In 1997 Mark Iacona
(drums, percussions, synth and sampling)
and Fausto Balbo (synth, sampling, self made musical instruments and
live electronics), started to play some free sessions moved by their
curiosity and will to experiment. The MARFAUS project started from
those sessions and the name came from an acronym formed by Mark and
Fausto: MARFAUS means, in some dialects, FALSE SEA. The starting
performances took place in the usual recording studio but soon the duo
start recording in inusual places: the deep of the woods, old
farmsteads and abandoned warehouses. There, instead of the usual
intruments, MARFAUS started to play with pretty much everything they
could land their hands on: branches, stones, working tools, bottles,
water tanks, pipes and such... The only electronic device used was a
DAT recorder able to catch and record the sound they made. After a
careful listening to the recordings, the duo decided to use some parts
in order to create a sort of AUDIO-MOVIE in which many people's stories
mix and cross each others: They wanted to describe everyday life,
feelings, the perversions in and out of the homes. MARFAUS took the
plot of this audio-movie from many narrations that already existed,
they searched and found many interesting dialogues from television
shows such as: FLORENCE MONSTER'S TRIAL, interviews made to hookers and
samples taken from movies like THE BIRDS (Hitchcock, 1963), THE GRANDE
BOUFFE (Ferreri, 1973) and also the porno-cult DEEP THROAT (Gerard,
1972). After, the duo made some order and sense in all those words and
samples, they started to cut, merge and manipulate the sounds with
every devices they had. The final result was a cd titled GENTE COMUNE,
self published in 2004 with John Pearce (ex Family Fodder) playing the
piano on tracks 1-6. This CD was packaged with craftmanship and every
copy had a case made of grey mat with the MF logo fire printed on.
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