7 Nov 2022 :: Industrial Blues by Osvaldo Schwartz :: Release Day for Rizosfera/NUKFM (cat. no. NUKFM017)

7 Nov 2022 :: Industrial Blues by Osvaldo Schwartz :: Release Day for Rizosfera/NUKFM (cat. no. NUKFM017)

Today! 7 Nov. 2022 :: Industrial Blues by Osvaldo Schwartz :: Release day for Rizosfera/NUKFM (cat. NUKFM017)

Industrial Blues by Osvaldo Schwartz

Industrial Blues ::
Two years of preparation, between Bergamo, Reggio Emilia, Turin, London and Amsterdam. Nearly two hours of sound and images of great depth. The span of work examined in Osvaldo Schwartz’s work is over ten years (2010-2022). A monumental work, of a radical extraneousness to the permanent state of crisis of our civilisation, a different look at a deeper present… In short, Industrial Blues is the imaginary fusion of two antithetical ways of being and two antithetical sound worlds, the blues and ‘industrial’ audiovisual culture, with an unexpected master of ceremonies: Ennio Morricone. This monumental work speaks not only to Italy, but to Europe and the entire West. Now it is time for Industrial Blues.

The INDUSTRIAL BLUES work is very rich in content and equally generous in sound and images and is characterised as a format by:

1) 16-page colour booklet printed on high-quality 290 gram Twill paper with attached ‘biographies’ sheet also printed on Twill paper
2) 16 GB USB Card with audio and movies in high definition
3) the USB Card is screen-printed in full colour and attached on 250 gram Bristol board on which the ‘credits’ of the work are printed
4) Streaming of the entire work on the RizoStream digital platform with a private code dedicated to those who purchase INDUSTRIAL BLUES

CLICK HERE TO ORDER Industrial Blues at Rizoshop

Osvaldo Schwartz Biography

After spending the 1970s as a rock bassist, hippie percussionist and punk guitarist, Osvaldo Schwartzlanded in the 1980s as a new wave multi-instrumentalist musician. In 1983 he founded Officine Schwartz, a band focused on multimedia research and experimentation about the aesthetics and history of industrial civilization. He gave particular importance to the research on noise, using self-built instruments made from scrap materials, dance, 8mm projections, videos, industrial sounds derived from mechanical machines, Futurist graphics. With Officine Schwartz he produced compositions able to create contrasts between sounds and emotions. He was the director, the composer, the author, the multi-instrumentalist and the luthier. Officine Schwartz never wanted to follow a specific musical genre as they thought it was necessary to constantly evolve in order to extend the research. Thus Osvaldo Schwartz attended choral singing courses, learned to play the trumpet and studied the orchestral form to found the marching band known as Banda D’asfalto. In the early 90’s with twenty players of reed horns, brass instruments, accordion, bagpipes, drums and a choir, he created shows and renewed the band Officine Semoventi. He delved into popular musical culture, both local and from Eastern and Northern Europe, invented the instrument called Tubicordoand together with the band he began an ethno-industrial research. At the end of the century the band was reduced but still it retained the same characteristics: Tubicordo, metals, electronics and noise. In 2015 Officine Schwartz celebrated their 30th anniversary with an event entitled From Here to Rust, a documentary, and a massive rhythmic performance. The last trio concert was performed in August 2019. In addition to the commitment with Officine Schwartz, Osvaldo also performed as a musician in The Pirate Ship busker company and in Teatro Sezione Aurea with the choreographer Eugenio De Mello and produced soundtracks for Davide Ferrario’s films. In 2018 he started the project Convertible Blues with the guitarist Marco Valietti and the ever-present stainless Tubicordo. In 2022, his first multi-media work under his own name, Industrial Blues (Rizosfera-NUKFM editions), was released, crowning a fruitful decade of new compositions and avant-garde audiovisual experimentation.

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