Irene Bianco
Kronblade
Boomkat Product Review:
The superb, quietly absorbing solo debut of CPH-based Italian percussionist Irene Bianco triggers fluttering chain reactions of hushed, delicate, electro-acoustic nuance for Permanent Draft, the wxmen-led label set up by Valentina Magaletti & Fanny Chiarello.
Via custom set up of idiophonic instruments - metal objets, bells, shakers, vibraphone - knit with wind-up toys, zither strings, and field recordings, the classically-trained Bianco ideally takes Permanent Draft’s brief to heart: “leaving the grandiose apart to pay and bring attention to the sounds, details and anecdotes of everyday life, picking up raw material from the ordinary.” Almost easily mistaken for her prolific label boss Magaletti’s own work, the six parts of ‘Kronblade’ (meaning ‘Petal’ in Danish) are defined by a naturally roving, gently listless feel for exploring negative space and extracting poetry from the quotidian in the fragile, finely balanced navigation of her instruments’ rhythmelodic cadence and shadow play of harmonic overtones.
Wistfully swaying around an intersection of lo-fi improvisation, ambient and lower case free jazz with a chamber classical precision, Bianco surely snags imaginations in extended lines of thought woven tapestry like on the mind. Checking in with the midnight-minded lilt of twinkling polyrhythms and etheric choral pads to ‘Tuesdays Are Our Saturdays’, she takes us to sea in the slosh of ’Sussulti’, and along waking dream planes of ‘Hvid’, one of a trio of standout longer form works that really give her room to stretch out, along with the nervy, spectralist grit of ‘kronblade i’, where an impressive sense of self-restraint sets up the album’s most striking highlight in the final denouement of 9’ piece ‘Op, Ned’, where she lends stately piano flesh to her poised triplets, synced with trickling water sounds and resonant dub chords in a genuinely unexpected way calling to mind Laurel Halo’s ‘Atlas’ and Mica Levi’s subtle concrète acousmagique.
Warmest recommendations.
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Boomkat Product Review:
The superb, quietly absorbing solo debut of CPH-based Italian percussionist Irene Bianco triggers fluttering chain reactions of hushed, delicate, electro-acoustic nuance for Permanent Draft, the wxmen-led label set up by Valentina Magaletti & Fanny Chiarello.
Via custom set up of idiophonic instruments - metal objets, bells, shakers, vibraphone - knit with wind-up toys, zither strings, and field recordings, the classically-trained Bianco ideally takes Permanent Draft’s brief to heart: “leaving the grandiose apart to pay and bring attention to the sounds, details and anecdotes of everyday life, picking up raw material from the ordinary.” Almost easily mistaken for her prolific label boss Magaletti’s own work, the six parts of ‘Kronblade’ (meaning ‘Petal’ in Danish) are defined by a naturally roving, gently listless feel for exploring negative space and extracting poetry from the quotidian in the fragile, finely balanced navigation of her instruments’ rhythmelodic cadence and shadow play of harmonic overtones.
Wistfully swaying around an intersection of lo-fi improvisation, ambient and lower case free jazz with a chamber classical precision, Bianco surely snags imaginations in extended lines of thought woven tapestry like on the mind. Checking in with the midnight-minded lilt of twinkling polyrhythms and etheric choral pads to ‘Tuesdays Are Our Saturdays’, she takes us to sea in the slosh of ’Sussulti’, and along waking dream planes of ‘Hvid’, one of a trio of standout longer form works that really give her room to stretch out, along with the nervy, spectralist grit of ‘kronblade i’, where an impressive sense of self-restraint sets up the album’s most striking highlight in the final denouement of 9’ piece ‘Op, Ned’, where she lends stately piano flesh to her poised triplets, synced with trickling water sounds and resonant dub chords in a genuinely unexpected way calling to mind Laurel Halo’s ‘Atlas’ and Mica Levi’s subtle concrète acousmagique.
Warmest recommendations.
Boomkat Product Review:
The superb, quietly absorbing solo debut of CPH-based Italian percussionist Irene Bianco triggers fluttering chain reactions of hushed, delicate, electro-acoustic nuance for Permanent Draft, the wxmen-led label set up by Valentina Magaletti & Fanny Chiarello.
Via custom set up of idiophonic instruments - metal objets, bells, shakers, vibraphone - knit with wind-up toys, zither strings, and field recordings, the classically-trained Bianco ideally takes Permanent Draft’s brief to heart: “leaving the grandiose apart to pay and bring attention to the sounds, details and anecdotes of everyday life, picking up raw material from the ordinary.” Almost easily mistaken for her prolific label boss Magaletti’s own work, the six parts of ‘Kronblade’ (meaning ‘Petal’ in Danish) are defined by a naturally roving, gently listless feel for exploring negative space and extracting poetry from the quotidian in the fragile, finely balanced navigation of her instruments’ rhythmelodic cadence and shadow play of harmonic overtones.
