Luciano Cilio : Dialoghi del Presente

Luciano Cilio was born in Naples, Italy, in 1950. A guitarist and self-taught composer, Cilio released only one LP before his untimely death at the age of 33. Dialoghi del Presente (1977) is a work like no other, one that sounds both ancient and ahead of its time. Produced by Renato Marengo, it features a series of muted tableaux for strings, woodwinds, guitar, chorus, piano and percussion. Cilio carves out a space where subtle, repetitive phrases yield – almost imperceptibly – to breathtaking silence.