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1930's-era Italian opera sounds are swallowed by grand-but-foreboding orchestral maneuvers and spooky bells, seguing into the ghost-choirs and windblown expanse of the
2nd track. Amongst the shifting twilight sounds, random clatter, occasional breakage and Germanic voices are heard; those sporadic thumps and metallic twinges become more-or-less organized into a spastically twitching rhythm as somber piano floats above and bass pulsations blurt below. Rapid drum'n'bass percussion erupts here and there as the 3rd track comes into existence, overlaying those inconsistently aggressive rhythms with soft vocal croons and lush piano notes, carrying over sans beats to be joined by lush strings in the next track.
A continual breeze links with the 5th piece, a cool groove indeed; light-but-melancholy keyboarding is backed by subtle cymbalism, then by more persistently thumping breakbeats.The beautiful symphonics of track 8 are pumped up by a straightforwardly strutting beatsystem. Lightly mechanical rhythmication glitchily courses through the hovering haze of 12 which is adorned by twinkling tones and longing whispers.
Other tracks include spoken word bits, buzzing currents, street sounds, eerie electronics, Orientalish textures, spacey drones, clanging bells and an abundance of drastically distorted beats flailing in unpredictable patterns. Moods range from sweet to hyperactive to ominous to demented.
Smooth chords and chiming bleeps are swept through 14 (2:17) by ever-increasingly-agitated percussion, which sounds like a machine about to shake itself apart. Bass pulses and drumbeats propel wavering female vocal chords, synth drones and delicate keys throughout 15 (6:02). Just plain-old-piano notes and womanly vocalizations of uplifting words make closing piece 16 perhaps the biggest surprise of all when it doesn't swerve into chaotic craziness.
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