April by Pietro Zollo
Published by Projekt Records
https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/april
A new beginning fortifies beneath winter’s muffled silence, resonating in anticipation. Italian sound artist Pietro Zollo captures the elegant, seemingly effortless struggle underlying spring’s beautiful miracle, as a renewed energy prepares to thrive. APRIL is elusive yet filled with awe and expectation, a sweet but determined battle against cold and darkness.
This 3-track, 90-minute album of electronic ambient dronescapes is brilliantly nostalgic and mysterious. The looping long-form compositions plunge into a state of stillness and contemplation, light and dark, loss and hope. It’s hypnotizing, soothing, and engulfing in its awaiting rejuvenation.
The melancholic yet incurably optimistic crescendo of part 1 is counteracted by the gentle spiritual turmoil in part 2, like a fleeting look back as doubt creeps in. Victory and survival are no certainty. Nonetheless, part 3 is triumphant in its powerful, delicate reaffirmation.
Review on Exposé Online by Peter Thelen
https://mas.to/@exposeonline/114212484035164176
