ERRNOIS - The Winter Season

Behind the moniker Errnois hides Marcello Spolverato, a twenty-eight-year-old from Padua in love with fragile melodies, melancholic soundscapes and delicate glitch watercolors.

Active for a couple of years now, after playing bass in an indie-rock band, Marcello has only recently managed to release his first official work, “The Winter Season”, an album dedicated to the winter season yet deeply oriented toward the rebirth of spring. Not free from a certain saccharine quality, and not entirely consistent (the second half, in fact, doesn’t quite measure up to the first), the record nonetheless possesses a considerable dose of sincerity.

Here, then, a tender guitar melody emerges beyond the chaotic glitch horizon, as if the sun, though meeting resistance along its path, still manages to set a secluded meadow vibrating with color. The enchanted minimalism of “Waiting for Spring”, meanwhile, calls to mind a music box abandoned on a doorstep once everyone has gone away.

On a couple of occasions, the artist also tries his hand at singing, but while “Gorlitzer” doesn’t quite hit the mark, the detuned voice on “Dressing For Dinner” feels genuinely right for the shifting play of perspectives the track enacts from start to finish, across IDM mosaics, frequencies drifting back and forth, and sinuous crackles.

What stands out in Errnois’ work is the pursuit of a sound that can immediately become “landscape”, a crisp snapshot of sensations that only truly belong to us once they turn into “nature”. In the hushed vortices of “Panic-Disaster Cycle” and amid the stardust of the sweetest “Our Different Lines” lie the best moments of a record that gradually takes shape as an antidote to the shadowy apparitions of a winter that grips the heart and soul.

The album can be downloaded directly from the 51 Beats website.

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11/02/2010