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new arrivals 9-22-17

stormy records

13306 michigan ave

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so many great new releases this week!!! wow!! call or email us if there is something you would like to place on hold or do mailorder for. we use realy great mailers!! new items for friday SEPTEMBER 22nd 2017 VATrax Test (Excerpts From The Modular Network 1981-1987)2LP $31.99

Trax Test is the first ever survey of Italy's pioneering, visionary, and influential label and mail art collective Trax, which ran from 1981-1987 as a network for the creation of collaborative projects. The collective included a pre-NWW Colin Potter and some of the earliest work from Masami Akita, aka Merzbow, but also had deep connections with the art world; a few Trax members went on to become famous designers and artists -- Ettore Sottsass of hugely influential Memphis Group even guests on vocals on the last track of the compilation. The whole selection here is rare as heck and sorely in-demand by collectors, much of it now making its vinyl premiere some 30-odd years after the fact. With credit due to compilers Vittore Baroni of Trax and Ecstatic's avowed wave fiend, Alessio Natalizia (Not Waving) -- who was also behind the Mutazione (Italian Electronic & New Wave Underground 1980-1988) compilation (2013) -- Trax Test is a portal to the international scene which laid the grassroots for a proliferation of electronic music over the proceeding decades -- a pioneering part of the infrastructure for independent music distribution which could be said to pre-echo the myriad social networks and platforms today. As Frans De Waard astutely points out in the 16-page booklet, there were no "templates" for this thing back then, meaning artists did everything DIY: from cutting, pasting, and Xeroxing their artwork to experimenting with recording techniques and disseminating their work; all resulting in a wonderfully daring and freeform mosaic of ideas which valued the virtues of ostensibly "unfinished" or open-ended work. Traces of disco, cosmic krautrock, jazz, electro-pop, and industrial noise are all tessellated across the compilation's 25 tracks, with a number of artists and the same equipment -- cheap drum machines, synths, FX and tape -- cropping up in various, mutant formations. This set is right up there with the best compilations from Vinyl On Demand, Light Sounds Dark, or Minimal Wave. Features: Cancer, M.A.Phillips, Nausea, Amok, Mecanique Vegetale, Daniele Ciullini, E-Coli, The Cop Killers, Peter Mayer, Rod Summers, Robin Crozier, Capitalist Pig, Biagio D'egidio, Piermario Ciani, Vittore Baroni, Nocturnal Emissions, De Rezke, Ado Scaini, Enrico Piva, Giancarlo Martina, B Sides, Colin Potter, Naif Orchestra, Merzbow (Vacation Of Merzbow Lowest Music & Arts), Monty Cantsin, Die Form, Utopia Production, Spirocheta Pergoli, Nostalgia, Ptose, Ddaa, Zone Verte, and I Nipoti Del Faraone. Mastered by Matt Colton at Alchemy. NINOS DU BRASILVida Eterna LP $29.99

Nico Vascellari and Nicolò Fortuni come out to play in the dark on their third and deadliest LP as Ninos Du Brasil, taking their fascinations with ritual musics -- from Brazilian Afro-Latin tribal rhythms to library music and freezing Scandinavian BM -- deep into the festering undergrowth of their shared, exotic aesthetic. Where the cover of their first album for Hospital Productions, Novos Mistérios (HOS 411CD, 2014), depicted a naked man covered by a leopard pelt, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd's oil painting of a screeching Chiroptera in flight on the Vida Eterna jacket makes a strong visual allegory for NDB's finer tuned spatial sensitivities inside, with their churning rhythms now embedded in fathoms of dread space and father shaded in layers of processed vocal chants, both punk, metal, and tribalistic. The big highlight is no doubt the closing cut, "Vagalumes Piralampos", where Arto Lindsay, the legendary founder of DNA, chimes in on a stygian, moonlit jag between the eyes of bossa nova, batacuda, and the sort of esoteric electronics also charted by Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement or Cienfuegos. But it only really makes sense after you've expended your energies along with the band thru monstrous techno shakedowns such as "O Veto Chama Seu Nome", the soca-like rush of "Condenado Por Un Idioma Desconhecido", or found yourself lost, without coordinates, in the pitch black breakdown of "No Meio Da Noite" and have been hypnotized by the stalking rhythms and atmospheres of "Em Que O Rio Do Mar Se Toma". The creation of this album, inspired by vampirism, was born from a collaboration between Vascellari and Fortuni with producer Rocco Rampino, whose love of dense textures and low-end bombast masterfully and cleverly couples with the bands explosive percussive charge, resulting in eight tracks that mimic sharp blades scything through a nocturnal jungle. RIYL: Psychedelic Warriors Of Gaia, Female, Vatican Shadow. Cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. Comes in a gatefold jacket. OZKENT, MUSTAFAGenclik Ile Elele LP $25.99

