Alberto Asquini

Contributor

alberto.asquini@ondarock.it

I was born in Pordenone on April 25, 1988. I live in the lower Friuli area [Romans di Varmo], but before that I was based in Bologna, then London, and now Rome. I graduated from the "Jacopo Stellini" classical high school in Udine. In 2007 I moved to Bologna, where I studied Sociology, then to Rome, where I'm currently studying Multimedia Publishing. My dream is to become a journalist. In 2005 I contributed sporadically to Indie-Zone.it, before joining OndaRock.it as a regular contributor starting in March 2006, where I split my time between monographs, interviews, reviews and live reports. Since November 2009 I've been a regular contributor to the monthly magazine Rockerilla. I'm head of the press office for OndaRock, and I'm now also a blogger for 'Il Fatto Quotidiano', as well as a jobbing writer for Zero, RebelRebel and Vice. My first encounter with music: the video for Radiohead's 'There There', aired on MTV in the summer of 2003. From then on it was a rapid succession of loves: Air, Sigur Ros, Notwist, Daft Punk, Royksopp. Over time I devoted myself to ambient, to electronic music in its broadest sense, to drone and to post-rock. I hope to keep broadening my horizons even further.

Monographs and interviews

Alva Noto	Mono Monograph
Amari		Int Interview
Antenne	Mono Monograph
Antony and the Johnsons	Mono Monograph	Int Interview
Arcade Fire	Mono Monograph
Disco Drive	Mono Monograph	Int Interview
Fuck Buttons	Mono Monograph
Gas	Mono Monograph
Interpol	Mono Monograph
Luche		Int Interview
M83	Mono Monograph
Mono	Mono Monograph	Int Interview
Monolake		Int Interview
Pan American	Mono Monograph
Pan Sonic	Mono Monograph
Port-Royal	Mono Monograph	Int Interview
Silver Mt. Zion	Mono Monograph
Telefon Tel Aviv	Mono Monograph
Thievery Corporation	Mono Monograph
Vladislav Delay	Mono Monograph	Int Interview
White Birch	Mono Monograph
Windy and Carl	Mono Monograph

Miscellaneous

In-Depth

Lucia Ronchetti - Biennale Musica in Venice, here we go!

We interview the composer and artistic director of the upcoming Biennale Musica in Venice, which will host Brian Eno, Autechre, Kali Malone and many others

In-Depth

Ariano Folk Festival - Ariano Folk Festival: a heritage worth preserving

We had a chat with the organizers of this now-historic festival in Campania

Pietro Fuccio - Interview with Pietro Fuccio (Dna Concerti)

In-Depth

Pietro Fuccio - Interview with Pietro Fuccio (Dna Concerts)

"Only festivals will change the way music is thought about in Italy." So says Pietro Fuccio, director of Dna Concerts, one of Italy's leading concert agencies

In-Depth

Bologna kicks off its fifth edition, between music and digital arts

The fifth edition of roBOt Festival kicks off on 10 October, between digital arts and music