Wistfully swaying around an intersection of lo-fi improvisation, ambient and lower case free jazz with a chamber classical precision, Bianco surely snags imaginations in extended lines of thought woven tapestry like on the mind. Checking in with the midnight-minded lilt of twinkling polyrhythms and etheric choral pads to ‘Tuesdays Are Our Saturdays’, she takes us to sea in the slosh of ’Sussulti’, and along waking dream planes of ‘Hvid’, one of a trio of standout longer form works that really give her room to stretch out, along with the nervy, spectralist grit of ‘kronblade i’, where an impressive sense of self-restraint sets up the album’s most striking highlight in the final denouement of 9’ piece ‘Op, Ned’, where she lends stately piano flesh to her poised triplets, synced with trickling water sounds and resonant dub chords in a genuinely unexpected way calling to mind Laurel Halo’s ‘Atlas’ and Mica Levi’s subtle concrète acousmagique.
Warmest recommendations.
Boomkat Product Review:
The superb, quietly absorbing solo debut of CPH-based Italian percussionist Irene Bianco triggers fluttering chain reactions of hushed, delicate, electro-acoustic nuance for Permanent Draft, the wxmen-led label set up by Valentina Magaletti & Fanny Chiarello.
Via custom set up of idiophonic instruments - metal objets, bells, shakers, vibraphone - knit with wind-up toys, zither strings, and field recordings, the classically-trained Bianco ideally takes Permanent Draft’s brief to heart: “leaving the grandiose apart to pay and bring attention to the sounds, details and anecdotes of everyday life, picking up raw material from the ordinary.” Almost easily mistaken for her prolific label boss Magaletti’s own work, the six parts of ‘Kronblade’ (meaning ‘Petal’ in Danish) are defined by a naturally roving, gently listless feel for exploring negative space and extracting poetry from the quotidian in the fragile, finely balanced navigation of her instruments’ rhythmelodic cadence and shadow play of harmonic overtones.
Wistfully swaying around an intersection of lo-fi improvisation, ambient and lower case free jazz with a chamber classical precision, Bianco surely snags imaginations in extended lines of thought woven tapestry like on the mind. Checking in with the midnight-minded lilt of twinkling polyrhythms and etheric choral pads to ‘Tuesdays Are Our Saturdays’, she takes us to sea in the slosh of ’Sussulti’, and along waking dream planes of ‘Hvid’, one of a trio of standout longer form works that really give her room to stretch out, along with the nervy, spectralist grit of ‘kronblade i’, where an impressive sense of self-restraint sets up the album’s most striking highlight in the final denouement of 9’ piece ‘Op, Ned’, where she lends stately piano flesh to her poised triplets, synced with trickling water sounds and resonant dub chords in a genuinely unexpected way calling to mind Laurel Halo’s ‘Atlas’ and Mica Levi’s subtle concrète acousmagique.
Warmest recommendations.
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Boomkat Product Review:
The superb, quietly absorbing solo debut of CPH-based Italian percussionist Irene Bianco triggers fluttering chain reactions of hushed, delicate, electro-acoustic nuance for Permanent Draft, the wxmen-led label set up by Valentina Magaletti & Fanny Chiarello.
Via custom set up of idiophonic instruments - metal objets, bells, shakers, vibraphone - knit with wind-up toys, zither strings, and field recordings, the classically-trained Bianco ideally takes Permanent Draft’s brief to heart: “leaving the grandiose apart to pay and bring attention to the sounds, details and anecdotes of everyday life, picking up raw material from the ordinary.” Almost easily mistaken for her prolific label boss Magaletti’s own work, the six parts of ‘Kronblade’ (meaning ‘Petal’ in Danish) are defined by a naturally roving, gently listless feel for exploring negative space and extracting poetry from the quotidian in the fragile, finely balanced navigation of her instruments’ rhythmelodic cadence and shadow play of harmonic overtones.
Wistfully swaying around an intersection of lo-fi improvisation, ambient and lower case free jazz with a chamber classical precision, Bianco surely snags imaginations in extended lines of thought woven tapestry like on the mind. Checking in with the midnight-minded lilt of twinkling polyrhythms and etheric choral pads to ‘Tuesdays Are Our Saturdays’, she takes us to sea in the slosh of ’Sussulti’, and along waking dream planes of ‘Hvid’, one of a trio of standout longer form works that really give her room to stretch out, along with the nervy, spectralist grit of ‘kronblade i’, where an impressive sense of self-restraint sets up the album’s most striking highlight in the final denouement of 9’ piece ‘Op, Ned’, where she lends stately piano flesh to her poised triplets, synced with trickling water sounds and resonant dub chords in a genuinely unexpected way calling to mind Laurel Halo’s ‘Atlas’ and Mica Levi’s subtle concrète acousmagique.
Warmest recommendations.
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