Autistici has always been less a musician in the conventional sense and more a careful gardener of sound, planting seeds of texture and waiting patiently as they unfurl into strange, delicate blossoms. "Familiarity Enfolded" - the second in a trilogy of collaborative explorations on Audiobulb - takes this ethos and pushes it deeper into the soil of shared authorship, where the lines between one artist’s gesture and another’s reply blur into something fluid, organic, and unpredictable.

This record is not about dominance or ego but about listening: the art of stepping back, of allowing Tomo-Nakaguchi, A Dancing Beggar, Russ Young, and OdNu to breathe into the compositions and, in turn, letting those breaths become the air in which Autistici’s own ideas float. The result is music that feels like a weather system - sometimes clear, sometimes hazed with fog, sometimes rumbling with an unseen storm just over the horizon.

The opening remix of Tomo-Nakaguchi’s “Twilight Glow Of The Sky” does precisely what its title suggests: it hovers in suspension, twilight as sound, every detail in slow dissolve, as if the sky itself were remembering how to dim. “Caiplie’s Hermitage” with A Dancing Beggar is more grounded yet haunted, like discovering an abandoned chapel on a windswept coast, stones singing back centuries of salt and silence. Russ Young’s contribution, “Dissolved In Light”, seems to melt at the edges, a piece that refuses to remain solid, spilling its form like water across glass.

And then there is “Fata Morgana”, a 20-minute mirage co-created with OdNu and A Dancing Beggar, which could be the record’s heart: a hall of shifting illusions, radiant yet unstable, where you are never quite sure whether the music is drawing you nearer or pulling you further away. It is both destination and disappearance, a sonic horizon that keeps receding just as you reach it.

There’s a quiet irony at play here. For an album called "Familiarity Enfolded", what you encounter feels anything but familiar. It feels uncanny, otherworldly, but also intimate - like rediscovering a dream you forgot you had, or finding a photograph of a place you’ve never visited yet somehow recognize.

Autistici, long aligned with labels like 12k, Home Normal, Hibernate, and Eilean Rec, has built a body of work rooted in the fragile dialogue between technology and environment, industry and wilderness, structure and chance. This new chapter underscores that philosophy by dissolving the boundary between self and other. To collaborate, here, is to surrender control - and in that surrender lies the album’s deepest resonance: a reminder that music, at its best, isn’t possession but communion.

And perhaps that is the quiet message tucked within these four pieces: to be enfolded is to accept. To step into a sound not entirely your own. To recognize that sometimes the most beautiful creations arrive when we stop clutching at authorship and instead let the currents carry us.