 Listen to samples at Musicline. Click here ...Speaking of nationality, there’s something Italian about this
whole solo album by Julian Spizz. The vocalist, who likes to go
by the alias Spizzman when he works as a composer or arranger,
sings in his native language throughout and, after all, Italian is the
language of song!
The technical possibilities have expanded enormously
in the meantime. New sampling methods allow not only self-dialog
but provide the soloist with the opportunity of becoming a regular
one-man vocal orchestra. And where formerly experiments of this
kind could only be realized in the recording studio (with the aid of
complex multitrack systems), they can now be performed live, i.e.
in “real time”! Julian Spizz makes ideal use of these possibilities.
For his solo album “Incipit” (a Latin word referring to the beginning,
the starting point of an undertaking) he recorded all of the
voices himself. In concert, he is also able to realize these complexly
interlocked vocal phrases, while giving the audience insight into
the evolution of his music: One after the other, he superimposes
layers of percussion, bass and various lines of melody, constructing
a complete vocal orchestra.
In the process, Julian Spizz is able to draw from the experience
he gained with “Trinovox,” though now far exceeding those former
boundaries. He booms out a velvety doo-wop bass as the foundation
for the groove, then supplies lashing surges of percussion that
sound as if he was using a syndrum set, though they are “merely”
his own voice. Melodic structures, now wild and ecstatic, now succumbing
to a sensual passion for sound – an element probably no
Italian would ever do without! – complete the acoustic picture.
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