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Margento @ Gold Disc Ceremony

Written by Revista EgoPHobia

Soft Records and MARGENTO have the honor to invite you to
The 2008 Gold Disc Ceremony
dedicated to the Award winning multimedia CD Margento II from Soft Records.
17 December 2008, 7 PM
At “Studioul de Inregistrari”, 150, Strada Traian, Bucharest

The award ceremony will also include video projections and an informal press conference followed by cocktails.

MARGENTO was started in 2001 by poet Chris Tanasescu as a syncretistic project that united music, poetry and painting in one single crucible. The project won the Fringiest Event Award at Buxton Fringe Festival 2005 – the most important fringe in England – and was the only Eastern European project that participated in Adelaide Fringe 2006 – the second largest fringe in the world – where they received a 4-Star (out of 5) Mention from the Press.

Spoken word and action painting conjunct with music involving keyboards mixes of trip-hop, progressive and psychedelic rock spiced up with Eastern European motifs and acid jazz; operatic vocals that plunge every now and then into rock-like crescendos and intriguing jazzy slurs; sound effects and engineering ranging from backing programmed musical scores to overlapping computerized rhythms and theremin explorations; plus off and on added rhythmical and solo guitars.

They released their first multimedia CD – including videos and painting & photo galleries – in June 2005 and launched a second multi-media LP in December 2007, which won the 2008 Gold CD.

Margento II presents besides its audio tracks an extensive action painting opera – Hora Asymptotica – based on the six-month progress of a one-square-meter painting worked into an animation that follows the rhythms and inflections of the musical score and poetry recital.

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