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Simone Santi Gubini's The Black Exposition, released by Neos, brings together three works, magnificently performed by the Ensemble Musikfabrik, that offer a fine insight into his musical language, so radical and personal. A music that starts with raw sound and pushes the instrumental writing to the extreme (but always determined writing, never entrusted to improvisation), (...) capable of creating an immediate, physical, even disturbing impact on the listener, opening up unexpected acoustic spaces.

The magazine Il giornale della musica publishes an article about the closing of the legendary Hans-Rosbaud-Studio and its last CD Production, The Black Exposition by the Italian composer Simone Santi Gubini.
"(...)Gubini creates new relationships to arrive at his personal concept of macropoliphony, bringing forth “sonic massiveness through distinct and detectable lines."

>>In purely virtuoso terms, one of the Musikfabrik's best albums. And that's saying something.<<
Thank you for the review of The Black Exposition by Simone Santi Gubini by Ismael G. Cabral in the Atelier de Discos a series of reviews of essential CDs in the spanish music magazine El Compositor Habla! So exiting to be the very first in the first #1 edition of this new important series!

In the Amadeus Magazine from October 2024, Ruben Marzà writes a review of Simone Santi Gubini's CD „The Black Exposition“. It is a collaboration with the Ensemble Musikfabrik and conductor Gregor A. Mayrhofer. „Gubini's music is a radical physical experience, material and intellectual shock. [...] performers and listeners are confronted with a maximum contrast that invests all the parameters of sound [...].“, Marzà said.

It is about the extreme density of the music. Ensemble musicians play in extreme techniques and registers at a high dynamic level. Electronics amplify the impact of the information. Ultimately, the aim is to awaken a new sensitivity for the physicality and facets of music. "The Black Exposition", by Italian composer Simone Santi Gubini, takes you on a journey into completely unique listening spaces and challenges for the ears.

Die klangliche Dichte, die Santi Gubini hier erzeugt, hat etwas von undurchschaubarer Unendlichkeit.
[The tonal density Santi Gubini creates here has something of an inscrutable infinity
about it.]
Review in the hörBar of the Neue Musikzeitung by Dr. Martin Hufner is about Simone Santi Gubini’s album The Black Exposition. An invitation for conversations on musical perspectives.

Simone Santi Gubini’s interview about his album The Black Exposition [ital. Le
esposizioni oscure] with the journalist Ettore Garzia is published now in the online
magazine Percorsi Musicali.
In this captivating interview, the composer details his very personal approach of writing
music, whether he had musical role models and how painting supports finding solutions
for compositional issues.