Luca Tommasini hails from Italy, and Asylum Connection is his more noisy output. Other projects are A Distant Shore and Shadow Echo Canyon, of which FdW reviewed an earlier release on IDR. This double three is titled “A Decay of a Pandemic Mind”, and it’s precisely that. During the Covid times, all of humanity was looked up and we were not allowed to do anything. In most countries, everybody was restricted in some way to their own home. And that was only 5 years ago. People died around us, and conspiracy theories were blooming simply because people had nothing else to do.
But Luca found things to do. He let out his inner demons and recorded them. However, he didn’t release them back then. He sat on those recordings until he could mentally look at them from a different perspective. And there he started to manipulate, re-manipulate and reorganise his mind, emotions and art. So the result of a lockdown is a shitty feeling, but for artists it’s inspiration. For Luca, it’s an answer to the question ‘what sound do I produce instinctively’, and with contact microphones, objects, found sounds, field recordings, and guitar pedals, the answer is “A Decay of a Pandemic Mind”—four tracks, 32 minutes total, musically somewhere between HNW and harsh noise.
This is something you don’t listen to; this is something you experience. Like we all did five years ago.
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