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4/19/2020

Alessio Ballerini – To Its Beginning To Its End (2013)




  • Ambient
  • Electronic music
  • Drone
  • Organic electronica
  • Ambient drone
  • Chamber music
  • Musique concrète
  • Field recording
  • Microtonal
  • Abstract
  • Post-classical

Comment: Alessio Ballerini (born 1980) is being an intriguing ambient/drone musician having been active since the end of the 00s. My first meet with the Italian's music was listening to Blanc (2010, Zymogen) where he collaborated with famous Austrian guitar alchemist Christian Fennesz on a track. Given that To Its Beginning To Its End is the very topic of ambient and drone music/or tightly mixed up with each other then the exploration must have been obsessive either in sequencing the templates or manipulating with microscopic elements. Any element represented within this whole of 4 tracks signifies something by adding weight either alone or changing its place within a configuration. At times the course gets an abstract turn due to having the static and faint abrasive hisses running around, at times moving towards a most exuberant realisation by incorporating the sea waves into the blend. At times the aforementioned elements are magnified, and vice versa, by significant piano incantations. And it is something which can be considered an impulse to help one break on through to the other side. The listener can hear sonic waves upsurging and then decreasing in volume until there is silence. Even those vibrations being added to the rear part of a sonic progression make up a change I would like to call tectonic. For the resemblance and then against the difference, for the repetition and then against the difference. Thoroughly enchanting, frequently transcendental release is a part of the library of Laverna. Apex charmer in all-encompassing sense.