FABIANO - Landmarks

Mammo/Fabiano is an undisputed talent of ethereal, futuristic soundscape: on "Landmarks" this essence no longer manifests itself in the ascetic beat of works like "Type Null/Arcology", but in a mostly drumless formula closer to the inner journey of an astronaut lost in cosmic infinity. The few rhythmic hints emerge like derealized frames seen by a galactic explorer: decontextualized grooves, reverberated into a broader mosaic.

The sonic flow becomes an escapist embryo, suspended between electroacoustic architecture and the soundtrack of an interstellar dream. The sole exception is the closing "M.net 103's Impossible Turn", the only ambient techno track; thick with fog and refractions, it seems to wake the ascetic from his multidimensional dream. The maximalist weave resurfaces: after the rhythmic start comes the evanescent synth, and the awareness of belonging to an eternal horizon.

The Dutch artist's attention to sound is out of the ordinary. The many chords are flanked by system glitches, hyperspace voices, acousmatic laboratory signals, somewhere between science fiction for argonauts of the year 3000 and a kosmische muzik experiment. It's the sidereal density of a Steve Roach born in the Andromeda galaxy, interwoven with the emotional sensitivity of a Tim Hecker on Martian soil. Fabiano turns it all into a bio-digital carpet that breathes and pulses, and never stops doing so even once the record is over. The result is a mature, deep and highly immersive work, like a stellar ritual expanding beyond the boundaries of Earth.