Album release:
Un Soffio Elettrico
by Sofia Pozdniakova & Giovanni Mancuso

We are excited to announce the third release of COSMOGRAM: the contemporary chamber music album “Un Soffio Elettrico” by Giovanni Mancuso and Sofia Pozdniakova.

This debut record is a journey that spans from medieval music to American minimalism, presenting original songs while also exploring the repertoire of twentieth-century greats such as Feldman, Riley, Glass, and Cage, which the Venetian duo reinterprets with freedom and sensitivity.

From the ecstatic sublimation of singing in Hildegard Von Bingen, the linear purity of songs by Cage and Feldman, the nostalgic tenderness of Terry Riley, and the hypnotic ostinatos of Philip Glass, to the kaleidoscopic structures of Mancuso and Pozdniakova’s new works, the breath of the voice and the electricity of the organ are ever-present in their complementary and contrasting nature.

John Cage - EXPERIENCE No.2

Hildegard von Bingen - O VIRTUS SAPIENTAE

Philip Glass - BED, ARIA

Terry Riley - IN THE SUMMER*

Morton Feldman - ONLY*

Giovanni Mancuso - SUDBA SONG

Philip Glass - MUSIC IN CONTRARY MOTION

Sofia Pozdniakova - LORIKALUM

* arrangements by
Sofia Pozdniakova & Giovanni Mancuso


Un Soffio Elettrico

Sofia Pozdniakova 
Voice and electric organs

Giovanni Mancuso
Electric organs and synthesizers

Mixed and mastered by
Louis McGuire

Produced by Emanuele Wiltsch Barberio

Recorded at Cosmo (Venezia)
in october 2023

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