2017 repress, black vinyl. "Originally released in Turkey 1973, Özkent's masterpiece (creation) of an all instrumental Turkish Psychedelic Funk album, filled with classic beats and breaks still inspires long time fans and first time listeners. The funky rhythms, hypnotic percussions, and heavy break beats makes this a holy grail amongst DJ's and music fans alike. Only a handful of copies from the original pressing are known to still exist making this reissue a welcome addition to any record collection. The concept is very complicated, futuristic and free from categorization. Traditional folk songs mixed with rock, jazz, blues, funk and psych. Özkent took traditional turkish folk songs and reconstructed them for the new 'hip' generation. It was recorded live in just one day with some of the best studio musicians in Turkey. The band was made up of 2 drummers, 2 guitarists, 2 percussionists, a bassist and a Hammond B3 organist. Özkent created his own unique guitar sound by adding extra frets and a clutch of effect pedals in order to create quarter notes and emulate turkish traditional scales. Mustafa Özkent has since made arrangements for hundreds of other artists in Turkey. But this unique album documents his most revered work. In the more than 40 years since the Mustafa Özkent Ve Orkestrası recorded Gençlik İle Elele, it seems that the world is still just discovering this gem." SILVER APPLESSilver Apples LP $26.99

2017 repress. Formed in 1967 as a psychedelic electronic duo featuring Dan Taylor on drums and Simeon on a homemade synthesizer consisting of 12 oscillators (and an assortment of sound filters, telegraph keys, radio parts, lab gear and a variety of second hand electronic junk), Silver Apples quickly gained a reputation as New York's leading underground musical expression. Their pulsating rhythmic beats with the use of electronics laid the groundwork for what would become 'Krautrock' Silver Apples was released in 1968 and still remains an innovative and revolutionary album. Their highly influential sound has influenced countless bands from Stereolab, Beastie Boys, Blur and more." VINCENTFast Forward 12" $21.99

Music From Memory return with four tracks drawn from the St. Louis musician Virgil "Vincent" Work Jr.'s cassette debut from 1987, Fast Forward. Following a compilation taken from one of Virgil's collaborative projects, Workdub (MFM 012EP, 2016), this album reflects a more stripped back and raw musical approach. Experimenting with rhythm programming, midi, layering, sequencing, digital effects, and sound synthesis, the Fast Forward sessions grew from a series of late night jams with Vincent's brother Scott. The songs that would form Fast Forward evolved out of improvisation, lending a unique often spatial and searching quality to the tracks. O'DWYER, AINEGallarais LP $24.99

David Toop, on hearing Áine O'Dwyer's Gallarais and the subsequent conversations between November 2016 and January 2017. "Sleep music, the underworld. Twenty-six letters were sent, not far to travel, from Proust, hypersensitive writer to his upstairs neighbour, Marie Williams -- 'I was rather troubled by noise . . . I was trying to sleep off an attack. But at 8am the tapping on the parquet was so distinct that the Veronal didn't work and I woke with the attack still raging.' Marie Williams played harp, though it was not the harp that dragged Proust from the fumes of a bedroom armed against asthma attacks, cork-lined to smother noise.. . . Proust spoke of an imperceptible breath, 'like the wind breathing into the stem of a reed', mingling with the subdued song of his dying grandmother's breathing, 'swift and light . . . gliding like a skater towards the delicious fluid', the human sighs released at the approach of death . . . 'Who's there?' cries out the old man, stark terror pulled awake at the faintest of noises from pitch black vicinity of an unseen doorway. . . . There is one voice or two, whispers of shaping breath thrown into far obscure and occult recesses of the space as if spirits on the wing whose feathers shriek and keen. They are swans with near-human heads, carrying the lightness of souls, moving between dry land of the living, subterranean rivers of the dead. Sleep music they make, its murmurs written by the method of 'passive writing', a transcribing of tongues unknown to all but the most open of listeners. . . . The space was a cave, a tunnel, a room without windows. A skull without eyes, ears, nostrils, mouth, though as Beckett had noticed, the soul turns in this cage as in a lantern, silence 'beating against the walls and being beaten back by them'; the space was a chapel, upturned boat, perhaps the curragh that carried Maildun and his crew to the Isle of Weeping, the Isle of Speaking Birds, the Palace of Solitude. . . . 'Within a house described by Mary Butts, in Ashe of Rings (1998), the bronze note of a clock rings, 'like a body falling bound into deep water'. . . . The body descended into the tunnel, never to return as itself." Sky Music: A Tribute To Terje RypdalCD $16.99

