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• Maas - enhanced flexi disc single

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  Pulver und Asche Records has established itself – over the years – as a label that devotes great attention to the physical realisation (objective but also conceptual) of its productions. For the single Maas, designer Alfio Mazzei decided to invert one of the fundamental assumptions of music publishing: the content is in fact not in the container but it is the container, inside which there is only a suggestion of the idea of a disc.
  Maas is in fact printed on a transparent flexi disc that – with plastic welding – becomes packaging, while the cardboard disc placed inside has grooves that do not produce music. On the contrary: the cardboard disc – when in its container – obstructs the hole that allows the flexi disc to be fixed to the turntable platter. In order to listen to the music, the cardboard disc must therefore be removed and the container placed directly on the turntable.
  The theme evoked by Mazzei's graphic design is that of material – but also symbolic – forms with which cultural products manifest themselves. And, by extension, the reflection embraces the very idea of culture: its nature, its evolution, the relationships we entertain with it. The physical musical support is no longer essential; the disappearance of the object has also changed the relationship between human beings and the art of sound, modifying (or shifting elsewhere) those elements of necessity, urgency and possession that had been its characteristic for many decades.
  Maas's production underlines these dynamics not in order to assert an ideological position of resistance, nor even to suggest nostalgic regret. Rather, it is meant to be a gesture of lucid awareness by someone who – looking to the future, despite everything – chooses to continue to produce and print music as a value of culture, from humans and for humans.
  
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