Label: Joy De Vivre – JDV088
Format: Cassette, Album
Country: Italy
Released: Nov 2024
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Avantgarde, Experimental
Distorted and delineated fragments of sound and memory collide on this new micro-release from Turin’s (spn) via Northern Italian label Joy De Vivre.
Everyday life experience lends itself to us believing that time moves in a straight line, as a constant and unwavering. But when that plane is shattered, reality contorts and memories can alter. Quietly working away in Italy’s Northern Provence, (spn) explores these principles through ingenious use of abstract and naive composition. Strings are pitched down and repeated into a resonant slurry, keys warble and tumble in a blurry haze and gabbled vocals are lost in the middle distance. The effects are disorientating though vaguely familiar, like being trapped in a zonked liminal state wedged between dream and reality. It’s a fleeting encounter that feels like an aural kaleidoscope of fractured imagery. Despite operating with a limited means, the Italian stretched his compositional arsenal to the achingly beautiful ‘Vagone Letto’, waltzing percussive piece ‘Coins’ and red-eyed sludge of ‘Mirafiori’, contorting spacetime at will and sounding like a lost Hype Williams demo at times. Interesting and unassuming new music and exactly the kind of thing you’d always hope to just stumble upon. (Mint / New - with free DL).
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Throughout 10 tracks the post-punk instincts of adolescent memory float in a calm and melancholic, albeit apocalyptic, sea like a journey along the peninsula on a regional train, between fleeting glances and post-industrial landscapes, ancient faces and contemporary distortions, the album oscillates between melody and noise without ever losing an instinctive and naive approach to composition.
Recorded at the end of summer 2024 and released by Joy de Vivre [JDV088] «segni particolari nessuno» is the first incarnation of a solo project of one of the two founders of Italian label Discount
Tracklist
1 portable performance
2 crumbs
3 television before bed
4 vagone letto
5 coins
6 i smell newspapers
7 lettuce
8 mirafiori
9 strada provinciale novanta
10 regular