Guitarist and composer Terje Rypdal (1947) is probably as close as one gets to a living legend in Norwegian music. He has received a number of awards, including three Norwegian Grammies (Spellemannpris), the last being the honorary award in 2005. Sky Music is a heartfelt celebration of an inspirational artist and truly unique guitarist who hasn't fully received the due credit and recognition he deserves for over 50 years of music making. Initiated by the experimental US guitarist and lifelong Rypdal fan Henry Kaiser, Rune Grammofon put together an all-star band including keyboardist and long-time Rypdal side-kick Ståle Storløkken (Elephant9, Supersilent), bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (Scorch Trio, The Thing), drummer Gard Nilssen (Bushman's Revenge), guitarists Even H. Hermansen (Bushman´s Revenge) and Hedvig Mollestad, Finnish guitarist Raoul Björkenheim (Scorch Trio), and Swedish guitarist Reine Fiske (Dungen). Kaiser also played and produced while Hans Magnus Ryan (Motorpsycho) added bits and pieces and Jim O'Rourke beamed in his exquisite contributions to "Sunrise" from Tokyo. Bill Frisell, Nels Cline, and David Torn delivered their solo interpretations, Cline with the aid of cellist Erik Friedlander. AUBURN LULL Hypha CD $16.99

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The reclusive midwesterners return from dormancy with nine stunning, elegantly sparse tracks that showcase the band at its most focused, melodic, and mysterious. While distinctly sounding like Auburn Lull, Hypha veers into uncharted territory, delivering surprises at every turn. The hallmark cavernous guitars and vast, slow-motion expanses, though still present, are reigned in, restrained, and paired with a newfound sense of minimalism and a broader palette of sounds, textures, and shapes. While the band have existed for more than 20 years, they've always remained a well-kept secret to the wider indie community. Hypha is a brilliant example of why the band's rich textures and precise compositions are adored by so many. "... discerning ears will find that Auburn Lull's rich tapestry is as dangerously hypnotic and transporting as it is soothing." --Tiny Mix Tapes WIRE, THE#404 October 2017 $10.50

"Jlin, Frances Morgan profiles the Chicago footwork outlier. Meanwhile, inside the issue... Tomokazu Hayashi essays a user's guide to the pioneering electronica of Yellow Magic Orchestra, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Haruomi Hosono. Geeta Dayal meets veteran Swiss visual artist and kosmische music producer Walter Wegmüller. Invisible Jukebox: Penny Rimbaud; Epiphanies: Noel Meek; Inner Sleeve: Paul Steinbeck; Global Ear: Portland; Unofficial Channels: Pop Not Slop. And in the Bites section, we feature: Hanba!, PSF reissues on Black Editions, Marianna Simnett and Dominique Lawarlee." GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR Luciferian Towers lp $22.99

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The sound of Godspeed’s radical fury takes a sideline on their impeccably composed sixth album. It contains their most melodic and powerfully positive-sounding music to date. RITUAL HOWLS 12" Their Body $14.99

Ritual Howls are a unique brand of industrial rock with death jangle-like guitars. Collaboratively, Ritual Howls create a surreal, introspective gloom that could fuel a disco in hell, a soundtrack to your favorite nightmares and most grisly fantasies MOGWAI Every Country's Sun clear vinyl lp $26.99

