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Artist: Ascanio Borga (@)
Title: Bad Ground
Format: CD
Label: self-released
Rated: *****
Italian mathematician and musician Ascanio Borga draws no line between harsh and subtle. His somber isolationist post-industrial experimental drone music plays with minimal light and maximal shadow in a way that allows for a deeper exploration of the dark-ambient soundscapes that his musical brush paints. He conquers and masters the ability to create and exploit space and does so with skillful taste. Sounds are few and far in between and only sometimes augmented by the coloration of an underlying background sound, your bad ground, possibly...
"Bad Ground" is a 47 minute long 2 piece suite sub-divided into a total of 8 separate movements, the distinction of which might not always be unquestionable, but aids in the development of an evolutionary thread of some sorts.
Unfortunately my choosy CD player disliked this CD-R release and I couldn't fully enjoy its entire duration, but before it became unbearably skippy, I actually got a glimpse of that random and seldom warpy light I mentioned earlier, a light that Borga might want to further pursue and chase to find an even more interesting dimension where he could possibly not draw a line between light and darkness, just as well as he doesn't between harsh and gentle. Definitely worthy of every dark-ambient-experimental-drone loving listener's attention.


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