MACELLERIA MOBILE DI MEZZANOTTE - Noir Jazz Femdom

Macelleria Mobile Di Mezzanotte return with a new album set for release on the eve of the project's twentieth anniversary. "Noir Jazz Femdom" is out on Subsound Records and is a triumph of doom ambient and noir jazz, forever steeped in post-industrial dross. Between love, death and smoky bars where one drowns the wounds of the soul, the Rome-based band made up of Adriano Vincenti (vocals, drones), Lorenzo Macinanti (synth, drones, drum machine), Riccardo Chiaretti (synth, drone) and Pierluigi Ferro (sax) stage a pitch-black work that carries on the dark ambient/drone trail of the equally fine and wintry "Hiver Noir", released in 2017.

The six tracks making up the record are a kind of tribute to the history of the project born in Vincenti's mind. One (severed) ear is ideally turned back to the band's beginnings in the most caustic strain of power electronics, to that seminal "Profilo ottimale delle ferite", released back in 2002 and evoked here even in the cover art. A blood-red thread seems to tie past and present together, preserving a clear vision and an original, uncompromising approach, as with every MMM release.

This is a well-structured album that implodes into alluring atmospheres that are at once ethereal, leaden and funereal. Here too, as in their recent releases, the noise side is left in the background in favor of sinister melodies and jazz-tinged drifts that evoke long-lost times, amid cheap booze and pale disillusionment.

Special guests on this new release are Paolo Bandera of Sigillum S, the historic Italian industrial project active since 1985, and Fabrizio Giannese of Aborym, the essential industrial/black metal band from Taranto. The former contributes to the black swirl of "Devotion", a track that wouldn't look out of place among Cold Meat Industry's output in the Nineties, while the latter lends a hand on "Neon Lights Say You Will Die Tonight", a subtly evocative piece steeped in a deathly, ebony beauty.

The excellent title track gives ample room to Ferro's sax and builds an anxious, surreal climax, an ideal soundtrack for a hypothetical David Lynch film. After all, if there's an Italian band worthy of treading the stage of the Roadhouse from Twin Peaks, it's surely MMM. The adjective "Lynchian", often overused, truly earns its keep here.

"Noir Jazz Femdom" is a great comeback for one of the darkest forces in Italian music, a fitting crowning of twenty years of blood-red stages.

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06/12/2019