Fabiano

(This article’s English version was produced with AI-assisted translation)

We already discussed Mammo with his debut album: an excellent work, although minor compared to the dizzying quality of the EPs that preceded it. What arrived like a bolt from the blue was his side project Fabiano, a treasure chest of meditative ambient in the form of sound collage. An internal texture that, step by step, pulls the listener into a hypnotic, fluid and mutable drift. There are seven tracks, but within them just as many themes open up, connected in a delicate continuum.

Mammo/Fabiano is an undisputed talent of ethereal and futuristic soundscape: in "Landmarks", this essence no longer appears through the ascetic beat of works such as "Type Null/Arcology", but through a mostly drumless formula, close to the inner journey of an astronaut lost in cosmic infinity. The few rhythmic hints emerge like derealized frames from a galactic explorer: grooves removed from context and reverberated inside a wider mosaic.
The sonic flow becomes an escapist embryo, suspended between electroacoustic architecture and the soundtrack to an interstellar dream. The only exception is the closing "M.net 103's Impossible Turn", the only ambient techno track; filled with fog and refractions, it seems to awaken the ascetic from his multidimensional dream. The maximalist weave resurfaces: after the rhythmic opening, an evanescent synth enters, together with the awareness of belonging to an eternal horizon.

The Dutch artist’s sound design is truly out of the ordinary. Multiple chords are joined by system glitches, voices from hyperspace, signals from an acousmatic laboratory, somewhere between science fiction for argonauts of the year 3000 and an experiment in kosmische musik. It is the sidereal density of a Steve Roach born in the Andromeda galaxy, intertwined with the emotional sensitivity of a Tim Hecker on Martian soil. Fabiano turns everything into a bio-digital carpet that breathes and pulses, and does not stop doing so even when the record ends. The result is a mature and profound work, highly immersive, like a stellar ritual expanding beyond earthly boundaries.

21/09/2025