Gianni Maroccolo
ALONE ZERO - NOTTURNO ITALIANO

[DPX RA/ZE] A Draft Of June.

.ADITUS) Notturno Italiano was a historic program of national foreign radio broadcasting by RAI, using night-time medium waves to reach an important part of Europe. It debuted in July 1952 (Notturno d'Italia until 1968) and was closed on December 31, 2011. The notable opening themes were Bonne Nuite Chérie and Giuseppe Verdi's Waltz. The broadcast would air from midnight to approximately six in the morning, although it often had different time slots in the night schedule over its history.
Informative message, National Anthem, Midnight News (Italian time), interval music, then the dedicated stations would disconnect from the parent station and begin their programming. There would be hourly reconnections with Radio 1's FM network for appointments with the Giornale Radio, foreign language newscasts, and the Marine Bulletin. Besides this, the lineup mainly included music from other times, introduced with impeccable diction that was almost impossible to hear elsewhere, an inimitable format.
It ended with a short closing message and the Time Signal.
The Director was Piero Galletti. A cult program, its broadcast was mainly aimed at night workers, a niche of classical music enthusiasts, night owls, and an educated audience.
The early musical offering was recorded on long-duration tape for a tape recorder connected to an electromechanical device dedicated to reel switching. RAI had one of the largest shortwave facilities of the time, using 1200 Kilowatts of power for the transmitter at Rome II and producing one of the best foreign radio services on the Continent.
Low Frequency ~ High Frequency. Bandwidth for Radio Amateurs.
The Notturno Italiano was also broadcast on the 4th Channel of the Wired Broadcast.
Milan, Turin, Rome, Naples. Times of SIP before TELECOM modems.

The Wired Broadcast still works, it is an analog transmission mode born in Switzerland in 1931, which replaced AM; the radio broadcast is through a telecommunications network that reaches the users via telephone cabling installed in buildings using fixed telephony. It uses an operational technique similar to ADSL. The two service types are incompatible. Wired Broadcast was the charm for both content and container, the brilliant listening of music, without disturbances, without interferences, without any advertising interruptions. A Stereophonic Auditorium.
Over time, technologies evolved, and it became possible to follow Notturno Italiano also via satellite, internet, digital terrestrial, and smartphone. RAI's Audioteca in Saxa Rubra began automatic broadcasting with computerized systems, turning the "Tape Recorder Room" practically into a museum. Having gone through all these technological advances allowed the broadcast to be received in various parts of the world, not only for the benefit of fellow countrymen.
Technically, shortwave can receive a radio signal from every part of the globe. Analog Wired Broadcast is still used, although residually, for instance, in environments like hotels. Alpha Electronics audio cable distributions.

ALONE is the new ongoing project of Gianni Maroccolo's creation and distribution, with Contempo Records. It is a particular plan, in progress, not a closed album but a catalog of several biannual publications, all on the 17th of December and June. Two volumes have been published till now (with a cliffhanger in the middle), with the first series expecting four albums between 2018 and 2020. A free idea of music production where Maroccolo enhances his vision away from artistic and commercial schemes. The records are mostly instrumental, and those who know him well had already enjoyed the versions without voices in A.C.A.U. in CARPA DIEM 1, a record available only by purchasing the original vinyl in a limited edition. ALONE should be read in the Italian-English dual meaning, vital aura, but also compositional and personal solitude, often softened by esteemed guests.
A continuous album, a proposal of musical seriality in the form of a series that repeats an action from the CPI times, with its stylistic, thematic, and editorial unity, guaranteed by Marco Cazzato's splendid environmental illustrations and Mirco Salvadori's musical tales for every booklet. Individual Hard Disk Recording.
Among the grooves, Maroccolo's unchanged youthful love for electronic music, Kosmische Musik mainly intended for its programmatic values of emancipation from forms, vertical spiritual quest, and freedom from preconceptions. Tangerine Dream, Cluster, Harmonia. Several collaborations based on mutual esteem exist, such as the one with Edda; in VOL. 1, the collaboration with IOSONOUNCANE in Tundra stands out, a 17-minute-plus rave, a very successful blend of the softer Autechre, more cyber-ethnic FSOL, and personally, the more intense systemic errors of Retina.it, all as if remixed by Popol Vuh, with a transparent percussive circularity placed at the beginning and end. Beyond these misplaced (later faded) comparisons to what was the first-ever listening, a jam absorbed into a complex of things intentionally filtered through Maroccolo's and Incani's musical sensitivities, their characteristics remain distinct and recognizable, a captivating vortex.

December 25, 1996. The Yohan ship carries over 400 migrants from India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. At night, it collides with another ship off Portopalo, in the province of Syracuse, the F174 coming from Malta and heading to Sicily. The F174 breaks apart and sinks, dragging 283 people to the depths. Local fishermen started finding corpses around January 2, 1997, but said nothing to authorities to avoid interrogations and the seizure of fishing boats.
This disaster remained unknown for five years. VOL. 2 of ALONE narrates this tragedy, with each track capturing a moment of this disaster. More sorrowful volume than the first, strengthened by Marina Rei's fervor on the drums in some pieces and Alessandra Celletti's silvered piano in Submersio. Then Howie B.
Angela Baraldi's torment in The Abyss by Chelsea Wolfe makes a difference.

ALONE ZERO - NOTTURNO ITALIANO is, instead, a private publication reserved only for subscribers of the first four volumes of the series. Packaged in a Night Blue cardboard sleeve, two multitracks, '00:00-03:00' and '03:01-06:00', 49 minutes representing six hours. Everything is entirely instrumental except for some sampled and/or manipulated vox. A fundamentally electro-acoustic composition, a sort of self-cut'n'paste of rarely driven sound, at times grainy, radio-like, almost low-fi, with many ambient sections and quiet breaks. Silence is important; a new atmosphere gains value precisely because there was nothing before. The intervals of silence are as significant as noise after all, wrote Virginia Woolf.
No image to admire and no phrase to interpret; it proceeds along a path immersed in the night and its friendly shadow.
Notturno Italiano is a musical event that radiates stereo panoramas with the charm of an old mono broadcast of thematic music, spreading resonances as if really listening to a radio in a nocturnal session, turning the frequency knobs. The irdial pulsations of The Conet Project, the remote reception of a program broadcast by Radio London of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop collective. Lunar sound scenarios from West to East, metal low, cables, synth abstractions, cybernetic funky towards the end, Düsseldorf power plant distortions of industrial splendor. Then the darkness that flees before the dawn.

Marok evidently loves radio, he loved the Berlin trilogy and also loved the Kraftwerk who made krautrock. He became famous as a post-punk bassist, everything pulled back, but he has always embraced the fascination of electronics with interest and pleasure, even when playing new wave.
He reaffirms himself as a versatile producer at the control cabin for the hard blues of Roman Life in the Woods, records, and melds with the no wave of Lydia Lunch in a recording of Patty Waters. He does still more things. He maintains and enhances his particular profile offstage. He expands his complexity, which doesn't diminish nor can be explained in a sentence. When this Italian music expert hammers the strings, he dents other strings; when he caresses them, he is capable of stirring something inside your stomach. He produces beauty that isn't immediate. He produces a beauty that needs to be sought, almost unique, certainly rare for those who know how to recognize it. There are never any signs of waning inspiration. A writer, a musician, must almost necessarily be solitary individuals, and Maroccolo seems to be a perfect loner. At night, listening to the seas' waves under the soft luminous gaze of his skylight, composing.
Faithful to the line, even when the line isn't there or is doubtful or puzzled.
The night stirs something within him. Alone to be Continued. (EXITUS.