🇮🇹 Industrial [r]Evolution — Full Album Analysis
"The gamble taken by Sheen—to completely detach the listener from their own dimension, kidnapping them into their "elsewhere"—is a resounding victory for the duo... An album that defies schematic classification."
RDM Records
1/16/20161 min read
🖋️ GIOVANNI ROSSI (Industrial [r]Evolution)
"The gamble taken by Sheen—to completely detach the listener from their own dimension, kidnapping them into their "elsewhere"—is a resounding victory for the duo.
The creative brainchild of Romina Daniele and Lorenzo Marranini feeds on a complex and profound variety of sonic impulses, inlaid with the metrics of the Neapolitan vocalist and embellished by the multi-instrumentalist’s arrangements.
The electronic gusts with which Marranini envelops the opening tracks shift unexpectedly into the poignant guitar of "Absence VI," before transcending into the ambient evolutions of the album's finale. At the same time, Romina Daniele expresses her well-known and appreciated talent through vocal lines that range from spoken-word recitativo—where her poems provide the textual substrate—to experimental vocalizations where her voice unfolds its full range of color.
What does it mean to be authentic? Romina asks at the beginning of the album. It is precisely around this question that the work develops, entering the intimate inner worlds of the two artists through nine tracks that describe a difficult, uncomfortable journey in search of what remains of the world's authenticity. And these two musicians bring plenty of authenticity to the table, not hesitating to strip themselves bare artistically. They cast aside any craving for pure virtuoso display in favor of infusing soul and substance into a work fueled by genuine passion.
Absence is an album that defies schematic classification because it is genetically constructed from the intersection of the visionary talents of two musicians who make sound inquiry and experimentation their creative breath. The gamble mentioned at the beginning is exactly this: to tear down every preconception and label to challenge the listener on unknown ground—a terrain so rich with surprises and so stimulating that it demands multiple listens to fully savor the details of this varied and sublime fresco." — Giovanni Rossi, Industrial [r]Evolution
