Dialoghi Del Presente (VINYL) |

    Dialoghi Del Presente
    Artist: Luciano Cilio Format: LP Release Date: 3/6/2026 

    Label: Superior Viaduct
    Distributor: AMPED
    UPC: 857661008506
    Genre: Rock
    Release Date: 3/6/2026
    Product ID: SPRV203.1

    Weight: .5 lb

Description

Luciano Cilio was born in Naples, Italy, in 1950. He studied music and architecture and, in the late '60s, collaborated with local artist Alan Sorrenti, American expat Shawn Phillips and various avant-garde theater groups. A virtuoso guitarist and self-taught composer, Cilio released only one LP before his untimely death at the age of 33.
Dialoghi Del Presente (1977) is a work like no other, one that sounds both ancient and ahead of it's time. Produced by Renato Marengo, it features a series of muted tableaux for strings, woodwinds, guitar, chorus, piano and percussion. Cilio carves out a space where subtle, repetitive phrases yield-almost imperceptibly-to breathtaking silence. As Jim O'Rourke writes, "These recordings sound as if they were to please no one but himself; they feel self-contained, introspective, and determined... You can feel in the music a sort of necessity that can be rarely found, like in This Heat's debut or Nick Drake's Pink Moon." While each subsequent "quadro" grows slightly more abstract, Cilio draws the listener into an expansive, pastoral soundscape. The closing piece, "Interludio," begins with a plaintive guitar, which is joined by haunting strings and woodwinds before concluding, poignantly, as the album began, with Cilio and his guitar, alone once more. Superior Viaduct's edition reproduces the original sleeve design. Recommended for fans of Johann Johannsson, Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden, Arvo Part and Popol Vuh.

    Tracks
    Credits

    1 Primo Quadro - Della Conoscenza
    2 Secondo Quadro
    3 Terzo Quadro
    4 Quarto Quadro - Dell'universo Assente
    5 Interludio

• Availability : PRE ORDER
• Genre: EXPERIMENTAL
• Format Type: LP
• Released: 03/06/2026