Øe - Unseed (2015)

Fabio Perletta is quite a busy sound artist, working simultaneously on his personal sound creations and for his independent label Farmacia901. After several collaborative works, many recent live appearances in the context of contemporary art exhibitions, he is back with a refined and meticulously designed collection of electronic ambient micro-sculptures. Fabio Perletta has never hidden his fancy for aesthetic concepts taken from Japanese philosophy and culture. This new album is immersed in this specific human and sensitive environment where fragile, natural, detached then ephemeral beauties meet the intuitive conception of silence, time and revelation. The minimal glitch-like ambient motifs and droney waving chords we can listen in this Unseed perfectly restitute or translate this Japanese holistic eco-sensitive world made of wonders and instantaneous charms. The whole object is beautifully conceived and elaborated by the label Arboretum, with the complicity of Modern Matters (artists management group). Unseed is said to be the first edition of the Hanami Series entirely dedicated to Japanese traditional philosophy of the nature.

Fluid-like sound textures articulated to micro-noises and sonic interferences depict this floating world we are living in and that the Tao philosophy defines in the concept of Ukiyo. Field recordings taken from nature sounds are sometimes integrated to the sound tapestry like in the moving and absolutely lovely “Freezing light beams.” Fans of the most peaceful ambient works by Christian Fennesz and the electronic reveries of Virlyn, Zen Lu, Giulio Aldinucci, Anne Chris Bakker won’t be disappointed here.

Unseed is a serene, contemplative and warmly inviting minimal ambient release. A musical satori and a must have for fans of complex, sinuous and abstract electronic dreaminess. Perfectly recommended while reading the philosophical essays of master Dogen or closer to us the aesthetical writings of Alan Watts.