- Avant-garde
- Folktronica
- Alternative
- Experimentalism
- Ambient
- Glitch-folk
- Glitchtronica
- Post-folk
- Organic electronica
- Sampledelic
Comment: Mark
Hamn is the pseudonym of an Italian musician, Francesco Giannico. It
starts off like a music example of having lost its gravitation and as
if coming out of a sinking car audio. Later on, it is filled in with
succumbed shrieks, intense rattles, microscopic noises, thick bass
frequencies, drawn-out sonic effects. And then a guitar comes in
sometime to provide more anchored pinpoint for this 6-notch release
under Maetrixsolution, Complementary Distribution (and temporally the Canadian Nishi imprint). By
the way, by talking about Canadians, especially about these ones
coming out from Quebec province I have to mention such artists as
Simon Trottier, Nicolas Bernier, and Vincent Fuguere (Muhr) who also
like to endeavour at crossroads of glitched-out electronica, folk and
modern classical compositions. However, Francesco Giannico likes to
play with the format and possible deviations and artificial errors
within it. It is like an elegant standing against the form and
pressure of a correct conversation and sterile creative process which
are the obvious sources of killing our natural sense of
(self-)expression. We just used to act in a way because we are
teached to act in that way. Regarding what we should or must do, in
fact, we do not have a comprehensive, experience-based understanding
at all. We are like digitalised creatures with a narrow middle
spectrum of frequencies if to be compared to the analogy of the
sound. Just be ready to take one detail, then another and start to
combine. Yet Francesco Giannico by standing in the middle of
scattered sonic chaos will ultimately create blissful monumental
spans and flashes. In a word, it is an exquisite listening.