Every Country's Sun takes two decades of Mogwai's signature, contrasting sounds - towering intensity, pastoral introspection, synth-rock minimalism, DNA-detonating volume - and distills it, beautifully, into 56 concise minutes of gracious elegance, hymnal trance-rock, and transcendental euphoria. Produced by psych-rock luminary Dave Fridmann, it's a structural soundscape built from stark foundations up; from a gentle, twinkling, synth-rock spectre to a solid, blown-out, skyward-thrusting obelisk. There's percussive, dream-state electronics ("Coolverine"), church organs as chariots of existential fire ("Brain Sweeties"), tremulous, foreboding bleeping -Â possibly from a dying android ("aka 47"). Their most transportive album yet, it also hosts their most fully realized art-pop sing-along of their storied history, "Party In The Dark," a head-spinning disco-dream double-helix echoing New Order and The Flaming Lips, featuring Braithwaite's seldom-heard melodic vocals declaring he's "directionless and innocent, searching for another piece of mind". This is music as a keep-out chrysalis, protective audio armor through exalting organs and portentous, dissonant guitar fuzz warping at the edges, bending the world inside-out into a reality in which you'd much rather live. The last three songs ascend into explosive exorcism, closing with the colossal "Every Country's Sun," its searching intensity whooshing towards infinity in a dazzling cosmic crescendo. LINA TULLGREN lp Won $19.99

Lina Tullgren is from Southern Maine just over the border of the northernmost seacoast of New Hampshire. It's an unexpected location for artistic incubation, but osmosis is bound to occur when you grow up surrounded by family, friends, and weirdos interacting at all times with their own interpretations of creative output. Shifting in trainings and traditions, the 23 year old eventually found herself a voice with the electric guitar, uniquely flavored and shaped from the many years of fiddle lessons and classical technique. The shifts in genre and instrumentation are stark, but important for her growth as a songwriter. Lina's morphing interaction with music has mirrored a growing determination to harness her ability to melodically and lyrically express complex emotions - a rare gift at such a young age.With 2016's Wishlist EP - recorded to tape at the home of band mate Ty Ueda - Lina proved an ability to craft simple, introspective and succinct songs, each one a pulsing glow leaving you both hollow and whole, alone but never lonely. It is on Lina's debut album Won that we reap the full rewards of this newfound confidence in expression and rejection of internal hesitation. "The writing doesn't necessarily get easier, but I feel more comfortable tapping into emotions and going to those places that need to be written about. Won, as it turned out, is the product that I have been hearing and picturing in my head as I write and listen to music." It is the product of what happens when you push past the fear of what it means to think out loud - to become accountable for your internal struggles by way of manifesting your ideas into songs that are then free to grow apart from you, to exist on their own while always remaining specifically implicative of you. Now backed by a full band, each track manages to remain piercingly intimate, sometimes brief, and always honest, while gaining a wholly new sense of gestation both sonically and lyrically. BEHIND THE SHADOW DROPS lp Harmonic $20.99

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Behind the Shadow Drops is the new solo endeavor from Takaakira 'Taka' Goto, founding guitarist and composer of iconic Japanese experimental rock group, MONO. Established in 2016, Behind the Shadow Drops combines Goto's disparate but commensurate interests in many different forms of music, most notably ambient, trip-hop, industrial minimalism, and modern classical. Recorded at Goto's home studio and mixed with esteemed producer and percussionist, John McEntire (Tortoise, The Sea and Cake, Yo La Tengo), H a r m o n i c merges Goto's dynamic, moody compositions with McEntire's renowned drum programming and percussive sensibilities. What begins as a passing resemblance to the more melancholy work of Goto's ensemble, MONO, slowly mutates into something otherworldly, submerging in a symphony of synths, drum machines, noise loops, and mournful strings (courtesy of Los Angeles experimental cellist, Helen Money). Resembling something like waves rippling in the ocean under a cloudy moonlit sky, H a r m o n i c is as eerie as it is beautiful - a vast abyss punctuated by seemingly endless glimmers of light. OMNI lp Multi-Task $15.99

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Atlanta, GA trio Omni charges out of the gate in 2016, stunning everyone within earshot with their debut longplayer, "Deluxe"; a dizzyingly refreshing amalgam of wiry post-punk jitters & a dash of zen cool. "Multi-task" is their latest offering & all signs point to the coveted goal of "next level".Guitarist Frankie Broyles (ex-Balkans/Deerhunter) & bassist/vocalist Philip Frobos (Carnivores) crafted "Deluxe"s eleven tracks in their practice space with friend & engineer Nathaniel Higgins. They returned to Higgins for "Multi-task", recording basic drum tracks at Higgins' home studio & overdubbing bass, guitar, vocals & more during two separate trips to a remote cabin in the woods near Vienna, Georgia."Multi-task" is a more musically adventurous step forward for the band, keeping the frantic, fleet-fingered fingerpicking of Broyles' guitar work & Frobos' dead-cool delivery while expanding their musical palette & to include whispers of post-Roxy glam & Postcard Records pop. "Multi-task" balances the bandâ€™s trademark off-kilter & unconventional jams with an elegance not found in many of their contemporaries, Omni pulls it off with grace & style, still whirring on their minimalist funk-fused agit-pop while creating an album that is awash in the excitement of new love, or fleeting attraction - a journey from that dizzying buzz of first date pheromones found twirling on the dance floor to the cab ride cool-down to home (or wherever.) WAYFARING STRANGERS Acid Nightmaresdouble lp $26.99

