Ossatura is an Italian improvisation group working with electronics and noisemakers featuring the brothers Elio and Maurizio Martusciello. For this recording, they are joined by former Henry Cow member
Tim Hodgkinson on flat guitar and wind instruments. Ossatura's music is characterized by sequences of sound blocks where detailed and quiet textural work alternate with rhythmic acceleration and dense sound blocks. On "Tempo... Usura," for example, the piece opens with quiet samples and accordion drones, succeeded by a driving rhythmic pattern punctuated by gong sounds. The patterns are occasionally taken up by other sound makers and other instruments, as on "Bioplast" where a similar pattern occurs first in a high buzzing register, and later amid dark rumblings. "Dentro" was recorded by Bob Drake, sound engineer for several ReR projects, and the album combines not only the improvisation but significant amounts of studio post-processing. ~ Caleb Deupree