AMULETO - Becoming Forest

A full eight years after “Acre” – an album that marked one of the key points on the map of the Eilean label's catalogue – the duo Amuleto, made up of Francesco Dillon and Riccardo Wanke, resurfaces. Once again it's Mathias Van Eecloo, through the new hundred-stage journey of Laaps, who welcomes them in, this time in an unprecedented form that includes the valuable contribution of Stefano Pilia. A fruitful collaboration that expands the label's sonic vision without distorting it.

Literature, distant cultures and diverse musical heritages remain the source material, just as the intersection of acoustic and synthetic elements remains the substrate that feeds the construction of a tendentially complex sound. The resulting interweavings combine an avant-garde attitude, post-classicism and electronic research, layering harmonic cores with manipulations that destructure their flow. Between biblical citations (“Fumo ogni cosa, vento che ha fame”) and mythological references (“Tlahuixcalpantecuhtli”) emerge jagged constructs of rough frequencies, which dissolve into solemn-toned melodic codas (“Statistical Learning”), pulsing cosmic drifts (“Certe cose al buio”) and classicizing, folklore-leaning scores charged with interference (“Quantum Chromo”).

A kaleidoscope of fascinating solutions incorporating found sounds, ambient echoes and voice, all held together more by a shared approach to charting their own trajectories than by any real conceptual superstructure. A choice that doesn't weaken the outcome of a synergy well worth exploring further, given the premises laid out here.

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11/04/2026