"languid and spatial psychedelia, extracted like an elixir from the whole of the parts, letting evaporate the superfluous and maintaining the necessary."
- Sodapop
"always with a great formal clarity"
- Revue & Corrigée
"Their music has a real warmth, somewhere between the sylvan melancholy of a Popol Vuh soundtrack and the sweaty fug of an extended Can jam. "
- The Wire
"Cemento offers completely unpredictable landings, thanks to a painstaking research work capable of producing effects
lysergic and alienating, but always children of a clear and clear direction."
- Music Map
“elegant gestures help to magnify the utter weirdness on display."
- Beach Sloth
"Un album aux spirales expérimentales denses et aux turbulences conceptuelles. Très fortement recommandé."
- Silence and Sound
“Ein spannendes Album zwischen klassischer und moderner elektronischer Musik für das Kopfkino am Abend.“
- handwritten-mag
“Sperimentazioni, scaglie melodiche e una reminiscenza kraut che funge da spazio per voli ambientali contemporanei”.
-Il Manifesto
credits
released November 12, 2021
Niton
El Toxyque: electric marranzanu, mic'd fan heater, springs, oscillators, prepared six strings banjo, theremin, mystic pipe, loops, Ikea stereo delay, effects
Luca Xelius Martegani: Roland SH-101, Korg MS20, Korg SQ10, DIY modular analog synth, Doepfer A-100, Korg Poly 800, Memorymoog, Xelius' Fuzz, sound direction
Zeno Gabaglio: 5-strings electric cello, 5-strings acoustic carbon cello, effects, loops
Recorded between May 2015 and December 2019 in Switzerland and Italy.
Edit, mix and stereo mastering at Nitön – laboratorio sperimentazione sonora (Barasso – Italy).
Artwork by Julian Lars Gosper.
Thanks to
Pablo Assandri, Roberto Mucchiut, Alan Alpenfelt, Alfio Mazzei, Luca Pedroni and Dimitri Loringett.
Supported by Pulver und Asche, the Associazione culturale Manon and the Swiss public fund Swisslos.
odd instrumentation and a psychedelic approach to music, the freedom and constant search for new sonic horizons is something we feel really close to our vision, One of the best act these days.
-NITON shameless records rocks
got here via drew daniel: "meandering, active mid-range burble-bubble-music that is neither pastoral ambient nor "noise" but in some middle space" shameless records rocks
because he is a musician we highly admire and whose musical vision is unique just as his techincal chops, what Julian really does is bringing joy and beauty to listeners.
- NITON shameless records rocks
Scottish artist swaddles ’70s krautrock grooves in guitar-based ambient, resulting in drone music that feels strangely featherlight. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 23, 2022