Peppe Trotta

Editor

peppetrotta-2@ondarock.it

A compulsive listener, driven by an innate musical curiosity, over the years I've explored a vast sonic landscape that led me from the formative currents of the '90s, through classic rock, jazz, and indie attitude, all the way to the shores of the vast ocean of "other" territories. I collaborate with the webzine Triste© - Indie Sunset In Rome, as well as with Ondarock and The New Noise. Since 2015 I've been gathering on my blog SoWhat impressions of sonic explorations narrated along emotional and sensory paths.

Monographs and interviews

Laura Agnusdei		Int Interview
Marco Malasomma		Int Interview
The Album Leaf	Mono Monograph	Int Interview

Miscellaneous

In-Depth

Modern classical - Rediscovering contemporary Italian music

(Re)discovering ten modern classical gems by ten homegrown composers, released over the past fifteen years

Reviews on OndaRock

0/1 0/1 ambient, concrete, drone	6.5
AA.VV. 111122 ambient, drone-ambient, electronic, experimental	7
AB UNO Les Gens De Mogador ambient drone, dark ambient, field recordings	7
ABUL MOGARD Quiet Pieces ambient drone	7.5
ACTRESS Dummy Corporation electronic	6.5
ADRIANO ZANNI Istantanee d’ascolto dark-ambient, field recordings	7
ADRIANO ZANNI Passato, presente, nessun futuro ambient drone	7.5
ADRIANO ZANNI Racconti d’osservazione ambient drone, field recordings	6.5
ADRIANO ZANNI Songs To The Sirens ambient drone	6.5
ADRIANO ZANNI Soundtrack For A Photobook (These Important Years) ambient drone, field recordings	7
ADRIANO ZANNI & ENRICO CONIGLIO A Corte field recording	7
AIDAN BAKER An Instance Of Rising / Liminoid ambient, neo-classical, post-rock	7
AIDAN BAKER Pithovirii ambient drone	6.5
AIDAN BAKER True Dreaming (To Bend The World) ambient drone, experimental	6.5
AKIRA KOSEMURA & LAWRENCE ENGLISH Selene ambient	5.5
ALESSANDRA NOVAGA The Artistic Image Is Always A Miracle ambient, avant-garde	7.5
ALESSANDRO BOSETTI FasFari avantgarde, experimental	7
ALESSANDRO BOSETTI Portraits de Voix avantgarde, experimental	7
ALESSANDRO SGARITO - ROBERTO MARES Rifugio per mille persone ambient, electroacoustic, post-rock	7
AMERICAN FOOTBALL American Football [LP4] midwest emo	8
AMON TOBIN How Do You Live experimental electronic, IDM	7
AMULETO Becoming Forest electroacoustic	7
ANACLETO VITOLO / HISEKA / GIGI MASIN / FABIO ORSI a sad song for A. ambient, electroacoustic	7.5
ANDREA CAUDURO It’s Always Darkest Before The Dawn experimental	7.5
ANDREA CAUDURO Without People You’re Nothing experimental, instrumental songwriting	7
ANTONIO TONIETTI / ambient, electroacoustic	7
ANTONIO TONIETTI No Longer Human dark-ambient, electroacoustic	7
APPARAT A Hum Of Maybe ambient pop, electronica	7
ATTILIO NOVELLINO Strängar electroacoustic, experimental	8
ATTILIO NOVELLINO The Assault Of Heaven electroacoustic, experimental	7.5
B. FLEISCHMANN Music For Shared Rooms electronic	6.5
BARBARA DE DOMINICIS Body Maps avant-garde, experimental, spoken word	7.5
BELLUJNO Bellujno darkwave, desert-blues, gothic folk	7
BIOSPHERE Inland Delta ambient, electronic	6
