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Alessandro Calbucci + Matteo Uggeri: The Distance
Frans de Waard, Vital WeeklyI heard of Matteo Uggeri (field recordings, objects, mixing) but Alessandro Colbucci (guitar, loops, mixing) seems to be a new name for me. They recommend headphone listening, but I'm afraid that's something I hardly do. The have four pieces here of drone related music. A swirling mass of electronics [NOTE: we didn't use any contact mic], processed guitar sounds, the scratching of the surface with contact microphones [NOTE: we didn't use any contact mic] and street and rain sounds make up a very decent ambient drone releases. Atmospheric, dark, doomy and perhaps as such not a real innovative musical thing, but also as such quite some nice music. Which is of course good enough. http://www.vitalweekly.net/649.html Richard Pinnel, The Watchful Ear The Why Not CDr label, run by musician Goh Lee Kwang also continues to turn out new releases thick and fast and, generally speaking the quality is high. Two more arrived here this week, the first of which is a drone / field recordings duo entitled The Distance by the previously unknown to me duo of Alessandro Colbucci and Matteo Uggeri. Its a pleasant listen, looping acoustic drones take up most of the space in the music but the use of field recordings works well, even if they aren’t so original (the first thing we hear as the first track begins is the crackle of fireworks). http://www.thewatchfulear.com/?p=458 |
