North Electric Mist further solidifies Valerio Lombardozzi’s position in contemporary electronic music. The MinimalRome musician composes with an enviable eloquence, shifting sands of sound to create expansive works.
Stamped with the unmistakable electro elegance of its producer
Since March 2020, global bicycle sales have soared. Ovens glowed red hot as baking became the distraction. Yoga mats multiplied, newly born matties soon growing into adult mats and occupying living room floors with wanton abandon. Good intentions abounded, few lasted.
Free time can be very difficult to harness as it is extremely difficult to define. A firm ear may always be clamped to speakers, on whatever device is going, but the sifting for new music can sometimes be less committed than it should be. This has been my own personal case. Despite consuming vast quantities of audio in the last six months, I know much appeared on my radar before slipping right back off. Composite Profuse’s North Electric Mist on The Netherlands’ Onrijn Records was one such example. A lapse, and one to right.
Five tracks make up the record, a record stamped with the unmistakable electro elegance of its producer. The title track sets the tone of the EP. Nascent chords skim across a gulf of burgeoning rhythms which arrive with incising precision. Understated and reduced, the piece ebbs and flows with an organic quality as notes grow in ever varying shades. Beats are bolstered for “Linear Drifting.” That same sense of subtle change, which permeates the opener, is once more present, brooding slabs of bass and an otherworldly chill adding new layers. “Away Team” follows a similar line while allowing a more playful line. Drums are drenched, soaked snares rasping behind a silken screen of synth chords before spirals of keys sail and soar.
Drums are drenched, soaked snares rasping behind a silken screen of synth chords before spirals of keys sail and soar.
Animistic Beliefs introduce the flip with their own take on “North Electric Mist.” The dreamy nocturnal tones of the original are further inked with a sharped line of percussion taking root. The closer would sit quite comfortably in the canon of Heinrich Dressel, another of Valerio Lombardozzi’s monikers alongside Composite Profuse. “A Blink of Hope Into the Fog” floats on banks of sound, notes rising through a blanketing haze of analogue elegance.
North Electric Mist further solidifies Valerio Lombardozzi’s position in contemporary electronic music. The MinimalRome musician composes with an enviable eloquence, shifting sands of sound to create expansive works with Animistic Beliefs adopting adapting the Composite Profuse palette in their remix. Thought-provoking music from beginning to end.
North Electric Mist is available on Onrijn. [Bandcamp]
