NEA launches NEA Editions label with debut album ‘Orizzontale’
NEA releases “Orizzontale” (NEA001) on June 26, 2026, the first title on the new NEA Editions label, a ten-track residency recording from southern Italy.
NEA (Photo via band)
NEA, an experimental and electroacoustic collective based in Italy’s Murgia Materana Park, released “Orizzontale” on June 26, 2026. The album is the first title on NEA Editions (NEA001), the collective’s new label for experimental, electronic, and electroacoustic music. “Orizzontale” comes out as a digital download paired with a handcrafted olive wood stamp that embeds a reusable QR code for lossless audio and extra content.
“Orizzontale” documents an art residency and live session staged in the Murgia Materana Park. Twelve artists took part, working across free improvisation, heavy electronics, jazz, Mediterranean traditional music, dub, noise, and experimental theatre. The recording holds ten tracks, each named after a plant of the Mediterranean scrubland: “Ferula,” “Ruta,” “Lentisco,” “Camedrio,” “Clematide,” “Filirea,” “Issopo,” “Euforbia,” “Asfodelio,” and “Polipodio.”
The collective frames the album around horizontality, which it defines as the absence of hierarchies and authoritarian structures. The collective traces that principle through the residency, the encounter, and the performance that produced the recording. It carries into the format: the QR code stamped into the olive wood can be scanned more than once, which the collective ties to its view of sharing as “a political act.” NEA Editions lists “Orizzontale” as a free download for its community.
About NEA
The collective was formally constituted in 2025 as a cultural association in the Murgia Materana Park, in the Matera area of southern Italy. Its founders are Daniele Antezza, a music producer and sound engineer; Federico Nitti, a visual and sound artist; Andrea Taeggi, a musician and sound artist; and Pietro De Ruggieri, a producer and sound artist. The collective describes itself as a horizontal structure that grows through encounters, residencies, and shared practice.
Antezza records as part of Dadub, the dub-techno and experimental project whose 2013 album “You Are Eternity” appeared on Stroboscopic Artefacts. Side-Line previously reported on Dadub’s “How To Shoulder the Radiance of Revelations”, issued through Opal Tapes. Taeggi, who is based in Berlin, is a founding member of the electroacoustic duo Lumisokea and also records as Gondwana.
The collective’s longer-term plan centers on converting an ancient Masseria, its headquarters, into a residency centre for experimental and avant-garde artists, with a focus on sound art and electroacoustic music. “Orizzontale” is the first record to emerge from that project and the opening release on NEA Editions.
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