Adriani, Alessandro: Morphic Dreams
Adriani, Alessandro: Morphic Dreams
Format: VINYL LP
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Artist: Adriani, Alessandro
Label: Stroboscopic Artefac
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 5414165088769
Genre: Electronic
Double-LP version comes in a gatefold sleeve. Hot on the heels of his preliminary EP on Stroboscopic Artefacts and two years after the landing of his 2016-released inaugural LP, Montagne Trasparenti, Mannequin helmsman Alessandro Adriani returns with his highly anticipated full-length debut for Stroboscopic Artefacts, Morphic Dreams. Throughout eleven cuts painstakingly executed but lacking not an iota of the fresh, spontaneous oomph that made his sound stand out of the crowd of techno producers to have emerged over the past decade, Adriani lays the foundations to a suspended sound imaginarium, governed by it's own rules and principles of gravity. Revolving around the notions of sublimation and quest for inner balance, Morphic Dreams is comprised of four distinct sequences, conceived and designed as reflections of four mental states, each of them linked to the four alchemical elements - i.e. Water, Earth, Air and FireFluid and enveloping, the first part takes the listener in some zero-G uterine vortex, pitching, and rolling from the slo-burning exotic sensuality and tribal spell of "The Tropical Year" to the trunk-bending, arpeggiated fast-track pulse of "Storm Trees", through the feverish electro swing of "Raindance". Entering a further abrasive, minerally rich phase, Adriani unleashes his dark side with optimum conviction. Deeply anchored in earthly materiality, this new evolution stage starts off to the frantic Italo bass of "Dissolving Images", rushing headlong into a kaleidoscopic maelstrom of fractured reflections and nasty giallo-like ambience. The delirious body stretch sequence then rather abruptly swerves onto a calmer flux with "Dust/Mist", a much enticingly hip-swaying collaboration with Simon Crab, ex-member of the seminal '80s UK industrial-experimental band Bourbonese Qualk, before "Casting The Runes" engulfs you into a tormented world of swollen eeriness and disquieting esoterism. Back to a widescreen showcase of drone-y distortions, nasty acid swashes and other quirky drum programming, "Hors de Combat" opens a new chapter, shortly followed by the playful bass intricacies and modular jeu-de-piste of "Invisible Seekers", featuring Avian affiliate and longtime friend Shawn O'Sullivan. A further mind-expanding piece, "Crow" deploys it's blackened wings wide and high as a chaos of martial percussions and liquefying synths slivers crash past the red-hot skyline. A fluttering melodic interlude, "Things About To Disappear" blazes a clean trail for "Make Words Split And Crack" to flourish, slowly but surely blooming into a nonstop grandiose twelve-minute-shy finale geared up with the stirring cacophonic force of a Ligetian symphony and something of an epic-scale Kubrickian soundtrack.
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