BIOSPHERE Shortwave Memories ambient techno, electronic	7
BIOSPHERE The Way Of Time electronic	6.5
BONOBO Distance In Static downtempo, electronic, r&b	6
BOSCO SACRO Gem doom, dreamgaze, gothic	6
BRIANA MARELA You Are A Wave experimental, sound collage	6
BRUNO BAVOTA For Apartments: Songs & Loops electronic, modern classical	6.5
BRUNO DORELLA Paradiso electronic, experimental, soundtrack	7
BRUNO DUPLANT Athanor ambient drone, avant-garde, electroacoustic	6.5
BRUNO DUPLANT Nocturne Incertain ambient drone, electroacoustic	7
BVDUB Days Of Gold dream-ambient	7
BVDUB The Catastrophe Machine dream-ambient	6.5
BVDUB The Catastrophe Machine dream-ambient	6.5
BVDUB Violet Opposition dream-ambient	6.5
BVDUB Wrath & Apathy dream-ambient	7
CADE CADE electroacoustic, experimental, free-improv	6
CAMILLA PISANI Frozen Archimia ambient drone	7
CARMEN VILLAIN Music From The Living Monument ambient, electronic	6
CARMEN VILLAIN Nutrition ambient dub	6.5
CARMEN VILLAIN Only Love From Now On ambient, electronic, new age	7
CHRIS YAN Blasé ambient, electroacoustic, experimental	7.5
CHRISTINE OTT Aran avant-garde, electroacoustic, post-classical	7.5
CHRISTINE OTT Chimères (pour ondes Martenot) avant-garde, contemporary classical	8
CHRISTINE OTT Éclats (Piano Works) modern classical, solo piano	6.5
CHRISTINE OTT Time To Die contemporary classical, electroacoustic	7.5
CLAIRE ROUSAY A Little Death electroacoustic, emo ambient, sound collage	7.5
CLAIRE ROUSAY A Softer Focus experimental, sound art	8
CLAIRE ROUSAY Everything Perfect Is Already Here experimental, sound art	7.5
CLAIRE ROUSAY Sentiment emo ambient, experimental-pop	6.5
CLAIRE ROUSAY The Bloody Lady ambient, sound collage, soundtrack	7.5
CLAIRE ROUSAY - MARTYNA BASTA Hotel Room ambient, electroacoustic	7.5
CLAIRE ROUSAY & GRETCHEN KORSMO Quilted Lament emo ambient, field recording, sound collage	7
CLAUDIO ROCCHETTI Keyhole Mouth electroacoustic, experimental	7
CLEO T Des forêts et des rêves ambient dream, post-classical	6.5
CRANIOCLAST Cold Star: A Noise Inc. post-industrial	6.5
DAMAVAND As Long As You Come To My Garden ambient drone, electroacoustic, field recordings	7.5
DANILO LIGATO Fernweh electroacoustic, minimalism	6.5
DE PONTI / MORETTI Sinclasi electroacoustic, experimental	7
DECA Strategia esoterica dark-ambient	7
DEISON Magnetic Debris vol.1&2 drone, experimental	7
DEISON / JOHN DUNCAN Chimeratorium ambient drone, experimental	7
DEISON & MINGLE Everything Collapse(d) (Piano Versions) ambient, electroacoustic	7
DEMETRIO CECCHITELLI Dwell avant-garde, electroacoustic	7
DEVA OVEL Deva Ovel experimental, musique concrète	7.5
DIRK SERRIES Defiance Of Self ambient	7
DIVUS Divus 3 dark-ambient, electronic, noir-jazz	7
DTHED It Turns Out You Don’t Need All That Stuff You Insisted You Did avant-garde, electronic	7
DTHED Voyage electronic, experimental	7
DUSTER In Dreams slowcore	6.5
ELIO MARTUSCIELLO Akousma-Mother electroacoustic, free improv	7
ELIO MARTUSCIELLO Esercizi per esistere electroacoustic	7
ELLI DE MON Grembo de pria folk, psych, stoner	7
ELUVIUM Virga III ambient, ambient drone	7
ELVIN BRANDHI OWsT experimental	6.5
