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Lemures is the duo of Enrico Coniglio and Giovanni Lami, both members of the collective AIPS (Archivo Italiano Paesaggi Sonori, or the Italian Archive of Soundscapes) and contributors to the Postcards from Italy project. They take their name from the same Roman spirits of the dead after whom Carl Linnaeus named a species grouping of […]

Lemuria ( Crönlca 083-2013, LP) ist wohl meine erste Bekanntshaft mit dem Venezianer Enrico Coniglio, einem in Projekten wie Aqua Dorsa und Herion oder auch als My Horne, Sinking aktiven Topophoniker, dessen Sophistlcatlon Wörter wie Koumponophobia (Angst vor Knöpfen) einschließt, auch wenn er sich damit nur als Leser von Neil Gaimans Coraline outet. An seiner […]

Not to be confused with those lovely primates living in the island of Madagascar – Lemurs in Po Valley could be an oddity for zoologists indeed -, even if the name of this album could be puzzling as Lemuria is also the name of the hypothetical “lost land” where lemurs came from and the first […]

Lemures make industrial field recordings. Far from these evoking some sort of pretty pastoral scene they are harsh unrelenting explorations into the dark underbelly of machines. Thanks to the intensity of the vision there is hardly any relief from these foreboding soundscapes. Aspects of it do focus on the natural when necessary but even these […]

“Nelle credenze religiose di Roma antica, anima o spettro vagante di defunto che tornava sulla terra per molestare i vivi”. Così dice il mio Zingarelli del lemure, mentre apprendo da Wikipedia che le “Lemuria” siano delle cerimonie dell’Antica Roma attraverso la quale esorcizzare i morti. Dietro a questo progetto troviamo Enrico Coniglio, ormai sound artist […]