From Parma, Italy Balestrazzi is described as a "post-musician" who abandoned formal musical education in 1977 at the tender age of 15 .
He is a founder member of an Italian cult band Tomografia Assiale Computerizzata (T.A.C), works in theatre, cinema and television and has collaborated with a long list of artists working on the fringes of experimental electronica.
To create his dark ambient-noise pieces he uses laptop plus self built and modified instruments
This album feature three extended tracks with a running time of just under an hour.
These are:
Under Pressure (26.55) an eerie slab of abstract noise which conjures up the bleak surreal atmosphere of David Lynch or Andrei Tarkovsky movies.
Persistence of Memory (14.42) a chilling soundtrack to the revenge of the machines; full of latent terror, this is more aggressive hard-edged metallic sound. One part, for example, sounds disconcertingly like a dentist's drill.
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The Sky Is Full Of Kites (14.38) a less confrontational but still very intense drone orientated piece.
The album original artwork by Daniele Serra depicting a kind of post-apocalyptic industrial wasteland which is exactly the kind of images these dark sounds bring to mind.
Cool in a strikingly bleak kind of way.
Link to Simon Balestrazzi's Neurohabitat label
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