In one of the last projects he conceived, interrupted by his premature death in 2002, Davide Mosconi chose to absolutize as concrete" sonic data the complete cycle of Wagners Ring. Mosconi, an artist equally divided between the sonic universe and the visual sphere, perhaps could not resist the temptation of picking up the torch -- to intentionally fan the flame -- of he who made the Gesamtkunstwerk one of the theoretical groundings of his futuristic ideology and therefore inspired a never-more-to-be-soothed utopia in the phenomenology of contemporary arts. It is not surprising that even John Cage in one of his rare but precisely aimed iconoclastic incursions intended to refer to the Wagnerian tetralogy to ensure the translocation of this speculative object to a metalinguistic mimesis: in 1987, with the complicity of the director Frank Scheffer, he reduced Wagners Ring to a short film in which The Ring of the Nibelungs prologue and three days breeze by in a single sequence accelerated to a spasm, finally approaching the approximate duration -- a detail not irrelevant -- of his celebrated silent piece (4:24 vs. 433"). MOSCONI WAGNER shares, by analogy, a similar metamusical inclination, but, opposed to Cages openly negative paradigm -- which nullifies the context by nullifying the text -- accepts a confrontation with the hypertrophic Ring concept, which it subsumes in its entirety. Mosconi, by a rigorous procedure of montage following a logic of stratification, is perhaps trying to obtain a paroxysm of unheard-of violence in the musical material, nourishing itself on Wagners music -- which is still structurally perceived as such -- almost like an organic lymph. He pushes to an extreme limit all the aesthetic and ideological pulsations that come together in Wagners concept of music drama and react like a muddle of inextricable opposing forces. Digipak CD limited to 300 copies; includes full-color booklet containing photos by Mosconi from the "Polvere" series as well as liner notes by Gabriele Bonomo, who supervised the final mix of MOSCONI WAGNER using the recorded material prepared by the composer and following his prescriptions." - Alga Marghen.
After nearly a decade of false starts, multiple game plans veering off the rails, and a handful of shattered hopes and/or dreams, the odyssey is finally complete—the new Fusetron site is here.
This is the first phase of a multipart rollout that will span the next few months: the currently browsable stock includes miscellaneous new releases from the past 8+ months (we have a lot of catching up to do), plus approximately a third of our backstock. Note that we’ve reduced/slashed prices on many titles and will continue to do so in order to make room for new stock. We’ll also be expanding / tweaking / improving / debugging the site itself (for example, we still have work to do on the automated international postage system, not to mention the inevitable inventory discrepancies that come with transferring an ancient and massive database to a new system).
Over the next few months, as we take inventory, clean house, and delve into our storage, we will be uploading thousands of additional items, gradually, on a near-daily basis. This will include the majority of the LPs, as well as many titles, in all formats, once thought long-gone. Many currently “sold out” items are likely to resurface.
Finally, once our general backstock is up (probably in the next two or three months) we’ll begin making our extensive stockpile of rarities available online for the first time: tons of random out-of-print titles, "deadstock," warehouse finds, secondhand collectibles, etc., accumulated over the past few decades.
Frequent/returning customers will be getting early access to these items. Details to follow on how this will work (a priority mailing list? a 'frequent flyer'-like program?), but it will not be based on dollars spent. We want to reward those who consistently support us, especially in the discogs marketplace era (to those who show up trying to poach five copies of a one-off rarity, and nothing else, ever… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ).
So—we suggest you take some time to dig through the site—even we’ve been surprised by what’s been turning up, and there’s much more to come.
