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1 | The Unity of the Mind | 3:08 |
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2 | A Queer Anthology of the Drums | 3:18 |
| 3 | Words i First Saw | 2:50 | |
| 4 | Rumours of Bread | 1:19 | |
| 5 | Body in a Room | 5:15 | |
| 6 | Per Strada | 2:10 | |
| 7 | The Other Side of Everything | 3:10 | |
| 8 | Tutti Alcirco! | 2:11 |
Switch that light off.
Switch that light off.
Still the night appears in her relentless bright stupor.
A collection of unsung sleepless nights. A percussive collage of low-fi frequencies documenting a journey that never took place.
Il silenzio non arriva
Il conto è salato
Il sole riscalda i fallimenti
Niente ma tutto è cambiato
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Valentina Magaletti played and assembled percussion, drums, field recordings, vibraphone, toys, and oscillators.
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Produced and edited by Leon Marks. Special thanks to: Tom Relleen, Marta Salogni, Evelena Ruether, and João Pais Felipe for the love and support. Cover design by Oliver Barrett.
Valentina Magaletti, drummer-composer and multi-instrumentalist, returns to the stage for A Colourful Storm, following La Tempesta Colorata (2023), a compilation appearance on Soon I'll Run Out of Air (2024) and a multitude of solo and collaborative releases.
Magaletti's versatile technique, which can incorporate anything from vibes and marimba to contact microphones and found objects, results in a style that is forever evolving. Feeling just as comfortable performing behind a delicate ceramic kit as she does hammering out motorik rhythms, her creative take on percussion has resulted in an extremely diverse discography.
As a drummer, Magaletti moves effortlessly between the seemingly disparate worlds of alternative and mainstream music. She has played with artists such as Jandek, Pat Thomas, Deb Googe, Malcolm Mooney, Thurston Moore, Steve Beresford, Steve Shelley, Lafawndah, Mica Levi, Sampha, Kamasi Washington, and Nicolas Jaar to name a few. In addition to collaborating with the gamelan Ensemble Nist-Nah and drummers Malcom Catto, Julian Sartorius and Charles Hayward, she has played with stalwarts of the experimental underground scene like Gnod’s Marlene Ribeiro, Wire’s Graham Lewis, and Thighpaulsandra (Coil). In 2017, Valentina participated in The Can Project, standing in for the late Jaki Liebezeit, at London’s Barbican Centre.
Magaletti’s compositional credits are just as elaborate: with Tom Relleen, she was one half of Tomaga; with Al Wootton, she creates irresistible claustrophobic dub as Holy Tongue; with Pino Montecalvo, under the Avvitagalli alias, Valentina improvises intricate sonic collages; alongside percussionist João Pais Filipe, as CZN, she constructs hallucinatory rhythmic worlds, which are as fragile as they are eternal; with Joe Andrews and Tom Halstead, she plays as Moin.