Reviews on OndaRock

33ORE Quando vieni pop	6
65DAYSOFSTATIC The Destruction Of Small Ideas post-rock	7
AGF / DELAY Symptoms abstract pop, electronic	7.5
ALL MY FAITH LOST The Hours gothic	7
ALVA NOTO For 2 ambient	6.5
ALVA NOTO Univrs electronic	8
ALVA NOTO Xerrox Vol. 2 ambient	7.5
AMARI Poweri alt-pop	5
AMNESIA SCANNER AS hi-def electronic, post-club music	8.5
ANDREW PEKLER Cue electronic	4
ANGEL Hedonism avant-garde	4.5
ANGEL Kalmukia avant-garde, drone	7.5
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Centipede Hz psych-pop	7.5
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Fall Be Kind psych-pop	7
ARANDEL In D avant-garde, techno	7.5
ARCADE FIRE The Suburbs pop	6
ARNOUX Cascades indietronica	5
ATOMS FOR PEACE Amok electro-pop, IDM	4.5
AUTECHRE Move Of Ten electronic	7
AUTECHRE Oversteps electronic	6
BEN FROST A U R O R A doomtronica, trance-drone	6
BEN FROST By The Throat ambient music, avant-garde	7.5
BIOSPHERE N-Plants ambient	5
BLANCK MASS Blanck Mass dream-ambient	7
BOARDS OF CANADA Tomorrow’s Harvest electronic	7.5
BVDUB To Live dream-ambient	8
BVDUB Tribes At The Temple Of Silence dream-ambient	5.5
BVDUB We Were The Sun dream-ambient	7.5
BYETONE Symeta electronic	7.5
CARIBOU Andorra psych-pop	7.5
CLARO INTELECTO Reform Club techno	8
COLD CAVE Cherish The Light Years synth-pop	7.5
COLD CAVE Love Comes Close synth-pop, wave	8
DAFT PUNK Random Access Memories daft punk	9
ELECTRIC PRESIDENT Sleep Well alt-pop, indietronica	6.5
EMERALDS Does It Look Like I’m Here? kosmische, synth-drone	8
EMERALDS Just To Feel Anything synth-ambient	7.5
FENN O' BERG In Stereo drone-ambient, glitch	8
FENNESZ Seven Stars ambient, electro-acoustic	7
FENNESZ / DANIELL / BUCK Knoxville impro-drone, post-rock	8
FEU THERESE Ça Va Cogner electronic, funk, synth-pop	7.5
FEVER RAY Fever Ray dark synth-pop	7.5
FRANCESCO TRISTANO Idiosynkrasia piano, techno	5
FRANCO BATTIATO Fleurs 2 pop	5
FRANCO BATTIATO Il Vuoto songwriter	6.5
FUCK BUTTONS Slow Focus drone-trance, electronica	8
FUCK BUTTONS Tarot Sport tribal techno	7.5
GANG GANG DANCE Eye Contact avant-pop	7.5
GAS Narkopop ambient techno	7.5
GIANLUCA BECUZZI/ FABIO ORSI Muddy Speaking Ghosts Through My Machines avant-folk, drone	7.5
GOLDFRAPP Head First dance-pop	5.5
GOLDFRAPP Seventh Tree dream-pop	7
GROUPER A I A: Dream Loss / A I A: Alien Observer ambient folk, gothic drone	8
GROUPER The Man Who Died In His Boat ambient drone, drone-folk	5.5
GROWING Pumps psych-electro	7
HAMMOCK Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow ambient	7.5
HOLLY HERNDON Platform avant-pop, hd-abstract	7.5
HRSTA Ghosts Will Come And Kiss Our Eyes post-rock	7.5
IL PAESE È REALE Il paese è reale pop-rock	5
INTERPOL Interpol dark-wave	5.5
INTERPOL Our Love To Admire new wave	6.5
JASMINE GUFFOND Degradation Loops ambient, digital noise, field recordings	8
JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA Love Is A Stream drone-gaze	7.5
KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT Ullakkopalo weird folk	6.5
KHONNOR Softbo dreamy, electro-pop	7
KUEDO Severant dub electronica	7.5
LARSEN Musm II ambient, post-rock	7
LAUREL HALO Quarantine electro-songwriting	4.5
LIGHTNING DUST Lightning Dust Psych-folk	5.5
LO STATO SOCIALE Turisti della democrazia pop	7.5
LO STATO SOCIALE Welfare Pop electro-pop	7
LOTUS PLAZA The Floodlight Collective psych-pop	7
LUOMO Plus house	7
M83 Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming dream-rock	4.5
M83 Saturdays = Youth pop, shoegaze	5.5
