di torino / Wire 2006)
- Morose: “On The Back Of Each Day” (Cd: Suitside, 2007)
- vvaa: “Happy New Ears, 12de editie”
- Mariae Nascenti: “Raise Your Paw To The Sky And Break The Truce”
(CD: Final Muzik, 2007)
- Andrew Liles & Fovea Hex: “Gone Every Evening” (7 “ Die Stadt, 2008)
- Pantaleimon: “Heart Of the Sun” (CD: Durtro , 2008)
- Human Greed: “Black Hill: Midnight At The Blighted Star” (CD:Lumberton Trading, 2008)


eps:
- ( r ) : autumn equinox (CDR: private edition 2001)
- ( r ) : halloween (CDR: private edition 2001)
- ( r ) : winter solstice (CDR: private edition 2001)
- Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo: ep (CD: deathtripper.com 2004)
- Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo + Paul Beauchamp (CD: PREcordings 2004)
- Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo + Bill Horist: NW music (CD: FinalMuzik 2006)

albums:
- ( r ) : humps (CD: radon 2001)
- ( r ) : under the cables, into the wind (CD: important rec. 2005)
- Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo + Marco Milanesio:
L'apocalisse di Giovanni - O.S.T. (CD: O.F.F. / PREcordings 2006)
- ( r ) : In Pink (CD: important rec. 2007)
- Blind Cave Salamander (CD: Blossoming Noise 2007)
- Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo + Ernesto Tomasini: Canes Venatici
(CD: Blossoming Noise: 2008)
- Blind Cave Salamander: Troglobite (CD: Sahyo 2009)

with LARSEN:

compilations / guest appearances:
- vvaa: Related Prozzzect A ( CD: zzz...prod. 1999)
- vvaa: The Vegetable Man 10" Project (10": oggetti volanti 2003)
- vvaa: The Vegetable Man Project vol.2 (CD: oggetti volanti 2004)
- vvaa: Marzia Migliora's "Download Now" ( CDR: private art edition 2005)
- Sieben: "Ogham The Night" (2xCD: Trisol 2005)
- vvaa: The Wire Tapper 14 (CD: The Wire 2005)
- vvaa: Not Alone (5xCD: durtro / jnana 2005)
- Deathprod: 6-track (10": Rune Grammofon 2006)
- Xiu Xiu: Remixed & Covered (5RC, 2007)
- vvaa: “Happy New Ears, 12de editie” (happynewears.be, 2007)

eps:
- Born Under a Bad Influence (CD: pdp 1995)
- split with Mr. Bread (7": bar la muerte 1999)
- 4 (CDR: promo ep 2001)
- H M K E (CD: important records, 2005)

dvds:
- Kryzkognia - live in Gdansk with The Living Jarboe (Tankpictures 2003)
- Larsen And Friends: ABECEDA (CD+DVD: important records 2007)


albums:
- No Arms, No Legs: Identification Problems (CD: pdp 1997)
- Rever (CD: young god records 2002)
- Musm (CD: larsen.to.it / 2xLP: enterruption, 2003/5)
- Play (CD: important records, 2005)
- XXL: !ciautistico! (CD: important records, 2005)
- Seies (CD: important records, 2006)
- Musm II (CD: important records, 2007)
- XXL: ?Spicchiology? (CD: important records, 2007)
- Larsen And Friends: ABECEDA (CD+DVD: important records 2007)
- LLL (LP important records 2008)
- La Fever Lit (CD important records 2008)
- Larsen And Friends: ABECEDA (LP: Behind S.R.B. 2009)



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