- New Age
- Electronic
music
- Alternative
- Improvised music
- Smooth jazz
- Synth-pop
- Crossover
- Krautrock
- Kosmische Musik
- Worldbeat
- World music
Comment: all
the music Livorno, Italy-based artist Massimo Ruberti has been
creating is wonderful. On the other side, the quality is not changed
worse while he has changed the nature and pace of his music over the
years. It may be even more adequate to admit the changes have been
organic and made step by step so one feels difference and an
analogous appearance at the same time. While listening to this 4-notch release I have to assume Massimo Ruberti has added a clear
pop inflicted tendency to his sound though doing it in his own
particular way. It may be considered inevitable and organic if an
experimental artist has explored many kind of finesse through the
sound and thereafter tries to test his/her craftiness by creating a
sublime pop sound. Here we are, at a sultry crossroad of world music,
smooth jazz, ambient pop, sophisti-pop and synth-pop. Smooth jazz as
a style is frequently signified as superficial and slight though in
the recent context the aforementioned adjectives are turned off. A
dominant thread is an adept employing of singing and vowel effects it
is something I have a little encountered in the artist's oeuvre.
Bombastic yet profound orchestrations used to alternate with loose
Kosmische and psychedelic ambient drenched synths and at times more
minimal rhythms play predominant role. Robots are also represented
over there by denoting a transitional time span when Kraftwerk
changed from a motorik krautrock combo into an electro and techno pop
juggernaut somewhere between 1973-74. The other aspect is related to
an esoteric impression as if one is dwelling in the middle of a rain
forest and being a thousands of miles away from the civilization.
Especially it can be heard at
Wilderness. The release which
undoubtedly makes difference is a part of the discography of
Nostress, an Italian imprint.
