Logoplasm
Testa Piena d'Orche
Afe 2007

Testa Piena d'Orche [35:11]

Starting AND ending the month with Logoplasm, the husband/wife duo from Roma, Italia, who offer their companion piece to Attimo in un Wormhole as a limited CD instead of download. As good as Attimo was, I'll have to give some extra kudos for the change in cover art - it quickly sums up what is to be heard, managing to seem spacious as well as warm and humanistic. Perhaps something more too, because this isn't simply music - it's a climate, made of unique texture, disillusioned melody, and mysterious, unrecognized internal meanings that only serve to deepen the sense of "strangeness-yet-beauty". It could be terrifying, but in some way, this climate ends up unexpectedly heartwarming and consoling. You can't and should not ignore it.

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For a work made up of so many disparate elements, Testa Piena d'Orche has turned out a pretty linear affair, moving seamlessly and effortlessly through three different segments. Starting with a tender two-tone motive over a prolonged light-pad, the piece builds into a melange of drones, screeching and fantastic noises, then flows into a relaxed state of summery musique concrète and askew guitar pluckings, which release themselves in a suspenseful thunderstorm. The advice of listening on the highest possible volume is well spent, as it wants to be enjoyed as a supernatural experience, not a classical composition, nor as an intellectual or conceptual work. The greatest achievement, however, is that the two have managed to build a half-hour long piece that never looses its ease. If you listen closely, you will hear the ambition, just as much as the voice of the dreamer. You can clap your hands now. -Tokafi