Pop.tones:  25 marzo, dalle 22.35

La puntata del 25 marzo si svolgerà chiacchierando in studio ed ascoltando alcuni brani live di Francesco Giannico in arte "mark hamn" , musicista di elettronica ambient/folk/sperimentale della provincia di taranto che ha pubblicato da poco il suo ultimo disco "to the naked eye" per la cdr label Muertepop.com.
http://www.myspace.com/markhamn

frequenze

LECCE CITTA’
95.100 MHz

LECCE PROVINCIA SUD
92.300 MHz

TARANTO
107.300 MHz

Ai microfoni, come sempre, martinik e disorder pixie, con hans al dark box ed alla regia.

Out Now ! ! !

Mark Hamn's New Release "To the Naked Eye"

Released new Mark Hamn's works "To the naked Eye", nine tracks plus a bonus video track. You can reserve your copy since now mailing mark_hamn@yahoo.it or shop_at_muertepop.com. You can buy this release ( 9 EUR or 13 USD - shipping included ) and all the future ones by a paypal account. To the naked eye of Francesco Giannico aka Mark Hamn isn’t exactly a concept album, but it try to aggregate the tracks around the same idea: the involution of post-modern humanity in the globalisation age, or more simply, a sour consideration about our days. The album title “To the naked eye” want to remark the essence of the problem: despite the media aggression regarding the catastrophes and existing problems at a global level, majority of people, that could change this degradation, do nothing, even if the can see the problems “to the naked-eyes”. For this reason the title tracks like “Academic Dishumanity” or “An omelette century” or “Overheated Century”. Everything is freezed in the final video track named “I’m Happy”. A title like this, after nine tragedy, gives thought at an insane and sadistic brain, hungry of further catastrophes. The more plausible meaning, and you will understand it only watching the video, is to bright up your mind after the large reflection about the previous theme, and that we have art that can give us serenity, even the more simply art like freehand drawing like in the video. Video track is realized by Bioastract Crew, a collective costituite by Mark Hamn (Francesco Giannico), Christian Manno, Antonella Cotardo and Annalisa Macagnino. Annalisa contribuite also to the realization of artwork of album with her freehand drawing. Tracklist: 01. Joanna's song 02. Thinking about own liability 03. Academic Disumanity 04. An omelette century 05. If there's a way 06. Overheated century 07. Progress 08. Relativity of religions 09. When accused men become prosecutors 10. I'm Happy (video track)

( 9 EUR or 13 USD - shipping included )

produced by Muertepop Records [Muep001]

New disc is intitled "To the Naked Eye"

Limited edition for only 100 copies.

Stay tuned!

Reserve your copy contacting

mark_hamn@yahoo.it

Coming soon ! ! !

January 2008

Mark Hamn's New Release for january 2008

produced by Muertepop Records [Muep001]

New disc is intitled "To the Naked Eye"

Limited edition for only 100 copies.

Stay tuned!

Reserve your copy contacting

mark_hamn@yahoo.it

BLOW UP : Review about "Je dèchire l’ongle auc Criminels"  (Leggi il resto)

"Je déchire l'ongle aux criminels" : review on the italian webzine SANDS-ZINE( www.sands-zine  (Leggi il resto)

Review on the italian webzine AUDIODROME ( www.AUDIODROME.IT. )  (Leggi il resto)

An interview to Mark Hamn by an italian webzine AUDIODROME (www.audiodrome.it)  (Leggi il resto)

An old interview released for a french webzine TOKAFI , www.tokafi.com  (Leggi il resto)

mark hamn
next live dates :

26 lug at Fras(t)uoni 2007 indipendent music festival

 


27 lug at Streamfest 2007 new media festival

 

Out Now
Mark Hamn's New Release

Mark Hamn (Francesco Giannico)
"Je déchire l'ongle aux criminels" (Released by Afe Records Bar La Muerte)     2007 

Published as a friendly co-production between Afe and Bar La Muerte.

Strangely enough, both Bruno Dorella of Bar La Muerte and Andrea Marutti of Afe contributed guitar and treatments on "Les Justes" - the long opening track - at an earlier stage when the album was still supposed to be released by another label.

The title of this track, and all the others as well, is a reference to the work of Arthur Rimbaud, the famous and influential french poète maudit.

"À partir est d'ici la seule solution" is a track which includes many of the elements used by Mark Hamn on this release. It begins with a looped woodwind instrument paired with laptop-generated high frequencies; a timpani roll introduces simple but effective guitar melodies and arpeggios accompanied by field recordings of water and rusty gear. The woodwind loop and timpani return in the closing section as a recording of a restless crowd in the distance discloses a sort of discomfort.

"Le besoin de la réflexion" is the shortest track on "Je déchire l'ongle aux criminels", it features fluid piano patterns finding their way through cinematic pads and various layers of microsounds.

"Malaises douces" begins with what seems to be an highly distorted guitar drone teamed up with digitally manipulated rhytmic noises. Peaceful guitar loops slowly emerge as more and more treated field recordings populate the background.

"La charnière du temps" is a lovely droney number that showcases particularly evocative qualities. It's a perfect soundtrack to accompany an old Super-8 home movie and the fading colours of what once was youth. For sure it is one of the tracks contained on "Je déchire l'ongle aux criminels" that impressed us the most.

