Italian producer Francesco Farfa has announced that his seminal Audio Esperanto label is to release music again 10 years after it was originally conceived. The label only put out four EPs in two years, but it got great support from media worldwide (who started to talk about the “Phenomenon Farfa”), and from the likes of Danny Tenaglia and John Digweed. But after those two years on top, the label folded as Francesco moved to Barcelona, and started to collaborate with Serial Killer Vinyl. Francesco started up the label to fight the barriers of restrictive musical categorisation, something he felt was stifling people’s artistic endeavours. So Audio Esperanto set out to remind people that music is a universal language which needs no categories, no barriers, no impositions, no limits. With genres breaking down more and more just now, it seems like this label could make a real impact.
First up is Francesco’s own release Founding Magdalen, inspired by a sample taken from a very old track (titled Magdalen) by Anthony Phillips. Then comes Travel High by Anime Volanti. Francesco says: “Many times the mind wanders throughout mysterious and humanly unknown dimensions projecting thoughts of surreal images that then become artistic inspiration. This is often how music comes alive, and Anime Volanti expresses this concept.”
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