EMANUELE ERRANTE Yon ambient, electroacoustic	7
ENRICO ASCOLI Mother Of The Deep ambient, electroacoustic	7.5
ENRICO CONIGLIO Lost & Found electroacoustic	7
ENRICO CONIGLIO Stalking The Elusive ambient drone	6.5
ENRICO CONIGLIO The Sirens Of Titan ambient, electroacoustic	7
ERALDO BERNOCCHI / HOSHIKO YAMANE Mujo ambient, electronic, modern classical	7.5
F.S. BLUMM & NILS FRAHM Handling electroacoustic	6.5
FABIO ORSI OT/OT ambient, electronic	6.5
FABIO ORSI – TEZ OT/TO ambient, electronic	7
FABIO ORSI – TEZ TO/OT ambient, electronic	6.5
FABIO PERLETTA + LUIGI TURRA Ma 間 experimental, sound art	7.5
FABIO R. LATTUCA La voce muta ambient, ambient drone, electronic	6.5
FACS Wish Defense post-punk	7
FEDERICO ALBANESE Before And Now Seems Infinite avant-pop, modern classical	6.5
FEDERICO MOSCONI Air Sculptures ambient drone, electroacoustic	7
FEDERICO MOSCONI Dreamers And Tides ambient drone, electroacoustic	6.5
FEDERICO MOSCONI Frammenti ambient, electroacoustic	7.5
FEDERICO MOSCONI Nocturnal ambient drone, electroacoustic	6.5
FELICIA ATKINSON Image Langage ambient, experimental, sound art	7
FELICIA ATKINSON Sans Visage ambient, electroacoustic, soundtrack	7
FELICIA ATKINSON Space As An Instrument ambient, experimental, sound art	7
FÉLICIA ATKINSON / RICHARD CHARTIER Ni envers ni endroit que cette roche brûlante (Pour Georgia O’Keeffe) / Recurrence.Expansion experimental, minimal-ambient, sound art	7.5
FÉLICIA ATKINSON & CHRISTINA VANTZOU Reflections Vol. 3: Water Poems electroacoustic, soundscape, spoken word	7
FELIX DREISER Cover Your Tracks ambient, electronic	6.5
FENNESZ Mosaic ambient drone	7
FENNESZ The Last Days Of May ambient	7.5
FIGURES OF ABSENCE Figures Of Absence electroacoustic, experimental	7
FLOATING POINTS Mere Mortals contemporary, electronic	6.5
FRANCESCO CAVALIERE I-A-K Interplanetary-Abyssal-Kite electronic, experimental	6.5
FRANCESCO GIANNICO Destroyed By Madness ambient, soundscapes	7
FRANCESCO GIANNICO L’immagine di me, lontano ambient, electroacoustic, soundscapes	7
FRANCESCO GIANNICO Misplaced ambient, electroacoustic, soundscapes	7
FRANCESCO GIANNICO The Dead End Road electroacoustic	6.5
FRANCESCO GIANNICO / ANACLETO VITOLO There Is No Longer Any Turning Back electroacoustic	7
FRANCESCO LURGO Sleep Together Folded Like Origami ambient, electronic, post-rock	7
FRANCESCO LURGO The Gentle Whale ambient, electronic, post-rock	6.5
FRANCESCO MARIA NARCISI Voluta electroacoustic, experimental	7
FRANCIS M. GRI - APART - REVGLOW Boke ambient, electroacoustic	7
FRANCIS M. GRI - APART - REVGLOW While ambient	6.5
GALATI Alps ambient	7
GALATI Oneiric ambient	7.5
GEOFF FARINA - KARATE - GLORYTELLERS Make It Fit alt-rock, slowcore	6.5
GFFR Deleuze Deluxe Doll electronic, experimental	7
GIANCARLO TONIUTTI Due scritti imperfetti electroacoustic	7
GIANLUCA BECUZZI American Requiem ambient drone, dark ambient	7
GIANLUCA BECUZZI Black Mantra ambient drone	7
GIANLUCA BECUZZI Hekate ambient drone, dark ambient, electroacoustic	6.5
GIANLUCA BECUZZI The Child And The Abyss dark-ambient, post-industrial	7
GIGI MASIN Plays Venezia ambient, electroacoustic	7
