Modern Classical Music Magazine is delighted to present an in-depth look at the EP “Close To“, a delicate and slow motion in the ambient domain, written and composed by the artists Marko Zoric and Michael Schacht (in art Metric System 1981), and published through the Label Siril Records.
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Dystosyum is much more than an other-worldly ambient Album and much more than a metaphorical Novel. From first sight, one can perceive the more significant meanings behind the scenes. Dystosyum is motion towards a meaning: a movement, a unidirectional flow guided by thoughtful decisions and a willingness to share one’s experience. Brugnera voluntarily built Dystosyum as a thoroughly detailed immersion.
After reading the book and listening to the Album, the connection between the two appears evident: each detail is relevant to understanding the connotation and the artist’s vision of the creation, where each feature – may it be a sound or a quote, softly links the afterward with the backward, generating a rather grounded philosophy. Without further introduction, let’s dive into an interview with the artist behind Dystosyum: Fabrizio Brugnera.
There is an invisible bridge connecting Venice to Boston, a sonic thread weaving through oceans, time, and emotions. Atlantic to Adriatic is more than just an album—it is an immersive experience, blending ambient, neoclassical, and field recording into a timeless dialogue between space and memory. Edoardo Gastaldi and Jay Brewer craft a sonic world that transports the listener to distant places, evoking fragments of life suspended between nostalgia and discovery.
Edoardo Gastaldi, born in 1998, is an award-nominated film music composer based in Venice, Italy. His style combines slow piano lines with deep ambient atmospheres. In his creations, the frontier of repetitive post-classical minimalism meets deep compositional ambient layers, leading his arrangements to become a philosophical thread of condensed melancholy and sparse hope. After several years of music studies, which provided him with formal training ranging from classical piano to music theory, in the summer of 2021 Edoardo started publishing his compositions and productions.
Davide Fasiello is an Italian pianist and contemporary composer known for his minimalist style, which intertwines piano harmonies with ambient and cinematic atmospheres. Originally from Oria, Fasiello draws on deep emotions, crafting music that invites listeners to reflect and connect with themselves. As one of his inspirations suggests, “Music is the voice of the soul that cannot be expressed in words,” and his pieces often become inner journeys, needing no dialogue. Currently, Davide is studying Composition Applied to Electronic Music at the Conservatory of Lecce, where he continues to explore new sonic horizons. Over the course of his career, he has participated in various festivals, both as a pianist and as a sound designer for multidisciplinary projects, further enriching his artistic language and expanding his versatility.
Italian multi-instrumentalist and composer Fabrizio Brugnera presents Dystosyum, an ambitious project that unites a musical album with a novel of the same name, creating a unique, immersive, multi-sensory experience. Living in Scotland and leading his own label, Siril Records, Fabrizio has crafted a work that merges sound and storytelling, inviting listeners into a post-apocalyptic universe filled with introspection and melancholy.
Ultima Canticum, EP 1 is the first in a series of EPs that promise to explore new sonic frontiers by blending natural instrumentation, traditional synthesis, and evolutionary digital processes, as described by the artists themselves. Paul Bavister and Tim Blazdell demonstrate mastery in their use of advanced technologies and hybrid techniques, resulting in soundscapes that are organic and fluid while maintaining experimental complexity. The five tracks offer an immersive listening experience, where each piece stands out as a unique journey, yet they all remain interconnected.
1. Your new EP, Behind the Wall, has just been released. Can you tell us what inspired you during the creation of this project?
We had a feeling like the whole world is boiling, like we all feel that something needs to change globally and we have hit a wall as a species. That’s something we have felt for a long time now and it seemed to us like a lot of people feel that way. We are always positive and we try to bring that positivity to people through our music, we believe in a bright future that is expecting us “Behind the Wall”.
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