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first few copies will come with a cool numero record tote bag and deluxe label catalogAs the hippie movement hurdled towards its emanate demise, bad vibes infiltrated the rock world. Tainted LSD, loud motorcycles, and a series of brutal deaths spawned inspiration for guitar-wielding teenagers across the globe. Implementing deafening fuzz and satanic screams to create their proto-metal monstrosities, short-lived stoner bands pressed their lysergic experiments in microscopic quantities before blacking out entirely. Lifted from the ashes of the acid rock hell fire are 18 distorted tales of dope fiends, pill poppers, and the baddest of trips. Deluxe 2LP comes housed in a blacklight poster-style jacket, replete with flocking and lysergic neon. 24 pages documenting the creeping existential dread of the hard rock underground are tucked into the gatefold pocket alongside two dead dinosaur-heavy LPs. Compact disc is packaged in standard Numero slipcase, with digipak and 40-page book, limited to 2000 copies. METZ lp Strange Peace $18.99

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“We tracked fourteen songs in four days. It was the first time we felt confident enough to just play live and roll tape,” METZ guitarist/vocalist Alex Edkins explained of the recording process in a press statement. “Strange Peace is much more diverse and varied than anything we’ve done before, which was exhilarating, but terrifying, too. We took the tapes home to Toronto feeling like we’d made the record we wanted to make.” In terms of theme, the tracks on the LP are said to be about “uncertainty.” “They’re about recognizing that we’re not always in control of our own fate, and about admitting our mistakes and fears,” Edkins continued. “They’re about finding some semblance of peace within the chaos.” Waxahatchee - American Weekend $20.99

LIMITED EDITION PRESSING ON WHITE VINYL Flat Duo Jets - Pink Gardenia / Man With The Golden Arm lp $22.99

The two a-sides here - Pink Gardenia and Man With The Golden Arm - were both originally released on the self-titled debut album by the Flat Duo Jets (1990), and have never been released on vinyl. These two b-sides are both outtakes from the original sessions for the album, but have never before been released. All four songs have been remastered, and are being released on special colored vinyl, in a deluxe gatefold package. Disc One - on pink vinyl 1a. Pink Gardenia 1b. Penetration Disc Two - on gold vinyl 2a. Man With The Golden Arm 2b. Bumblebee Boogie Grubbs, David - Creep Mission lp $24.99

Creep Mission is an album of instrumental compositions with Grubbs's effortlessly recombinant electric guitar at its core, and its m.o. is to go both deep and wide. The album goes deep in the sense that the guitar becomes the relentless, meditative focus of these songs without words, and it goes wide in that these pieces utilize a discontinuous set of arrangements that make the most out of an extraordinary group of musicians convened for the mission at hand. Wand - Plum lp $20.99

Wand are back, with music colored weird orange and rouged to Plum. Teeming, dense, at times wildly multichromatic sounds; an idiom, an inside joke, a talisman, a bookmark, a mood ring, a long evening's shadow of loss and longing. And meanwhile all the shifting weather, the wireless signals, the helicopters overhead.... Tricky - ununiform lp $25.99

Tricky returns with his 13th album, ununiform, out in September on his own label False Idols via !K7 Music. It's a delicate, storming, intricate album that sees Tricky take perhaps his most radical step yet a journey into happiness and contentment.It's a record that shows the legendary British producer confront his legacy, history, family & even death itself. And in all of this, he finds the strangest, least familiar thing & peace. Laraaji - Bring On The Sun + Sun Gong (CD) $16.99

Laraaji's Bring On The Sun is a collection of brand new studio recordings, recorded by Davey Jewell (Peaking Lights/Flaming Lips) and mixed by Carlos Niño (Leaving Records). A magical mixtape of tracks that run the full gamut of ‘Laraaji music’, from blissed-out percussive jams to reflective vocal hymnals to trance-inducing drones. Available as a 10-track double CD with Bring On The Sun on the first disc, and a bonus disc of Sun Gong, the previously limited run vinyl-only pre-cursor to the main album. Laraaji - Bring On The Sun (Vinyl) $25.99