GIUSEPPE IELASI, FABIO PERLETTA, GIULIA BRUNO Untitled (1—8) electroacoustic, experimental	7
GOLD PANDA The Work electro, IDM	7.5
HAMMOCK Nevertheless ambient, modern classical, post-rock	7
HANNO LEICHTMANN & VALERIO TRICOLI Cinnte Le Dia electroacoustic, experimental, improv	7
HEIMITO KÜNST First Light electroacoustic, experimental, lo-fi	7
HEIMITO KÜNST Heimito Künst electroacoustic, experimental, lo-fi	7
HEIMITO KÜNST Post Exoticism electroacoustic, experimental, lo-fi	7
HEIMITO KÜNST Vol.3 electroacoustic, experimental, lo-fi	7
HILDUR GUDNADOTTIR Where To From contemporary classical	7.5
ILUITEQ Fade, Remain ambient	6.5
ILUITEQ Reflections From The Road ambient, electronic	7
ILUITEQ Reflections Revisited ambient, electronic	6
ILUITEQ The Light Inside, The Dark Outside ambient	7
ILUITEQ The Loss Of Wilderness ambient drone	6.5
INVISIBLE COMMA Invisible Comma ambient, electroacoustic, electronic	6.5
IRAN Aemilia ethno-prog, post-punk, post-rock	8
IRAN Persis avantgarde, experimental	7
ISAN Lore ambient, electronic, field recording	6.5
JON HASSELL Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two) fourth world 2.0	8
JONSI First Light ambient, dreamtronica, modern classical	6.5
KAJSA LINDGREN Momentary Harmony ambient, experimental, modern classical	7
KALI MALONE Does Spring Hide Its Joy drone, experimental	8
KELLY MORAN Moves In The Field modern classical, solo piano, post-minimalism	7
KETY FUSCO Bohème electronic, experimental, post-classical	7
KIASMOS II ambient, electronica, techno	7
LAURA AGNUSDEI Flowers Are Blooming In Antarctica ambient, electronic, experimental, jazz	8
LAWRENCE ENGLISH Even The Horizon Knows Its Bounds ambient drone	7
LAY LLAMAS Hidden Eyes In A Ghost Jungle Italian occult psychedelia, kraut-rock, psych	7.5
LAY LLAMAS Time, Islands And Thresholds dub, Italian occult psychedelia, psych	7
LEA BERTUCCI Of Shadow And Substance contemporary classical, electroacoustic, experimental	7.5
LEFTFIELD This Is What We Do electro, house, trance	6.5
LI YILEI Nonage ambient, electronic, experimental	6.5
LIA BOSCH Ever Expanding ambient, lowercase	6.5
LIA BOSCH Polar Code ambient drone, dark ambient	7
LIA KOHL In Transit ambient, electroacoustic, sound art, sound collage	7
LIA KOHL The Ceiling Reposes avant-garde, experimental, sound art	7
LORAINE JAMES Reflection electronic, experimental club, idm	6.5
LOSCIL Ash ambient, ambient drone	7
LOSCIL Lake Fire ambient drone, ambient dub	7.5
LUCA GIUOCO Collettivoinconscio vol.1 ambient, ambient drone, dark ambient, experimental	6.5
LUCA GIUOCO Collettivoinconscio vol.2 dark-ambient, electroacoustic, experimental	7
LUCA GIUOCO Tessitore di cenere electroacoustic	7
LUCA TREVISANI AMAZOOM experimental, sound collage	6
LUCY LIYOU Dog Dreams (개꿈) ambient, experimental, sound art	7
LUCY RAILTON Blue Veil avantgarde, experimental	6.5
LUIGI TURRA Diastima electroacoustic, sound art	7.5
LUIGI TURRA Prisma electroacoustic, sound art	7
LUIGI TURRA Ressac electroacoustic, sound art, spoken word	7
LUIGI TURRA/ELIO MARTUSCIELLO Liminale avant-garde, electroacoustic, sound art	7
