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Massimo Discepoli: Last year, the next day

Read "Last year, the next day" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara
July 16, 2021

While most good drummers know how to use texture and subtlety (or at least should), you won't find many who take the idea quite as far as Massimo Discepoli. While his rhythm parts have a recognizable and compelling pulse somewhere, that usually isn't the half of it. The point is the entire soundscape. His recordings are craftily packed with sonic detail, however busy or airy they happen to be. The last time Discepoli appeared on record with The ...

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Massimo Discepoli: The Right Place on the Wrong Map

Read "The Right Place on the Wrong Map" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara
January 12, 2019

It seems Massimo Discepoli's right place is in territory not just unexpected, but off the usual map entirely. He's based in Italy, though the music doesn't feel rooted in any earthly setting; he's worked primarily as a drummer, but The Right Place on the Wrong Map is a swirling soundworld with the most understated of percussive touches. The affair offers an appealingly hazy daydream for anyone similarly happy to let go of obvious expectations. Starting with electronic ambience ...

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Nheap: Clouds Under the Table

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 3, 2012

Clouds Under the Table è il nuovo lavoro firmato da Nheap, moniker dietro al quale troviamo la figura di Massimo Discepoli, batterista - e in questo episodio multi-strumentista - attivo su più fronti nell'ambito della musica ambient, etichetta stilistica che utilizziamo di comodo per inglobare un vasto insieme che va dal jazz alla musica d'avanguardia, passando attraverso lo snodo cruciale dei suoni elettronici. Otto brani in scaletta caratterizzati da lunghe introduzioni, da dove nascono piani sonori che si sovrappongono con ...

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Nheap: Clouds Under The Table

Read "Clouds Under The Table" reviewed by Lawrence Peryer

by Lawrence Peryer
December 29, 2011

Nheap is the nom de guerre of Italian drummer/composer Massimo Discepoli. The projects he puts out as Nheap are ethereal, mostly mellow electronic excursions accompanied by his own live acoustic drum work. Clouds Under The Table marks his third collection as Nheap. “Ambient" might begin to describe this music, but the presence of Discepoli's relatively straightforward drumming gives the compositions more of a rootedness and energy than that to which most typical electronic ambient music lays claim. ...