The Perfecto Black label is back and it does so this time with two great artists, Franco Armellini and Ignacio Berardi. His latest work, Twilight Memo and Command, resume a relentless trajectory.
Command is determined to bring to light the most edgy and dark beats that we love to present on Perfecto Black. Acid takes, frenetic fills, mutes, flanger effects, and distant-echoing metallic effects are artfully interspersed between spectral chorus segments and addictive hypnotic rhythms.
Twilight Memo is the best of the pack. Driving synths, nostalgic strings and whispering vocal takes set the right atmosphere for the magnanimous melodies that blend into the mix towards the long-awaited break.
The entire album manages to provide introspection, absorbing energy and twilight light, and that closes a record that knows how to turn musical pulp into a refreshing ambrosia juice. The more the record is listened to, the more difficult it is to locate it in a specific geographical location. His music seems to never solidify, to be a flow of sounds and impressions that never seem to stay fixed in place or memory, like a perfume or a quick vision of a body in motion, until it postulates as one of the True future values of tame and lustrous electronics.
The songs that are recorded on this album show the particular way of understanding the sound of both producers, located at the opposite end of what is commercial, what works, what works: what it does is, on the contrary, a kind of unstable magma of pulsations and glows, of melodic lines and blurred textures, pursuing a serene, spiritual, almost ascetic expression. All those languages and influences from which they drew dialogue on this record, creating new, different and highly evolved sound organisms.
Both producers have total command of the language, and here they have once again delved into the past to be inspired by another verse, more forceful and melancholic, but no less evocative. All in all, we can safely say that this work is on the verge of excellence.
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