Handcut

Bellows is the duo of Giuseppe Ielasi and Nicola Ratti and ‘Handcut’ is their second project. For ‘Handcut’, Bellows used a simple technique of cutting / destroying and amplifying vinyl records with contact microphones, creating new grooves and physical loops while capturing the sounds on a revox tape machine with long tapeloops. No further processing or transformations were applied apart for a couple of effect pedals and sine waves. A sort of atmospheric and modern electronic music recorded at the beginning of the twentieth century on 78rpm shellac records