
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