These raw experimental electronic studies are an original and comprehensive document about Giuseppe Verticchio’s capability to infuse his own creative personality into sonorous art forms, whatever are the instrumental medium and technical tools.
Engulfed in massive electronic oscillations and percolating motifs
Giuseppe Verticchio is a prolific and multi-sided sound artist whose musical catalogue admits an incredibly vast array of ambient subgenres, sometimes with incursions into experimental music, empirical sound mapping then ethno-ritual new-age minimalism. This album is a collection of earliest materials and Verticchio’s challenging aleatoric manipulations in noise, drone and industrial music. In its entirety, this album is at a cross between Maurizio Bianchi and Eruption/Kluster, but with the addition of mantra-like possibilities and hypnagogic visions you might enjoy in albums such Affestunde by Popol Vuh and in LamonteYoung raga-esque improvisations. The result is truly original and leads the listener to something else than to purely raw and harsh sonorous abstraction.
Early Electronic Works – Caustic/Composite has a ritualistic heart engulfed in massive electronic oscillations and percolating motifs. I’m quite familiar with Nihm’s catalogue, and I consider these pieces to be close to what we can find in his earliest offerings for Afe Records and Weird Amplexus but with even more alien-like and obscure looped constructs as in the surprisingly frenzy and steadily rhythmical closing track “Composite #8” with its almost Conrad Schnitzler and Monoton elasticated retro-futurist energy. All in all, these raw experimental electronic studies are an original and comprehensive document about Giuseppe Verticchio’s capability to infuse his own creative personality into sonorous art forms, whatever are the instrumental medium and technical tools. A challenging, originally sculpted and conceptual album.
Early Electronic Works – Caustic/Composite is available on Zoharum. [Bandcamp]
