Silentes
The name Enrico Coniglio is not new to this scene as well as to me. In the past I had the pleasure of reviewing another CD with him being one of the collaborators. The album "dyanMU" was released on the Irish Psychonavigation Records and for "Sea Cathedrals" Enrico chose to stay closer to home as it was released by fellow countrymen Silentes.
The album's imagery and its music is conceptualized around 'Sea Cathedrals' or the great heritage of the coastal industrial archeology of Porto Marghera. Partial Field recordings, partial guitar loops, bells, vocals and synths - this album gathers sounds from as much different origins as what was brought into the harbor.
Just like on the before mentioned "dyanMU" which was a collaboration with Elisa Marzorati, "Sea Cathedrals" is again a collaborative effort. On the cover and in the books it says Enrico Coniglio feat. M.P. Cecchinato and M. Liverani and within the liner-notes we also find the additional vocals being credited to Manuela Bruschini.
Sadly I couldn't find any more information about the other persons, so the review will focus on Mr. Coniglio himself. And why try to rewrite what is told so perfectly on his website. "Enrico Coniglio is a musician with an interest in the aesthetic aspects of the landscape. ... his music tries to explore the loss of identity of places and the uncertainty of the evolution of the territory."
This feeling of forgotten memories and places that 'once were' very well depicts the atmosphere that is created on this album. Long stretched sounds with slow movements - which sometimes take a bit 'too' long like on the title-track - and at other moments the activity within the sound-spectrum is very high. An example from this can be heard in the gorgeous second track 'Sandbanks'.
"Sea Cathedrals" is a well executed piece of ambient music which will appeal to more then just the usual suspects / target audience.
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