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6/01/2019

Globoscuro – 3+3+3 (2018)




  • Post-industrial 
  • Avant-garde 
  • Acousmatic music 
  • Experimentalism 
  • Conceptual 
  • Psycho-acoustic 
  • Electro-acoustic 
  • Art music

Comment: the Italian musician Globobscuro has been around for a while with his stunning industrial and experimental sounds to provide an alternative point of view about music and life in general. Emiliano Pietrini's recent work of a couple of tracks is inspired about semi-mythological philosopher Pythagoras and his fancy against the number 3. Additionally, Pythagoras did live in Syracuse, Sicily (recently a part of Italy). Musically it is highly arousing due to vociferous guitar noises, elliptic patterns of tape manipulation, hazy electro-acoustic litters at bottom and ennobling atmospheric hovers in between. Even if the guitars are the most prominent element within the whole it is not about rock music at all because the instruments are not treated in that way. On the other side, it is really beautiful in a rare sense of this term. Beauty is not a thing on its own it is a fertile and organic relation between the aforementioned characteristics even if they are uncanny, provoking and destructive. I like the industrial musicians because they used to be honest because of having no urge to provide aesthetical and economic compromises. Instead of it they have been providing measures to undermine general models and instructions with ultimate intention to liberate the energy of sole parts. The outing is a bit in the discography of Hortus Conclusus. And the cover print is amusing and deep at the same time.