LUTON Eden electroacoustic, experimental	8
M.S. MIROSLAW The AAAge Of Warm Asylum free-psych, ritual-ambient	7
MADDALENA COMUNALE MASSARO La religione degli insetti electroacoustic, experimental	7
MAI MAI MAI Karakoz ambient, field recording, hauntology, post-industrial	7.5
MARIA W HORN Panoptikon contemporary classical, drone, experimental	7.5
MARIEL ROBERTS Armament avant-garde, experimental, free improvisation	7
MARIO EVANGELISTA Da capo acoustic guitar, blues, folk, instrumental	7
MARTA ZAPPAROLI Sonata per Eterna experimental, sound art	7
MARTINA BERTONI Electroacoustic Works For Halldorophone ambient, electroacoustic, post-minimalism	7
MARTINA BERTONI Hypnagogia ambient drone, avant-garde, modern classical	7
MARTINA BERTONI Music For Empty Flats ambient drone, avant-garde, modern classical	7.5
MARTYNA BASTA Winged In Collapse ambient, electroacoustic, post classical	7.5
MASSIMO PUPILLO Our Forgotten Ancestors ambient	7
MATMOS Metallic Life Review electronic, experimental, sound collage	7.5
MATMOS Return To Archive electronic, experimental, sound collage	7
MATTEO UGGERI Growth ambient, electronic	7
MAURIZIO ABATE Sacre stanze ambient, folk, psych	8
MICHA ACHER Henry And The Ghosts Songbook chamber music	6.5
MORDECOLI Château Mordécoly ambient, electroacoustic, experimental	7
MORE EAZE & CLAIRE ROUSAY No Floor Americana ambient, emo ambient, sound collage	7.5
MOTORPSYCHO Motorpsycho pop-rock, psych-rock	7
MOTORPSYCHO Neigh!! hard-rock, psychedelic-rock	6
MOTORPSYCHO The Gaia II Space Corps hard-rock, psych-rock	6.5
MÙM History Of Silence folktronica	7
MUNA MUSSIE/MASSIMO CAROZZI Curva Cieca Oblio avant-garde, free-improv	6.5
NETHERWORLD Vanishing Lands ambient drone, dark ambient	7
NICOL BANA Avanziamo la notte con passo preciso e insicuro avant-pop, electronic	6.5
NICOLAS REMONDINO Hìeratico electroacoustic, experimental	7.5
NILS FRAHM Night solo piano	7
NINO GVILIA Nicole/ Overwhelmed By The Unexplained chamber folk, minimalism	7
NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS From Solstice To Equinox dub, electronic	7
NOT ME BUT US Two ambient pop, dream-tronica, electronic	7.5
NOTWIST News From Planet Zombie indie-rock, indietronica	7
OMEGA MAI Omega Mai avant-garde, free-improv	7
OPEN TO THE SEA Beyond The Emotional Flood electroacoustic	7
ORB Prism ambient house, drum'n'bass, dub, electronica, reggae	6.5
ORBITAL 30 Something electronica, IDM, techno	6.5
ORCAS How To Color A Thousand Mistakes dream pop, shoegaze	7.5
OZMOTIC Senzatempo experimental electronica, glitch	7.5
PAN DAIJING Tissues drone, experimental	8
PAOLO BELLIPANNI Radiance dark-ambient, drone	7
PAOLO SPACCAMONTI Border Soundscapes II ambient, avant-garde	8
PAOLO SPACCAMONTI Ifigenia/Oreste ambient, soundtrack	7
PAOLO SPACCAMONTI & DANIELE BRUSASCHETTO Burnout II experimental, industrial, post-rock	7
PATRICIA WOLF See-Through ambient, electronic	7.5
PATRICIA WOLF The Secret Lives Of Birds ambient, electronica, field recordings	7
PAULINE OLIVEROS Altamirage avant-garde, deep listening, experimental	7.5
PIERRE BASTIEN & MICHEL BANABILA Baba Soirée experimental	7