Laraaji's Bring On The Sun is a collection of brand new studio recordings, recorded by Davey Jewell (Peaking Lights/Flaming Lips) and mixed by Carlos Niño (Leaving Records). A magical mixtape of tracks that run the full gamut of ‘Laraaji music’, from blissed-out percussive jams to reflective vocal hymnals to trance-inducing drones. Available as an 8-track double vinyl LP which includes download card. Luna - A Sentimental Education lp $26.99

Thirteen years after they released their last new music, beloved indie rock band LUNA return with two releases: an LP of covers: A Sentimental Education, and a 10” EP containing six new Luna instrumentals: A Place of Greater Safety. Both releases will also be available in one double-CD wallet package. The covers album finds Luna covering the Cure, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Rolling Stones, YES, Fleetwood Mac, Mercury Rev and others. Luna are touring North America in November 2017. Upcoming events at Trinosophes 9/22: New Music Detroit's Strange and Beautiful Music opening night with m usic by Khemia Ensemble, Juxtatonal: Jocelyn Zelasko and Bryan Hayslett, YAK, Joel Peterson (with Lisa Raschiatore clarinet, James Greer viola, Abby Alwin cello), New Music Detroit (featuring cellist Una O’Riordan) and Rebecca Goldberg 10/10: Circuits Des Yeux 10/14: Grails Related 9/23: Trinosophes present Ryan Jewell Duo at night two of Strange and Beautiful Music at The Max M Fisher Music Center . 10/26: Joel Peterson original score to silent classic Der Golem at Toledo Museum of Art EL CLUB UPCOMING SHOWS (most shows all ages - ticket will say all ages or not)remember - tickets are cash only. this saves us all the service charges!! the spits, screaming females sat sept 30th $15

cold cave sun oct 1st $18

joyner lucas mon oct 2nd $12

touche amore fri oct 6th $25

tokimonsta sat oct 7th $15

the bronx tues oct 10th $17

algiers fri oct 20th $13

giraffage sun nov 5th $17

kelela tues nov 7th $20

parquet courts thurs nov 16th $17

daniel ceasar sun nov 19th $15 MARBLE BAR (all shows 18 and over) tops fri sept 22nd $10

nude party tues oct 10th $5

pickwick thurs oct 12th $12

grails sat oct 14th $13

cults sat oct 21st $19

hoop sun oct 22nd $5

bully wed nov 8th $15

shy girls thur nov 9th $13

cold specks wed nov 29th $10 ASSEMBLE SOUND (18 and over) the blow, ema fri nov 17th $13

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Lorna Mary Ciani: "Amo i personaggi secondari" published on Cosplay Hub

Lorna Mary Ciani: "Amo i personaggi secondari"

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Nome: Lorna Mary Ciani Nazionalità: Italiana Cosplayer dal: 2006

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Italo-britannica, Lorna Mary Ciani studia Interpretariato e Traduzione e vive a Roma. Si racconta così:

“Nella vita non faccio granché a parte studiare, lavorare e mangiare dolci, e il poco tempo libero che prima dedicavo allo sport e al disegno da un paio d’anni lo dedico al cosplay.”

Non è sicuramente una cosplay “social”. Non ha una pagina dedicata al cosplay e pubblica pochi contenuti riguardanti il suo hobby. Chi ha avuto la fortuna di incontrarla in fiera ha sicuramente apprezzato la qualità dei suoi costumi, la cura dell’interpretazione e lo stile, elegante e sofisticato, davanti all’obiettivo. Chi invece ha avuto modo di scambiarci due parole in uno dei gruppi dedicati al cosplay su Facebook sa anche che Lorna è una ragazza che parla chiaro. Due aspetti per cui abbiamo voluto conoscere il suo punto di vista sul cosplay.

Quando (e perché) hai iniziato a fare cosplay?

Il mio primissimo cosplay risale al 2006, dopodiché lasciai perdere fino al 2013, quando ripresi a frequentare saltuariamente il Romics. Solo di recente ho deciso di dedicarmi al cosplay con più impegno. Per me è un’alternativa al disegno: mi è sempre piaciuto disegnare i miei personaggi preferiti, e il cosplay mi da la possibilità di dar loro vita in un modo nuovo.

Non pubblichi molte foto dei tuoi cosplay.

