Der italienische Cellist, Komponist und Klangkünstler bringt dieser Tage sein zweites Album auf dem Berliner Label PAN heraus. “Blutt”, das von einer Erkundung der seit dem Byzantinsichen Reich existierende apulische Stadt Gallipoli inspiriert ist, verknüpft Einflüsse von Jazz, klassischer und traditioneller Musik und verknüpft Cello, Violine, Klavier, diverse Elektronik und einiges mehr zu einem wechselhaften und oftmals entrückten Klangbild. Eine Auswahl an Gästen wie Jazmin Romero, Kai Kight, Riley Watts und das Art work von Giovanni Forlino runden das Album ab, das als LP und digital erhältlich ist.

“Conceived at the heel of Italy’s boot-shaped peninsula in Apulia, Patrick Belaga’s Blutt makes music for the unruly imagination. The title is an old German word for ‘naked’, ‘bare’, but it can also mean ‘blood’ when spelt blut. Take away another letter and it makes ‘butt’. None of these definitions and adaptations were what prompted the classically-trained composer and cellist to name his second album with a word simulating the sound of a punctured artery. That came later. Blutt’s nine woozy compositions are inspired by a contemplative road trip with a friend, and the mysterious muffled music heard from an unidentified source. It was a combination of jazz and classical music that haunted Belaga’s wanderings through the Byzantine town Gallipoli, and soon infected his dreams of long-gone civilizations. This record is its outcome, where organic instrumentals and electronic production merge into a sound that’s both contemporary and ancient.” (PAN)