INSIGHTS 024 // VALENTINA MAGALETTI - Conversations Through Music, Moin, Vanishing Twin, Holy Tongue & V/Z

In this episode of INSIGHTS, I have the utter pleasure of sitting down with one of the most extraordinary and well-respected percussionists and composers of our era. Valentina Magaletti's singular hypnotic rhythms are the driving force behind a staggering amount of musical projects, including Vanishing Twin, Moin, Holy Tongue, Tomaga and, most recently, V/Z and CZN. She has also worked with the likes of Lafawndah, upsammy, Mica Levi, Sampha, Kamasi Washington, and Nicolas Jaar, as well as stalwarts of the experimental underground scene like Gnod’s Marlene Ribeiro and  Wire’s Graham Lewis, even participating in The Can Project at London’s Barbican Centre in 2017.

Over the course of this interview, Valentina discusses using the drums as a vehicle for self-expression, the importance of channeling varied conversations via different musical projects, her musical influences ranging from Velvet Underground and Art Blakey to J Dilla and Sonia Pottinger, writing and performing with Vanishing Twin, Moin, Holy Tongue, V/Z, CZN and what the future has in store for each project. To finish, Valentina discuss her and her partner’s new label and micro-publisher Permanent Draft and their forthcoming book documenting over two thousand female, trans and non-binary artists in experimental music, pursuing a career as a full time musician and some current favourite Bandcamp picks!

Clips of 'Habadash' by V/Z featuring Cathy Lucas and 'Born To Snap' by CZN are used at the beginning and end of this podcast.

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