The delicate, suggestively cinematic and ambient-like aura of Giannico’s music easily fit the microgenres and stylistic belonging of this label whose objective is to promote soothing electronica with a vaporous film-noir slow pace.
Melodious, semi-classical and fragile
Francesco Giannico is one sound artist whose creative signature is at the cross between easy listening modern classical, drifting drone music and impressionistic then abstract ambient soundscapes. I discovered this artist a while thanks to his collaboration with Matteo Uggeri for a collaborative album signed on Boring Machines.
This new effort is an homage to The Howl by Allen Ginsberg, emblematic figure of the beat generation of writers with Ferlinghetti, Watts, Miller, Kerouac and many others whose ideals is to suggest an alternative way of seeing and experiencing life like lonesome adventurers outside of normative codes of our hyper-functionalist modern societies. This to say that this album clearly illustrates a dream-like state and need of withdrawing far from our usual daily path—and is welcomed by Tulsa-based indie label Unknown Town.
The delicate, suggestively cinematic and ambient-like aura of Giannico’s music easily fit the microgenres and stylistic belonging of this label whose objective is to promote soothing electronica with a vaporous film-noir slow pace. This melodious, semi-classical and fragile electronic ambient album does not lack of charm and will seduce listeners of Satie’s instantaneous, ludic and unobtrusive little piano pieces as well as fans of ambient pop, instrumental post-rock and downtempo (from Eluvium, Fennesz, to Stars Of The Lid and Bing & Ruth).
Destroyed By Madness is available on Unknown Tone.
