- Drone
- Avant-garde
- Experimentalism
- Electro-acoustic
- Minimalism
- Microtonal
- Sound Art
- Leftfield
- Avant-electronica
- Post-classical
- Modern classical
Comment: this
couple of very extended compositions clocking in at a 38 minute is
not a nascent one. Vice versa, it was released on an imprint called
Chew-Z which does not exist anymore. Fortunately another domestic
imprint called Grey Sparkle is still with its discography up there.
Yet it was supported by another defunct label as Canebagnato Records either. More profoundly, it was issued 10
years ago but the music is in spite of it thoroughly evergreen. Why
should it be otherwise, isn't? Although it does not involve catchy
hooks in the terms of pop songs it can be considered a poppy instance
within the experimental electronic music scene.
Pietra 1 is
not the kind of it because the artist is inclined to have experiments
with electro-acoustic sounds yet at the end of the composition it is
going to lose its austere and rigid facade remarkably. At the ending
part those subtle droning waves are flowing over the crackling bits
and incisive sounds conjured up with contact microphones. It is going
to remind me of something being produced by Penguin Cafe Orchestra
many decades ago. However,
Pietra 2 introduces even the more
acquainted associations due to slowed down drones, lengthy piano
chords and poignant electronic effects and then as if coming from
nowhere putting on a swarm of fantastically chirping cinematic
droning which would without any obstacles be the epic finishing
backbone to the maudlin motion pictures. In a nutshell, I applaud the
effort of Christian Alati.