Vero! Pensandoci, non ho nemmeno una mia pagina Facebook… e non metto quasi mai mie foto sui vari gruppi cosplay. Credo sia un misto di pigrizia e di complessi sul mio aspetto che mi porta a farmi i fatti miei. Però a mia discolpa ogni tanto capita che condivida le mie foto in qualche gruppo per chiedere consiglio o per scherzare con gli altri iscritti… ancora non sono del tutto asociale! Ma forse dovrei impegnarmi di più a inserirmi, anche perché si conoscono un sacco di persone simpatiche.

Con qualche rarissima eccezione, interpreti spesso personaggi “minori”. È una casualità o ti piace prendere “strade meno battute”?

Ci riflettevo di recente. Interpreto i miei personaggi preferiti, ed effettivamente non è una casualità che mi piacciano sempre personaggi secondari, lasciano molto più spazio all’immaginazione rispetto ai personaggi principali! C’entra anche il fatto che non mi piace vedere sempre gli stessi personaggi in fiera, anche se credo che ognuno sia libero di realizzare il cosplay che preferisce. Ma quando mi capita di incontrare cosplay di personaggi secondari impazzisco di felicità: ogni serie è piena di fantastici personaggi che nessuno ricorda o interpreta, riuscire a vederli in carne e ossa è un privilegio per me! Spero di dare le stesse emozioni ai pochi che in fiera riconoscono i miei personaggi.

Lorna interpreta Andrea Beaumont, il Fantasma del film Batman: la maschera del fantasma

Qual è il tuo cosplay più riuscito o quello a cui sei maggiormente legata?

In entrambe i casi è Anko Mitarashi di Naruto. Complice la scarsità epocale di cosplayer che interpretano Anko, anche i selfie allo specchio nei suoi panni attirano molta più attenzione su Instagram di qualsiasi altro mio cosplay completo e ben fotografato (triste ma vero!). È anche il mio personaggio preferito in assoluto, quindi portarla è veramente una gioia – sorvolando sul fatto che il coprifronte mi fa venire il mal di testa, le scarpe mi distruggono i piedi e la tuta a rete mi crea un sacco di problemi. Ma si sopporta tutto. Il divertimento si paga anche così.

Hai interpretato un original “Mamma Romics” e Darth Talon, entrambi in body painting. Quanto tempo richiede la preparazione di un cosplay del genere?

Per quanto possa essere estenuante mi diverte molto prestarmi al body painting. Non contando la pianificazione del colore e la realizzazione di eventuali accessori, sempre a opera di Stefania Raneri e Michele Santini di BOOM Makeup, solamente la colorazione impiega sulle 5-6 ore. Ma non mi pesano, la compagnia di Stefania e Michele è ottima e il risultato delle loro fatiche è sempre fantastico! Con Darth Talon le ore sono passate in un baleno. All’edizione precedente con Mamma Romics invece faceva molto più freddo e tirava vento: tremavo come un agnellino e il tempo sembrava scorrere a rilento. Qualche giorno dopo mi venne anche un raffreddore tremendo. Come ho già detto… il divertimento si paga.

Darth Talon da Star Wars nelle foto di Annalisa Cicchetti (sinistra) e Lorenzo Giorgieri

Crei da sola i tuoi cosplay o li commissioni?

Dipende, a volte li faccio da me, ma il più delle volte ne commissiono una parte. Con le parrucche me la cavo, col sartoriale non molto e comunque mi tocca fare tutto a mano, quindi anche quello che creo da me mi ruba tantissimo tempo. Per gli abiti oltre le mie capacità mi rivolgo alle mie sarte e cosmakers di fiducia, Periwinkle Corner e Bias Dreams – anzi, mi spiace non essere ricca per poterle finanziare a tempo pieno, amo i loro lavori.

Per il mio ultimo compleanno sono arrivata a regalarmi un cosplay firmato Piece of Cake. Non avevo mai commissionato un cosplay completo, in realtà quasi mi sento in colpa… ma non sono neanche lontanamente pentita.

La comunità dei cosplayer sembra più vibrante che mai. Quali sono i cambiamenti che hai notato in questi ultimi anni?

Il livello dei costumi è aumentato vertiginosamente. Alle due fiere che mi capitò di frequentare anni e anni fa i cosplay notevoli si contavano sulle dita di una mano. Adesso mi sembra quasi più difficile trovare cosplay fatti male che fatti bene! Allo stesso tempo, però, credo sia diventato più difficile inserirsi per i cosplayer esordienti. Dieci anni fa quasi tutti avevano costumi mediocri, non ci si faceva nemmeno caso.

