- Modern classical
- Microtonal
- Post-classical
- Ambient
- Drone
- Avant-garde
- Experimentalism
- Minimalism
- Piano music
- Ambient drone
- Dark ambient
Comment:
prolific Italian, Modena-residing musician Marco Lucchi's 5-notch
outing is a bit different with one exception than some other albums I
have heard by him so far. Of course, there is represented drone
music, his profound minimalist approach inclined to reach profound,
organic mysticism and otherworldly spirituality of dark ambient which
is being characteristic to other Italian juggernauts like Ain Soph,
Stefano Musso aka Alio Die, Gianluigi Gasparetti aka Oöphoi, and
Lorenzo Montanà (just naming a few of the crowd) as well. Indeed, in
some tracks like Shady and the title track spiritual dimensions are
vamped up with the aid of vibrant drones being accomplished by
immersive yet slightly awe-induced orchestrations as if walking
around under the ground, in a catacomb somewhere in Southern Italy
embraced by skulls, decay and the presence of centuries as an
ennobling and frightening continuum. One can perceive the presence of
Grim Reaper who represents both death and life, existence and
disappearance (the counterparts can be evaluated and ennobled being
placed side by side – there is no need to live forever, there is
the need to be active/creative and contemplative and search for unity
with the rest of Universe). At
Psiche Abbandonata, the
aforementioned exception, a listener can enjoy a skillful, expressive
improvisation on an oboe by Paulo Chagas being accompanied on a
sparse piano accompaniment by Matteo Marchisano-Adamo. The
overwhelming, mind-broadening outing is a bit in the discography of
the Mexican imprint Breathe Compilations.
