This is the first time that Etienne Jaumet and Fabrizio Rat have collaborated together, they have created this instrumental album, using prepared piano and modular Synths. Etienne is probably best known for being in Zombie Zombie while Fabrizio has put out 4 previous solo albums and 8 Eps and performs in Techno clubs.
This album opens with Rive Opposte the slow building repetitive synths and gongs with some cymbals that slowly build as you slowly fall into the trance that it induces, as if you are floating across a very calm and wide river as what sounds like a jews harp layers in some extra vibration.
Sentiero has a slow thoughtful progression with what sounds like a rather annoying ticking clock in the left speaker as the synth slowly mutates and revolves around a simple pattern to build something far more complex.
Visione Pop has a sprightly opening before the sound of fazers come in and out of the mix as well as skittish percussion and gong like sounds from the prepared piano that mimic the sounds that John Cage sometimes employed.
Soffiare Insieme has waves of building sound as if you are being showered with the bubbles being blown out of a machine at the side of the stage as the intense motif keeps repeating as all sorts of other weirdness goes on around it, I almost expected someone to start blowing a whistle in the middle of this tune.
Magnetismo is the sounds of synth seduction in a vast cavernous nightclub as you feel ever more drawn to the clubber whose caught your eye, or who you think has caught your eye, because by the time this comes on your already properly mashed and almost anyone looks stunning, still you shimmy and shake towards them and hopefully they do the same in return and the magnetism works its magic.
Trasmutazione has whale like sounds and a hammering noise set against sine wave contortions and an ululating pulsing sound.
The album concludes with Profundita that has a long deep tone onto which all sorts of percussive sounds and droplets are added with what also sounds like some deeply oblique backing vocals and the odd splash of a piano flourish for good measure.
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