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Dickson & Familiar: All the Light of Our Sphere

Una musica asettica, sufficientemente plastificata, scarsamente comunicativa, salvata solo parzialmente dal girovagare imperterrito del clarinetto di Glenn Dickson, è quanto ci offre questo album in duo fra il succitato e Bob Familiar, il primo proveniente dal klezmer, il secondo decisamente più incline a un rock evidentemente depurato di ogni eccesso o turgore.

L'incedere è largo, quieto, incruento, ma anche piuttosto sonnolento, in quel suo deambulare sempre attorno a situazioni e temperature decisamente univoche, quindi largamente monocordi, oltre che già in ogni loro singolo anfratto ben poco avvincenti, convincenti, coinvolgenti (magari avvolgenti, questo sì, ma un po' come un magma informe, melmoso e scivoloso, che non sembra proprio offrire troppi motivi di attrazione).

Un album, quindi, destinato a chi ama farsi avvolgere da una musica che non ne ostacoli in alcun modo ogni possibile afflato, ad essa connesso ma anche estraneo. Non appartenendo a questa schiera, non possiamo che dichiararci ben poco convinti della bontà del lavoro, pur riconoscendone la logica e l'assoluta coerenza intestine.

Avanti un altro.

Track Listing

When Fortune Laid the Trojans Low; Words Set Free from Doubt; Just One Inch in a Hundred Years; It Haunts Me Still; Sweet Seed from Bitter Fruit; Pretending She Was Someone Else; All the Light of Our Sphere; When the Mist Thins; And Even Yours Is Mine.

Personnel

Glenn Dickson
clarinet
Bob Familiar
electronics
Additional Instrumentation

Glenn Dickson: Boss DD20 and Zoom G1X; Bob Familiar: Rhodes MK8-FX, Expressive-E Osmose, Singular Sound Aeros Loop Studio, Soma Laboratories Cosmos Drifting Memory Station, Chase Bliss CXM 1978.

Album information

Title: All the Light of Our Sphere | Year Released: 2025 | Record Label: Sounds Familiar


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