BEWIDER - Dissolve

You cannot talk about BeWider (behind the moniker hides a thoroughly Italian composer, Piernicola Di Muro) without mentioning the experiences between krautrock and soundtracks of pioneer Philip Glass: in this golden homage lies the beauty of an album which, though on paper an EP, feels like a luxury. Forty minutes flowing as smoothly as honey on toast, the allegorical ecstasies of a mature work at the full height of stylistic avant-garde.

It deserves far more than self-production, but the path already laid out on the debut EP “A Place To Be” can be paved with golden and sonorous pavet, echoing the road that led Dorothy and her surreal band through the wonders and ecstasies of Oz.

In this vein, BeWider's music dispenses, across six tracks, all the potential of a sound to be savoured like ambrosia. Synths built to dazzle and astonish: not many years ago, even the best Amedeo Minghi was composing fanciful enchantments for Mediaset's fantasy TV series, an important legacy.

On "Horizon" the music grows unhurriedly, with the mature touch of writing notes in fast-flowing sequences, allegorical sparks of good taste on the stave. "Beneath The Sky" has all the click'n'cut and the flavour of Lali Puna in it, Francesca Amati's (Amycanbe) ambrosial voice is silk on the skin, but only on this track does a certain thoroughbred indie-pop emerge so irresistibly. "Dissolve" is, and remains, a soundtrack of wonders.

In electronic music we are often forced to chase style and meticulous research in vain: BeWider is the Italian answer to those who, within our borders, are content to operate a couple of software packages and get by with little more than a few good loops.

In Piernicola's concept-sound there is the power of a sound to be savoured note by note. Like a wine, from an excellent vintage.

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10/12/2016