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The Telephone

by Matteo Uggeri

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Limited to 85 copies - includes:

    - the "The Telephone" CD with unique real old (from the '50s) Italian b/w postcard on the cover (a different one on each copy) wrapped into a tracing paper envelope with a sticker;
    - the 24x36 poster with photos and description of the whole project.

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Telephone via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 3 days
    edition of 85 

      €14 EUR or more 

     

  • Cassette + Digital Album

    Limited to 30 copies - includes:

    - the red cassette into a jewel silverish carboard package with a sticker, wrapped into a bread-paper bag;
    - the 24x36 poster with photos and description of the whole project.

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Telephone via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 3 days
    edition of 30 

      €12 EUR or more 

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      €7 EUR  or more

     

  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 34 Matteo Uggeri releases available on Bandcamp and save 85%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Ottomani, Ten Rooms under the Sea, My Happiest Consumption, Live in Vienna 9th of June 2023, All the Way Down, From Solstice to Equinox, Tales from an Underground River, The Soundtrack of Your Secrets, and 26 more. , and , .

    Purchasable with gift card

      €32.69 EUR or more (85% OFF)

     

  • Buy Stuff

  • Extremely Limited Numbered Dial Box Edition
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Limited to 15 copies - includes:

    - the regular "The Telephone" CD with unique real old (from the '50s) Italian b/w postcard on the cover (a different one on each copy) wrapped into a tracing paper envelope with a sticker;
    - the 24x36 poster with photos and description of the whole project;
    - the "Dial Edition" extra CD with other unreleased songs by Jack Cannon, Der Einzige, Olivia, Camillas and others... packed into a handmade drawing artwork (front) with a real old telephone plug (back);
    - a working real old (from the 70s or the 80s) hacked telephone handset with a 3.5mm audio jack to be plugged to any device (smartphone, stereo hi-fi, walkman...);
    - 24x24 additional poster with the instructions to use the handset and artwork by Matteo Uggeri;
    - real (randomly selected, different per each box) old telephones pieces, such as the ones here in the photos.

    EACH BOX IS NUMBERED AND SIGNED

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Telephone via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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This is by far the weirdest release by Matteo Uggeri in his whole career, that started in 1993 and developed along many collaborations along the years and culminated, so far, in 2022, with the Starlight Assembly project involving the 4AD historical singer Dominic Appleton (This Mortal Coil and Breathless).

For this bizarre album, which design, recording and releasing took over 8 years, he's also surrounded by a good bunch of fellow musicians. Each of them has been invited to sing a song, a cover, at the phone with Matteo. The tracks are direct takes through the delicate, old microphones present in the (70's) telephone handsets.

Integrated with bits of conversations, crackles, background noises, hisses and breaths, they result in an album which is an unique flow of whispered vocals on sparse instrumental arrangements.

The album is released in three formats, from an extremely limited to 15 copies "Dial Box Edition", that includes a real old hacked (but working) phone handset with a true 3.5mm audio jack to a limited CD with 85 different black and white postcards covers included, to 30 cassettes.

credits

released May 1, 2022

Conceived, recorded, assembled, mixed and illustrated by Matteo Uggeri.
Telephone handset hacking by My Dear Killer.

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Matteo Uggeri Milano, Italy

Matteo Uggeri is an Italian visual designer and composer from Milan.

He invests himself in sound poetry of everyday life, organized around a vast array of personal field recordings and melodic compositions meticulously arranged in a story-telling way.

He's part of the duo Starlight Assembly along with Dominic Appleton and he plays in Sparkle in Grey, Open to the Sea and The Last Five Minutes.
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