About this episode
Valentina Magaletti explores her musical archive in a rare solo outing, blending various genres and reflecting on her inner state.
The singular percussionist turns inward for a rare solo excursion. Valentina Magaletti at the drums is a picture of freedom: laughing, loose-limbed, entirely absorbed. For RA.1029, the London-based percussionist channels that instinct into a rare solo outing—a personal excursion through her musical archive. The atmosphere moves as freely as she plays, shifting from ominous and claustrophobic passages to contemplative field recordings. Collaboration is one of the central ways she continually reinvents herself, whether it be spiritual dub excursions with Shackleton and Holy Tongue, or post-punk melancholia with Moin. As she told The Guardian in 2024, "dialogue is more interesting than monologue." Take her work with Princípe associate Nídia, in which she used Angolan kuduro as a springboard for new acoustic visions of dance music. But Magaletti is also a solo artist in her own right, and RA.1029 is the sound of her own monologue. The 90-minute mix sees her roving through her personal archive, from wild drum excursions and Midwestern industrial to frenetic free jazz, eerie gqom and Ukrainian electro. It captures, she says, her current inner state, a feeling of being "suspended…
People in this episode
Host: Resident Advisor
Guest: Valentina Magaletti
Topics covered
- percussion
- solo performance
- musical archive
- collaboration
- introspection
- dance music
- free jazz
Keywords
- Valentina Magaletti
- percussionist
- solo outing
- musical archive
- free jazz
- dance music
- introspection
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Shackleton, Holy Tongue, Moin, Princípe
Places: Angola, London
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