DECALOGUE OF DARKNESS

What drives a musical group to change the skin so often, even publishing 2 CDs at the same time, one the exact opposite of the other? Want to surprise? A strong sense of experimental research? Two souls within the same project? I believe that "Decalogue of Darkness" and "Navels Falling into a Living Origami" (as usual cryptic titles for their records) are all this, but the demonstration that in 2018 we can still again compose excellent music both experimental, both "traditional". To say the true "Decalogue of Darkness" reminds us closely of their previous work ("Dodecahedron") but I feel I can say that the Decalogue is far more inspired, more exciting, perhaps thanks to the mellotron, perhaps the absolutely dramatic and dreamy mood of the entire album. Accompanied by evocative videos (I suggest you visit their youtube page!) The various chapters that make up the work (no title ... only numbers of the various chapters ... as in Dodecahedron!) Are the result of stylistic cohesion, that only the great groups can have. "Chapter I, II, III, IV, VI, X" are the best of the italic matrix instrumental has given birth in the last few years, inevitably recalling the great of the past (I hear the echo of "Darwin", "Ys", "Zarathustra" throughout the album ...) "Navels Falling into a living Origami" is even a single 50-minute suite without subdivisions, a long and slow flow of landscapes, sometimes progressive, often experimental at the edge of dissonance, at the borders of new age and intimate jazz, with an approach to sound that is clearly reminiscent of Floyd post-Barrett and pre-darkside. In the end of this Maelmstrom something happens that is rare in the music of Daal... A part sung! Guglielmo Mariotti (former companion of Guidoni in Taproban) paints a ballad with a macabre text accompanied only by acoustic guitars, how to seal the end of this authentic journey into the unconscious in an almost pastoral way. Decalogue of Darkness ***** Navels Falling into a Living Origami ****