The multi-instrumentalist Orlando Lostumbo is initially trained in free-form jazz music, thus this album contains substantial jazzy elements melted with glowing electronic-inflected textures.
An original album of stylistic consistency
Music for Laboratories is one enigmatic and innovative outcome of long time musical writing by Orlando Lostumbo (aka Spheric). I discovered his organically dynamic and hybrid experimentation a while ago with the sound artist, holy minimalist pioneer and ethnomusicologist Claudio Ricciardi (ex-Prima Materia). The multi-instrumentalist Orlando Lostumbo is initially trained in free-form jazz music, thus this album contains substantial jazzy elements melted with glowing electronic-inflected textures.
The conceptual background of Music For Laboratories is focused on discoveries and advanced paradigms in an age of science, in particular in micro-physics and atomist fields of theory and practice. This angle of observation on fundamental visions and debates on physical-human nature genesis and development clearly colors the mood and atmosphere of this album which tends to be rather abstract, placid, experimental, and concise. The strength of this album comes from the ability to complement minimal acoustic leading patterns, sometimes aleatoric, improvised with granular, fractal, and spectral electronic scintillations. The result is in between formal electro-acoustic researches (GRM/ina), space-age ambient music which could be conceived for planetarium and methodical modern jazzy phrases. An original album of stylistic consistency.
Music for Laboratories is available on St.An.Da..
