Home / About Artist Link Contact Shop   Mai Mai Mai Bio | Discography | Gallery |   MAI MAI MAI - ϕ / PHI Year: 2016 Record label: Boring Machines / Not Not Fun Φ (Phi) is the third and final installment in his Mediterranean trilogy, pushing the project deeper into a vivid interzone of digital synthesis and scorched ritual. The album opens with a searing collaboration with avant-folk instrumentalist Luca Venitucci, locked into a lofty duel of distorted drones, before pivoting to a throbbing oblivion of jackhammer bass, seething feedback, and combat samples. Later passages ooze through industrial spoken word, technoid voodoo hallucination, seasick prayer loops, and nightmare exotica,  assisted in places by Italian experimental percussion legend Lino Capra Vaccina (of 1970’s “golden age” groups Aktuala and Telaio  Magnetico). Featuring: Luca Venitucci (A1, Accordion) Lino Capra Vaccina (B3: Vibraphone, Gong, Percussions) Recorded, mixed and mastered by V.Fisik at Hombrelobo Studio Pictures by Ilaria Doimo Artwork by Legno The album is released on tape by Not Not Fun (cat. no. NNF332) MAI MAI MAI - THETA Year: 2013 Record label: Boring Machines Mai Mai Mai is the materialization of a travel in time and space. Born on a little island of the Aegean Sea around 30 years ago, Mai Mai Mai since childhood followed his parents around Europe and the Near East, assimilating the different cultures, atmospheres and sonorities of the places he was involuntarily taken to. Short periods of time which were intense enough to leave indelible traces. This project is the transposition of thoseexperiences into music and sounds: a mix of drone and ambient, steamy and phat beats, field recordings and soundscapes which lead to ancient and arcane ages, on the border between east and west. In this space/time travel Mai Mai Mai seeks for a story, an identity, a face. Theta is the first album from Mai Mai Mai, the tracks have been recorded in Rome and them mixed in L.A. by Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu). Nasty beats and sharp sounds emerges from a cloudy background of noises and field recordings, over which Mai Mai Mai applies some recorded ancient greek chants or slowly recites his sermons.