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ECHRAN, BLACK ELECTRONIC METRONOMY
Txt: Marco Mancuso and Drexkode/ Translation: Giulia Artioli
Their fusion led to the recent release of S/t on Ebria records in co production with Small Voices , the first label giving voice to an auto-production relaunching the value of music instead of the strictly economic one, espousing the notion of no-copyright, the second label counting in its catalogue examples of an industrial sound and/or obscure of the recent past: Maurizio Bianchi, Nocturnal Emission, T.A.C, Z'ev .
S/t is a work well welcomed by the musical critics both on the newspapers and on the web, at least for who is careful to seize sound evolutions standing out in a plethora of releases clogging the musical sphere. It is an outstanding result even because it occurred in a phase in which electro music was widening once again its spectre of action, through the fusion of the existing material, the use of digital in emulation of analogical, the recovery of low quality of the forgotten patrimony of 8bits, up to glitch looking back nostalgically once exceeded the cult of error.
In S/t Echran make their poetics sensitive without trapping sound within a textual message and without risking having singing adding elements unconnected with their aesthetics. They resort to acting with the voice of Fabio Volpi, who talks in French and is like a diverted alter ego, a figure representative of each monster hiding in our neighbour. Pathologies loved by media. A CD with a never boring repetition of loops maybe thanks to a progressive dilatation and superimposition of other elements in slow and continuous accumulation of tension. The images of the project were stolen from a master of cinematographic poetry: Tarkovsky who, in Stalker , manages to let you enter a never-ending loop: the long sequence of faces and the endless sound of the rail.
Maurizio Bianchi, Nocturnal Emission, T.A.C, Z'ev .