“Qu4drilogy is a concept work for four albums by Frank Riggio. The concept is fully finished with the additional album Versions / Outtakes—released exactly one year after the first part was published.”
A bewildering and baffling collection
The impacting series culminates with fifteen tracks, on which the multi-talented soundsmith goes all out, presenting a bewildering and baffling collection that doesn’t leave a single detail uncovered. These explosive pieces have a distinctively Frank Riggio core that rummages through broken technoid forms and dilapidated electronics. It is astonishing how Riggio, who is unmatched by any other musician in his ability to find rhythmically corrosive beats, bass, and distortion, can create such potent yet somber soundtrack productions.
Teetering on the outer edges of tribal reflections and glitchy sonic pulses, these abstract trajectories are as ethereal as they are mysterious. Qu4drilogy (Versions / Outtakes), as a result, is quantum music; cohesive, connected, and in a field of its own. With surreal, quasi-industrial soundscapes and rattling waves of eroded lava flows, Frank Riggio is a force to be reckoned with. A welcomed closure to an outstanding series.
Qu4drilogy (Versions / Outtakes) is available on Hymen. [Bandcamp]