Cosa ti piace di meno?

L’aria di competizione e di gara all’ultimo like che si respira sia in fiera che online, e il veleno che genera la competizione.

Bulma da Dragon Ball. Foto di Simone Greco

Molte cosplayer si sono affacciate su Patreon, Twitch e simili. Credi che il cosplay possa davvero diventare un lavoro?

Certo, come ogni altra cosa! Se si hanno l’interesse e le capacità, e anche la fortuna di riuscirci. Naturalmente credo che solo in pochi riusciranno davvero a rendere il loro hobby un lavoro, ma non biasimo chi ci prova.

Bullismo nel cosplay. Ti è mai successo? Esiste davvero o è semplicemente un’estensione di un fenomeno più generale?

Fortunatamente mi è capitato in un’unica occasione, un simpaticone che mi vide in fiera e mi cercò poi sui social esclusivamente per insultarmi. Ma il bullismo è un fenomeno pervasivo nella comunità cosplay, e di solito è a opera di altri cosplayer. Per definizione i cosplayer sono persone che almeno un minimo si mettono in mostra, e questo può generare reazioni negative anche nei nostri stessi ‘colleghi’. Si può essere presi di mira se si è troppo magri, troppo grassi, troppo scollate, non abbastanza belli per il personaggio, quando si porta una versione semi-originale, quando il costume non è fatto bene o è stato commissionato, la lista è infinita. Ormai è facile venire attaccati persino per la semplice scelta del personaggio. Poi che sia un’estensione di un fenomeno generale probabilmente è vero, ma essendo la nostra comunità abbastanza ristretta si avverte con più facilità.

Ti ispiri a qualche cosplayer in particolare?

No, sono molto “fuori dal giro”. Non seguo e non credo di avere nemmeno presente i cosplayer più bravi o più famosi o più belli, quelli più popolari che molti imitano. Ecco, ho presente Jessica Nigri, sento dire che molte si ispirano al suo stile. Personalmente non prendo ispirazione da nessuno e seguo esclusivamente chi interpreta personaggi che amo, anche se si tratta di cosplayer alle prime armi.

Ora, la fotografia. Che genere di fotografia cosplay preferisci? Sei per il realismo o per la post-produzione pesante?

Credo che la post-produzione ci voglia, sia per eliminare i difettucci che abbiamo tutti sia per rendere il cosplayer più simile possibile al personaggio che interpreta, anche se, come per tutte le cose, il troppo storpia. Dobbiamo pur sembrare persone, non bamboline! Anche gli sfondi a volte meriterebbero un upgrade, soprattutto se le foto sono state scattate in fiera con background poco adatti al personaggio.

Kagura da Inuyasha. Foto di Carlo Franchi (sinistra e foto di copertina) e Sara Poli

Quale sarà la prossima fiera a cui parteciperai?

Grazie a una mia amica che si è offerta di ospitarmi per un paio di giorni -cosa farei senza le amiche cosplayer- potrei riuscire a presenziare al mio primo Rimini Comix. Anche se sono un po’ in ansia, soffro molto il caldo e al sole mi brucio subito, non sono certa sia la fiera ideale per una scozzese!

Stai lavorando a un nuovo progetto?

Errr… infinite versioni di Anko Mitarashi! Per l’anno prossimo invece sto valutando Eskara/Mars di Ultimate Muscle, Ravager dei Teen Titans e Ahmanet del nuovo film La Mummia. Il prossimo cosplay che porterò però sarà quello commissionato dai Piece of Cake della nuova protagonista di Star Wars, Rey.

Anko da Naruto nelle foto di Martina Brui (sinistra) e Carlo Caputo

Quali sono i tuoi interessi oltre al cosplay?

Il disegno, ma da circa un anno non ho più tempo da dedicarci. Il cosplay ha preso del tutto il sopravvento, e di tempo libero non ne ho molto!

Quali sono le tue serie preferite?

Prediligo gli shonen come Naruto, Shaman King, Megaman, Kinnikuman, Inuyasha, Detective Conan… anche se ogni tanto ci scappa qualche shojo, ad esempio Rossana e Tokyo MewMew.

Un consiglio per chi si affaccia su questo mondo per la prima volta?

Molto banalmente, il mondo del cosplay è come ogni altro ambito della vita, c’è del bello e del brutto. Fatevi coraggio e non rinunciate alle prime critiche che ricevete.

La foto in copertina è di Damiano Coraci

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