Interactive Poll # -45 (or something)

Lewian:  Radian “Here’s Shift” Begins with some shimmery percussive sounds, with regular drums in background.  A building of tension.  Some bass kicks in and hints of keys, shimmering continues.  A few electronic beeps and bips.  Tension continues to build with sustained notes on guitar?  Or?  Drips and drops of high notes, come in, along with the continued sustain, then more percussion.  Some string-type washes come in and the piece begins to chill out as it is drawing near the end, finalizing in a fadeout. “tg11”  Starts with some static noise and some way off sounds, a couple of drum hits.  Waves of static, shifting.  Static gets stronger, and weaves in and out, with the drum sounds continuing and a bit of feedback.  This actually feels very spooky and enigmatic to me.  Occasional clinks, then abruptly ends.  “Scary Objects”  Big buzz and clanks at the start this time.  Some boomy buzzes kick in with the clanks.  Then bleeps do a fly-by.  Jumpy percussion with slidy sounds and now some keyboard and string clangs.  Feedback ensues, while bleeps continue.  Some boingggs and then some feed-backy guitar again while percussion fades out and some low hums begin to enter the scene.  Guitar again, some strumming with feedback, and clacky bits, all the while percussion keeps on percussing and some sonar sounds are heard, along with a few more boingggs, and a repeated note, then ends.  Definitely scary stuff.  “Subcolours”  For this one, I am going to eschew my usual trying to describe what happens in the piece.  I enjoyed seeing them play, added an extra element to the piece for me.  And I would say this wandered into more psychedelic territory, much of psych was actually very slow-moving, despite the flash of some of the most popular artists.  Definitely profoundly intriguing all around.

Lorenzo:  No turned up nose here!  Giovanni Lindo Ferretti & Ambrogio Sparagna “L'orologio della passione” Concertina-like instrument opens, with the vocalist singing, appropriately, passionately.  Sorry, I know you told me before what the concertina-type instrument is, but I can’t recall the name.  This reminds me also of a sea or village sort of song, I really love whatever those horn-like instruments are.  Beautiful.  Song shifts into a sort of hornpipe, I would call it (although it may not be the technical term), fast-paced and jolly feeling.  “Sonno sonno”  Mournful pipe opens with a gorgeous female vocal, full in sound, with a bit of echo.  Love the sound of this, not sure where it was recorded, but this song sounds very like in a church, at least with the effects (or maybe not). Note:  Now I read the ending!  It was in a church.  😊 Sounds like an early music piece to me, esp with the ending.  “Madre” Again, the lord-I-wish-I-could-recall-the-instrument-name-instrument.  Deep male voice now, with strings coming in.  Obviously a song to the singer’s mother, emotional.  Really pretty interplay with the instrumentation.  Now a chorus of vocals, female and male chime in.  “Santo”   A fast romp, and very short, I was expecting something different from the title…very joyful, with all of the singers again.  “Madre Maria, il lament”  Here is another sea-faring sort of sound, to start.  I was again expecting perhaps a more mournful tune from the name, but I think the lament part will show in the lyrics.  Is he perhaps trying to bargain with her, in remorse for misdeeds of some sort?  “Intimisto”  Here is the deep-voiced male singer again, with the chorus joining in, softly.  Feels like a prayer to me.  Pretty playing on the concertina-like instrument, in a brief solo.  When the chorus rejoins, it is full and swelling.  The male vocalist solos for a bit, joined again by the chorus, then this back-and-forth repeats several times, to a very emotional ending by the male vocalist.  Very moving.