V/A - Greetings From S.G.V LP Folk Rock Virginia’s best kept secret THE

Virginia’s best kept secret THE CATALYST offer up their first full length album

and its experimental paths beyond convention into realms of pure sonification

Things kick off with “Thermoplastic Riot Shield” a single-object study built entirely out of the sound of a police riot shield being stroked

while the rest of the album was created with Felix on drums

it’s a bravura performance that is matched

V/A - Greetings From S.G.V LP Folk Rock Virginia’s best kept secret THEOverdue reissue of the first three 12" in the record series dedicated to musicians who took part to the Greetings festival. It happened in 1987, it was time for Materiali Sonori's 10th anniversary, an historic goal for the label collective born in the small Tuscany village of San Giovanni Valdarno. The small celebration brought to life a box collecting the first 3 EPs of the 'Greetings From S. G. V.' series. The series was intended as symbolic sound