MARK MCGUIRE Get Lost new age, psychedelia-kosmische	7.5
MARK MCGUIRE Tidings / Amethyst Waves psych-kosmische	7
MARTINA TOPLEY-BIRD The Blue God noir-pop, trip-hop	7.5
MASSIVE ATTACK Heligoland trip-hop	7
MATMOS Ultimate Care II avant-electronica	7
MATMOS & SO PERCUSSION Treasure State electronic	7
MAY NAM Anacol Jut avant-pop, psych-ambient	7
MIKA VAINIO Life (…It Eats You Up) harsh-noise-techno	7
MOBY Wait For Me electronic	6.5
MONO Hymn To The Immortal Wind chamber-rock, post-rock	7
MORITZ VON OSWALD TRIO Horizontal Structures dub techno, future-tronica	7.5
MY CAT IS AN ALIEN Leave Me In The Black No-Thing avant-garde	7.5
NO-MAN Schoolyard Ghosts dream-pop, post-rock	7.5
NON VOGLIO CHE CLARA Dei Cani pop	7.5
OLVIS Bravado ambient pop	6.5
ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER Garden Of Delete rock'n'roll	8
ORCAS Orcas ambient pop	7.5
OUR SLEEPLESS FOREST Our Sleepless Forest ambient, electronic	7.5
PAN SONIC Gravitoni minimal techno, noise	8
PARENTHETICAL GIRLS Entanglements chamber pop	8
PATRICK WOLF The Bachelor folk, orchestral pop	9
PHILIP JECK An Ark For The Listener dark-ambient, drone	7.5
POLAR INERTIA Kinematic Optics Ep ambient-trance, dark-techno	8
PORN SWORD TOBACCO New Exclusive Olympic Heights ambient-electro	7
PORT-ROYAL Where Are You Now dance-gaze, electronic pop	5
PVT Church With No Magic avant-pop, neopsych-electro	7.5
RADIOHEAD The King Of Limbs avant-pop-rock	7
RICHARD YOUNGS Amplyfing Host rural folk	5
ROYKSOPP Senior ambient pop	4.5
SANDWELL DISTRICT Fabric 69 techno	7.5
SCUBA Personality tech-house	7.5
SEEFEEL Seefeel abstract, electronica	8
SEVEN MILE JOURNEY The Metamorphosis Project post-rock	6.5
SIGUR RÒS Kveikur dream-rock, post-rock	7
SILENT SERVANT CLR Podcast #155 techno	9
SILVER MT.ZION MEMORIAL ORCHESTRA 13 Blues For Thirteen Moons post-rock	7.5
STAFRAENN HAKON Gummi dream-pop	6
STROKES Angles pop-rock	5.5
SVARTE GREINER Kappe dark-ambient	6.5
SVEN SCHIENHAMMER Altostratus Translucidus ambient, dub techno	7
TCF NLeZ7tnzzj… digital-ambient, trance	8.5
TEEN DAZE Four More Years hypnagogic dream-pop	7.5
TELEFON TEL AVIV Immolate Yourself electronic	7
THE SAINT FOUR The Saint Four Ep folk-rock	6
THE SUPER EGOS Embracing December modern classical, post-rock	7
THEE SILVER MT.ZION Kollaps Tradixionales post-rock	7
THIEVERY CORPORATION Radio Retaliation downtempo, world music	7
TIM HECKER Virgins ambient drone, modern classical	8
TORI AMOS American Doll Posse songwriter	4
TR/ST Trst dark-synth, synth-pop	7.5
TROUM Eald-Ge-Stréon/ Abhijñâ dark-ambient, drone	7.5
TROUM Mare Idiophonika dark-ambient, drone	7
TUPOLEV Memory Of Björn Bolssen post-rock	6
ULRICH SCHNAUSS Goodbye dream-pop	7
VERDENA Wow pop-rock	7.5
VLADISLAV DELAY Kuopio electronic	9
VLADISLAV DELAY Rakka digital-noise, electronic, harsh-ambient	8
VLADISLAV DELAY Vantaa ambient dub, electronic	8
VLADISLAV DELAY Visa electronic	8
VLADISLAV DELAY QUARTET Debut impro	7
WALLS Walls abstract-pop, hypna-ambient	6.5
WASHED OUT Life Of Leisure Ep dream-synth, hypnagogic pop	8
WASHED OUT Within And Without dream-pop, electro-pop	9
WHITEST BOY ALIVE Rules alt-pop	6
WILLIAM BASINSKI Cascade ambient-tape, loop	8
WINDY & CARL Songs For The Broken Hearted drone-rock, space rock	7.5
WINDY & CARL We Will Always Be ambient-acoustic, dream-drone	7
XIU XIU Dear God, I Hate Myself art-pop-rock	7
XXL Spicchiology? noise-pop	7.5
YELLOW SWANS Going Places drone-ambient, noise	8
YOUAREHERE Propaganda dream-electronic	6.5
YUPPIE FLU Fragile Forest alt-pop	6
ZERO 7 Yeah Ghost pop	3