Amon – El Khela (1997)

Country: Italy

Tracklist

1. Rise Of Thermutis 08:02
2. Khore 10:27
3. Dark Side Return 08:51
4. El Khela 11:19
5. She Touched The Stone 04:10
6. Wasted 08:56
7. Ank Sen Amon 18:46

Andrea Marutti was born in 1970 in Savona and currently lives in Milan, Italy.

He began his experiments with music in the early ’90s using mainly tapes and objects.

A few years later he also started to use synthesizers, samplers and other electronic devices

 and founded the Lips Vago Digital Studio.

His most well-known projects are Amon and Never Known.

During the late ’90s/early ’00s several of his releases in the field of Ambient/Dark Ambient music

were published by labels such as Eibon Records, Nextera, Amplexus, Silentes, Drone Records, Taâlem, etc.

For some time he was also responsible of other projects dealing with different styles of electronic music

ranging from Lo-Fi/Weird/Cheap Electronica to IDM (Wolkspurz & Ramirez, Lips Vago) and Dada/Noise/Nonsense (Spiral).

With the turn of the century he started recording and releasing Experimental/Ambient tracks under his own name,

in duo with Giuseppe Verticchio/Nimh as Hall Of Mirrors,

with Davide Del Col (Ornament, Echran) as Molnija Aura and again in duo with Andrea “Ics” Ferraris as Sil Muir.

Later on he was also involved in two collective projects: Maribor

with Giuseppe Verticchio, Maurizio Bianchi, Stefano Gentile, Pierpaolo Zoppo and Gianluca Favaron,

and Meerkat with Andrea Ferraris, Davide Valecchi/aal, Fabio Selvafiorita, Luca Bergero/Fhievel,

Logoplasm, Luca Sigurtà, Matteo Uggeri/Hue and Adriano Zanni/Punck.

Between 1995 and 2013 he also ran a small label called Afe.

Among the musicians that he hosted were Maurizio Bianchi, Bad Sector, Maeror Tri, Telepherique, De Fabriek,

Aidan Baker, Ovum, Steve Brand, Logoplasm, Ellende, Bestia Centauri, True Colour Of Blood and many more.

After a few years of hiatus, in late 2017 he re-builted his studio in a new location and began to work on new projects.

In 2016 Eibon Records with Silentes Minimal Editions re-released a remastered digisleeve edition of "El Khela",

under the title "El Khela Al'Akhdar", featuring a graphically renewed version

and a second CD with rare, unreleased and reworked tracks.

23 years after its initial release, "El Khela" still shines out like a pillar in the dark ambient field.

Mysterious, trascending, catacombal, bleak, cryptic ambience, the sound of forgotten realms in its purest form.

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