{"title":"Alessandro Adriani","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"morphic-dreams","title":"Morphic Dreams","description":"\u003cp\u003eHot on the heels of his preliminary EP on Stroboscopic Artefacts, Embryo, which paved the way to the present album, and two years after the landing of his 2016-released inaugural LP, Montagne Trasparenti, Mannequin helmsman Alessandro Adriani returns with his highly anticipated full-length debut for SA, Morphic Dreams. Throughout eleven cuts painstakingly executed but lacking not an iota of the fresh, spontaneous oomph that made his sound stand out of the crowd of techno producers to have emerged over the past decade, Adriani lays the foundations to a suspended sound imaginarium, governed by its own rules and principles of gravity. Revolving around the notions of sublimation and quest for inner balance, Morphic Dreams is comprised of four distinct sequences, conceived and designed as reflections of four mental states, each of them linked to the four alchemical elements i.e. Water, Earth, Air and Fire here represented by the A, B, C and D-sides. Fluid and enveloping, the A-side bathes the listener in some zero-G uterine vortex, pitching and rolling from the slo-burning exotic sensuality and tribal spell of The Tropical Year to the trunk-bending, arpeggiated fast-track pulse of Storm Trees, through Raindances feverish electro swing. Entering a further abrasive, minerally rich phase, the B-side unleashes Adrianis dark side with optimum conviction. Deeply anchored in earthly materiality, this new evolution stage starts off to the frantic Italo bass of Dissolving Images, rushing headlong into a kaleidoscopic maelstrom of fractured reflections and nasty Giallo-like ambience. The delirious body stretch sequence then rather abruptly swerves onto a calmer flux with Dust\/Mist, a much enticingly hip-swaying collaboration with Simon Crab, ex-member of the seminal 80s UK industrial-experimental band Bourbonese Qualk, before Casting The Runes engulfs us into a tormented world of swollen eeriness and disquieting esoterism. Back to a widescreen showcase of droney distortions, nasty acid swashes and other quirky drum programming, Hors De Combat opens a new chapter, shortly followed by the playful bass intricacies and modular jeu-de-piste of Invisible Seekers, featuring Avian affiliate and longtime friend Shawn OSullivan. A further mind-expanding piece, C-side closer Crow deploys its blackened wings wide and high as a chaos of martial percussions and liquefying synths slivers crash past the red-hot skyline. A fluttering melodic interlude, Things About To Disappear blazes a clean trail for Make Words Split And Crack to flourish, slowly but surely blooming into a nonstop grandiose twelve minute-shy finale geared up with the stirring cacophonic force of a Ligetian symphony and something of an epic-scale Kubrickian soundtrack.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stroboscopic Artefacts","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50394720960843,"sku":"2055993","price":5.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50394721222987,"sku":"2055999","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_5dfa781d_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726446822"},{"product_id":"embryo-2","title":"Embryo","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollowing on from his first incursion on the label in 2017, Enter The Fire, and a recent contribution to the labels thematic VA, Flowers From The Ashes: Contemporary Italian Electronic Music, Mannequin boss Alessandro Adriani returns to Stroboscopic Artefacts with Embryo an immersive four-track micro-odyssey spanning across jagged ambient scopes, unmapped acidic grounds and further leftfield-friendly sonic territories, opening up the path for his forthcoming sophomore LP and first ever for Stroboscopic Artefacts, Morphic Dreams. Taken literally, the embryonic breathing or inner breathing that gives its names to the release is a process in which an alchemy practitioner is plunged into a state of equilibrium and harmony equal to the condition of that of an embryo in his mothers womb. Here, Adriani addresses such matters in his own way, translating this symbolic deployment into a tetralogy of extended droney experiments that aim to find similar balance and reconciliation throughout. Elapsed Emptiness works a dark and unremittingly oppressive vein, slowly sinking its listener into an abstract continuum where light and oxygen have rarefied, whilst sizzling electronics and thunderous riffs roll above heads in cloud formations. Back to groovier spirits, Symmetry breaks the bleak maelstrom-like movement of the opener, dishing out a fiercely corrosive compound of smacking kicks, hissy hi-hats and FX-soaked analogue spurts. Cut and tailored in collaboration with Chicagos very own Beau Wanzer, Inverted Aspects trades the filthy filters and spacious horizontality of its foregoers for a passive-aggressive acid tech swagger thats as sexy a circuits-strewn piece of hardware sensuality as it promises to lay waste on all dancefloors it comes across. Topping off this solid menu on a much hypnotic and resolute note, Aria (New Beat version) is perhaps the track that best encompasses Adrianis alchemical search for perfect body and mind concord, maintaining a precarious balance between dancefloor-optimised music and a certain spiritual freedom to dream and escape.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stroboscopic Artefacts","offers":[{"title":"12\"","offer_id":50394721780043,"sku":"2055997","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_e8ab9969_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726446841"},{"product_id":"rapid-eye-ep","title":"Rapid Eye EP","description":"\u003cp\u003eMannequin Records boss Alessandro Adriani lands on L.I.E.S. with a new four track ep of his melodic and driving signature italo-ebm-electro fusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA master of machine music, Adriani lets them do the talking throughout the ep, with heavy arpeggios, big Juno basslines, and slamming 808s bringing the tracks to a head. Go directly to the symphonic and epic opener \"Ecstatic Feeling\" with its beautiful melodies, dramatic arpeggios and reverb saturated snares, all reminiscent of Yello meets Robotnik with pent up tension waiting to explode. This is an anthem to say the least! The remainder of the ep follows suit laced with traditional EBM and electro stylings being manipulated by the hands of Adriani in his studio. Limited!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LIES","offers":[{"title":"Black | 12\"","offer_id":50507415191883,"sku":"1160245","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/3735aa97-5d39-4913-bbd6-c30cb78ca75f_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727849618"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/alessandro-adriani.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}