RAMON MORO Offering avant-garde, dark-ambient	7.5
RAMON MORO Saudade ambient jazz, electroacoustic	7
RICCARDO LA FORESTA Drummophone experimental, free improvisation	8
RIVAL CONSOLES Landscape From Memory electronic	7
RIVAL CONSOLES Now Is electronic	7
RIVAL CONSOLES Overflow electronic	7
ROYKSOPP True Electric electropop, electronica	5
SACROBOSCO Dreamlike Places ambient electronic, electronic, IDM	7
SAFFRONKEIRA The Faded Orbit dark-ambient, drone-ambient, electronic	7
SAFFRONKEIRA WITH PAOLO FRESU In Origine: The Field Of Repentance dark-ambient, electro-jazz, future-jazz	7.5
SARAH DAVACHI Banshee / Basse Brevis ambient drone, electroacoustic, field recording	7
SARAH DAVACHI The Head As Form’d In The Crier’s Choir avant-garde, drone, sacred music	7.5
SARAH DAVACHI The Will Of Tongues avantgarde, minimalism, sacred music	7.5
SARRAM Albero dark-ambient, drone music, post-metal	6.5
SATAN IS MY BROTHER Close Your Eyes, See Black ambient, dark-jazz	7.5
SATAN IS MY BROTHER How Far Can You See? ambient, dark-jazz, experimental	7
SAVERIO ROSI & TEZ Rote Um ambient, drone, experimental	7
SEEFEEL Everything Squared ambient dub, ambient techno, electronica	7.5
SEEFEEL Squared Roots ambient dub, electronic	6.5
SERGIO ALBANO How The Air Works dark-ambient, drone-ambient, experimental	7
SHARI DELORIAN Seven Swords darkwave, electronic, post-punk	7
SHEDIR Before The Last Light Is Blown ambient drone	7
SHEDIR Finite Infinity ambient drone	7.5
SHEDIR We Are All Strangers ambient drone	7.5
SILENT CARNIVAL Liminal dark-folk, slowcore	7.5
SILENT CARNIVAL The Limit Of The Sky electroacoustic	6
SNOWDROPS Inner Fires electroacoustic, post-classical	7
SNOWDROPS Singing Stones (Volume 1) ambient, post-classical	7
SPARKLEHORSE Bird Machine alt-rock	7.5
SQUAREPUSHER Dostrotime drill'n'bass	6.5
STEFANO DE PONTI _ LORENZO PELUFFO Punctum avantgarde, experimental	7
STEFANO PILIA Lacinia electronic, experimental, modern classical	7
STELLAN VELOCE Complesso Spettro experimental	7
STEPHEN O'MALLEY Spheres Collapser drone, experimental	6
SUFJAN STEVENS Reflections modern classical	5.5
SUSS Across The Horizon Vol. 1 ambient americana, experimental, folk	7
SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU Life Without Machines modern classical, solo piano	7
SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU Ultra-Minimal contemporary classical, experimental, minimalism	6.5
THE ALBUM LEAF Future Falling ambient pop, dream-tronica	7
THE ALBUM LEAF Rotations ambient, electronic	6
THE CRY The Cry avant-jazz, avantgarde, impro	7.5
THE STAR PILLOW We Were Never One ambient drone	7
THEODORE WILD RIDE Theodore Wild Ride modern classical, post-classical	7
TOMOTSUGU NAKAMURA Literature electroacoustic	7
TRENTEMØLLER Dreamweaver darkwave, dream-pop, electronic	6.5
TRISTAN DA CUNHA Maris Stella ambient, new classical, post-rock	7
VALERIO TRICOLI A Circle Of Grey electroacoustic	7
VIOLETA RICCI E BRUNO BAVOTA Be Human modern classical	7.5
VITTORIO GUINDANI Materia breve electroacoustic, sound art	7
WISP If Not Winter nu-gaze	5.5
ZAKHME Kula ambient, electroacoustic	6.5