Style: Ambient
Country: Italy
Label: Hic Sunt Leones
Format: MP3@CBR, 320 kbps
Size: 184 mb
About Release:
Yet another fine duet initiated by oneof the most prolific and adventurous composers of ambient music. On 25 January2003, Alio Die (Stefano Musso) and Festina Lente (which apporpirately means"hurry slowly" in Latin and is in fact one Michele Brieda) spent a single session improvising, with the latter playing pianos and the former zitheras well as adding sundry electronic effects and field recordings. Atthirty-five minutes and executed with such effortless grandeur, the opening track "Nei meandri piu remoti del sogno di Scarabeo" could just as well have been released on its own. Happily, it was not, as what comes after perfectly complements and reexamines what came before. (What´s more, Alio Dieis always generous with releases on his Hic Sunt Leones label, offering very long playing times - in fact this record is just a few seconds short of the maximum running time for a conventional CD.) Said track is highly cinematic in nature, a small masterpiece of taste and restraint. I myself picture Brieda seated at the pianoforte near an open window, dabbling distractedly, interested more inexploring acoustic timbres than creating music per se, as the hustle and bustleof the urban world hustles and bustles its way by - literally the world, as this album features field recordings from Malaysia, Hong Kong, Katmandu, California and beyond. This luscious track calls to mind a chamber version of Tetsu Inoue´s classic crossing of ambient electronica and urban field recordings, "World Receiver". Two or three of the remaining tracks engage in suggestive experiments in how to nudge ambient into the realm of a kind of amorphous improv, while the five-minute long fifth track and lovely twelve-minute closing track seem to reprise the first track both in mood and execution, thus bringing the listener full circle.Along time since two musicians collaborating for the first time complemented one another so well.Stephen Fruitman / Sonomu.net
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