The vinyl debut of Matteo Mazreku’s Aseq project shows ambient electronic glitter merged with the imprints’ adeptness for constructive and often destructive audio visual delights.
Microscopic melodies reverberate through the fog
The vinyl debut of Matteo Mazreku’s Aseq project shows ambient electronic glitter merged with the imprints’ adeptness for constructive and often destructive audio visual delights. There’s a certain quality behind each track that’s hard to pin down; maybe it’s the fluid shapes that form and deform (listen to opener “Reno”), or the glitchy/moody and baffling Aphex Twin-like rhythms (ref. “Rodano.”) Nonetheless, a full length that goes the extra mile, Aseq breaks through with lighter, pitter-patter beatwork and dissolving grooves (ref. “Reuss”) as these brittle time capsules shed just enough emotion to grab our senses.
At the heart of it all, this polished, almost metallic sheen that RIVERS exhibits transcends the usual abstract outer shell—tracks like “Saane” show the artist’s use of submerged cybernetic waves that seemingly unfold layer by layer, breathing its unusually compelling polyrhythms. As “Linth” details indecipherable ambient blips that are light years from us, Marco Simioni reverse engineers the same track with a percussive pulse that treads more on darker industrial and technoid elements than its original glowing aura. RIVERS closes blissfully with “Thur,” a surreal gravitational pull of the senses where distant whispering voices appear and disappear while microscopic melodies reverberate through the fog. An exceptional debut, and an artist we’ve earmarked as one to watch out for. Recommended for fans of Deru, Richard Devine, and Phoenecia.
RIVERS is available on Detroit Underground. [Bandcamp]