With "Le vent fait un tour en dehors à la notification de moi" we get back into glitcher territories. This track is constructed on all sort of sound scoriae and offers a closer look on the digital side of Mark's music, so to speak.

"Automatism de la dernière heure" is another ambient-oriented composition enriched by rhythmic miniatures, which is a nice ending to a beautiful album of skillfully created sober and heartfelt music.

to order your copy contact  afeman@aferecords.com

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 Mark Hamn's Previous Releases


2004  -- Released by Sinewaves   -
Croissants Fourre's Creme Chocolat by Francesco Giannico (Mark Hamn) is an evocative work, sometimes melanhonic. Sound atmospheres full of reverbs, echoes and digital or analogical dust, merge with concrete sounds of everyday life. It's a meditated and meditative work; in its ambiental textures sound extracts bring back to our reality and then ferry back to the abstract shores.

to order your copy contact me at mark_hamn@yahoo.it
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2005 - - Released by Sinewaves -
Prefixes Active and inspired mood for Francesco Giannico, aka Mark Hamn, who publishes the second release for this net label. Eight little works, of a deep and solid style, re-echo ''Croissants Fourres Creme Chocolat'' atmospheres dandle us with wadded and romathic sounds.

to order your copy contact me at mark_hamn@yahoo.it
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2006 -- Released by Dharmasound -
Function Buttons -The six-track album on Dharmasound is something like a cineastic journey which pushes the boundaries of the digital instrument by incorporating smooth melodies and gentle textures even further. mark's guitar and piano is constantly present within his interrupted structures, making this album more accessible, yet without any lack of textural innovations. a piece of music which is highly recommended to anyone interested in discovering his work as much as it is a must have for those already in tune with his macromusic.

to order your copy contact me at mark_hamn@yahoo.it

21 giu 2007 ore 21.00

Sincro '07

"Tra Immagini Parole e Arte Elettronica"

LUCI DI OMBRE E DI SUONI
Sonorizzazione di "NOSFERATU IL VAMPIRO"
                                                         (Copia del Goethe Institut di Roma )

a cura di Francesco Giannico/ Mark Hamn.

 info : 329/0715201

 

GIOVEDI 17 MAGGIO,

Galleria Comunale del Castello Aragonese

ore 20:30

ingresso gratuito

(Taranto)

Live set elettronici di 12deadpixels e Mark Hamn. A seguire le divagazioni free jazz di Valerio Cosi & Enzo Franchini, a cura dell'Associazione Culturale :alternativa.mente

per maggiori informazioni consultare il sito :

http://myspace.com/alternativamente

04 mag 2007  ; ore 20.00 - Fondo Verri - Lecce
via Santa Maria del Paradiso 8 73100 -----Costo:gratuito

Live set di Mark Hamn/Francesco Giannico da sottofondo alla presentazione
dell'ultimo libro di Rossano Astremo “        "L’ incanto delle macerie” più performance artistica di Annalisa Macagnino.

 info 3495012612 ; mark_hamn@yahoo.it

COMUNICATO STAMPA
Venerdì 4 maggio, ore 20
Fondo Verri - Lecce
Presentazione de “L’ incanto delle macerie” di Rossano Astremo

Un uomo. Una donna. I loro corpi rinchiusi in uno spazio domestico. Un amore totale, il loro. Uno schermo proietta immagini. Programmi di tutto il male che c’è. Flashback della realtà lasciata alle spalle. Potere, guerre, collassi. Due solitudini. Un’unione. Inseparabili, mediatizzati: vivono attendendo un mutamento che li travolga. Questa in sintesi la storia raccontata in versi in “L’incanto delle macerie”, seconda raccolta poetica di Rossano Astremo, edita da Icaro, pubblicata ad oltre tre anni di distanza da “Corpo poetico irrisolto”. Ha scritto Flavio Santi, nella prefazione al testo: “Nella centrifuga di stimoli e impulsi che questa poesia muove e genera, a fine lettura si ha l’impressione che essa consista, non slabbri o ecceda – il rischio di tanto barocco –, ma sia. Sia e dunque dica, senza concedersi aloni o zone d’ombra. Dica di un mondo dove trionfa lo spettacolo, lo scambio simbolico e la morte, dove la finzione viene survoltata e diventa realtà. Dica di una storia d’amore che, consentaneo specchio del mondo, è finzione nel momento in cui è reale, ed è reale nel momento in cui finge. Dica di un mondo dove guerra è sempre. Di un mondo visto come enorme e roboante discoteca dove techno e pop music scandiscono la forza degli stessi versi, sublimandoli e desublimandoli schizofrenicamente”. Il libro verrà presentato venerdì 4 maggio, alle ore 20, presso il Fondo Verri di Lecce. All’incontro prenderanno parte, oltre all’autore, Mauro Marino, responsabile della casa editrice Icaro e la scrittrice Elisabetta Liguori. Nel corso della serata è prevista una lettura del testo da parte dell’autore, accompagnata dalla proiezioni di immagini degli artisti Gianluca Costantini e Annalisa Macagnino e dai suoni elettronici di Francesco Giannico, meglio conosciuto con il nome di Mark Hamn.