{"title":"Fera","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"stupidamutaforma","title":"Stupidamutaforma","description":"\u003cp\u003eEarly morning sensory comfort, eyes decompressing, mind unraveling and body detachment creating circular forms and layers of thought. It’s like being inside a prism of shadows and light slowly cascading through lost memory cells. This is where ‘Stupidamutaforma’, Fera’s debut for Maple Death reveals its groundwork. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFera is Andrea De Franco, electronic composer from Southern Italy now residing in Bologna, best known for his work as visual \/ comic artist and for running his own publishing house De Press. Just like with his drawings, Andrea De Franco, has been slowly building an expansive body of work collecting tracks, audio snippets and beautifully layered soundscapes that escape any definition of contemporary electronic form. \u003ci\u003eStupidamutaforma\u003c\/i\u003e dates back to 2008-2010, and like its title is a deep journey into synthesis and metamorphosis through psychedelic shapeshifting electronic songs dumbed down (stupida) to encapsulate grime, errors, terrestrial bleeps and pulsating techno. Ten years of work that De Franco does not see as some sort of culmination of efforts but rather as a state of transition from insecurity to coming to terms with his obsession and acknowledging that this music needs to remain in somewhat of a raw form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a highly romantic human thump to Fera’s approach to what once would have been called IDM, a spiritual transcendent quality that permeates his sonic paintings. ‘Stupida’ and ‘Decline Harvest’ are bathed in melancholic abandonment akin to the geographic explorations of Boards Of Canada or the synthetic research of early Mego releases. ‘Yung Leaf’ and ‘Funeral Flute’ rhythms collide into AFX ambient beats and the experimental techno that we grew to love on Subsist. Industrial rivers overflow on ‘Carefucker’, recorded through old Sunn amps with added drum cymbals, while the Kosmische peaks of ‘Circadian Harp’ degrade into Disintegration Loops and sentimental abstraction. Audio design, hybrid synthesis and emotional vulnerability are the backbone of \u003ci\u003eStupidamutaforma \u003c\/i\u003eone of the most immersive and complete realms we have released in the past years. Extension and distortion of natural perception is at its core.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maple Death","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50417511629131,"sku":"2010098","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Stupidamutaforma_87db0816_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726731728"},{"product_id":"psiche-liberata","title":"Psiche Liberata","description":"\u003cp\u003eFera’s trajectory sticks out like a sore thumb, you need to invest time, carefully divided between body and mind, to truly take a deep dive into his audacious output. After the acclaimed \u003ci\u003eStupidamutaforma\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCorpo Senza Carne\u003c\/i\u003e, Fera is back with \u003ci\u003ePsiche Liberata\u003c\/i\u003e, an oblique, imperfect and broken record, in other words, exactly the type of magical voyage you want to be on. The mind, finally liberated. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFera is Andrea De Franco, electronic composer from Southern Italy now residing in Bologna, also known for his work as visual artist\/designer and member of the Undicesimacasa collective. His musical cosmos is profound and imaginative, intergalactic atmospheres that condense fragmented IDM, scintillating textures, distorted synthscapes, crunchy technoid rhythms and swirling abstractions that weave gently, sometimes moody and stark, more often celestial and awe-inspiring. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMixed in Berlin by Steve Scanu \u003ci\u003ePsiche Liberata\u003c\/i\u003e encapsulates Fera’s dense and intricate thought process in contrast with his simple and direct approach to writing and recording that finds its more natural output in his rapturous live sets where a mono signal runs through a few analog pedals transforming instantly into menacing alien grooves and fluid ecstasis. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eike ‘Psiche Liberata’s artwork, hand-drawn by Fera, every detailed miniature leads to a single cell of sound, tracks collide against each other in a psychotic kaleidoscope where every safe space is confronted with subsequent noise, alterations or interruptions. The black terror of ‘Celestial Anacusma’ is followed by the space-jazz banquet of ‘Milk Tears In The Hug Chamber’ doped up cyber Sun Ra extravaganza featuring Laura Agnusdei and Luigi Monteanni (Artetetra) on saxophones and flutes; ‘Silenzio Solare’ sprinkles Mille Plateaux era minimalism all over hallucinations, while ‘Diluvia’ crosses industrial acid with perpetual motion; title track ‘Psiche Liberata’ murmurs mechanically, a downtempo drifter for the wide-eyed 7AM comedown: ‘Simulacrima’ melts Boards Of Canada’s mellow pastoralism with dystopian meta-level dreamland and ‘Riposa’ showcases an overwhelming melancholy executed with elegance in a slo-mo world where the ineffable transcends notions of ambient and becomes a warm embrace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCreated on a Monotribe, MS20 and Volca Sample\/fm, ‘Psiche Liberata’s velvet heaviness was achieved by re-amping many of the instruments through a Leslie Rotary Speaker and a reel-to-reel Telefunken. Fera’s sonic tapestry is in constant flux, underlying themes of love longing and affection run through the record but in a turbulent, volcanic, unleashed fashion, almost on the brink of utter noise or complete silence, reminding us that this is an artist like no other amidst the ever changing electronic scene. These are transmissions from the gutter, where the inevitable meets the unattainable and collapses.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maple Death","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50454924165451,"sku":"2207371","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Psiche_Liberata_30220e28_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727187029"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/fera.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}