Until this one, all previous releases by Dissipatio for Vital have been reviewed by others. I’ve read a couple and concluded that there are a few mighty fine ones on this label, but also that it is a very taste-dependent label. Meaning that it’s hit or miss depending on your taste of music or style, which interests you. However, this is something I thought of and wrote after listening to the new Zerogroove album multiple times.
Zerogroove is the project of Giuseppe Fantini, and this is his second album. For this album Giuseppe used voice, guitars, bass, synth, tapes and drum machine, and in the promo test it mentions “a retro-futurist musical vision”. So there we have it. Retro futurism is my very favourite style of movie. Movies that play in the past, where the future is already in our past. Take, for example, A Clockwork Orange, from the early 1970s (the book was published a decade earlier), and everything depicted as ‘near future developments’ is now a definite part of our past. A personal highlight is the proud presentation of the micro cassette, which was so small yet held superb quality. I mean …
With this in mind, I’m often eager to hear what the concept brings to a release. And while listening, I get occasional flashes of Alan Vega’s Suicide, but it’s not getting close to what Suicide was about. Maybe the instruments used or the use of effects … But the shock that I felt when hearing Suicide, that’s what I miss. The muffled trumpet and guitar sounds used here make it all ‘mellow’ (for lack of a better word). And then, after eight tracks in 23 minutes, I am left with an unsatisfied hunger for more or something different. It’s not bad at all, but it could have been much more. The best track (included in this week’s mix) is, in my opinion, “Many chances for us”, which best underlines my thoughts.
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