When visiting Pompeii, the interesting part about the site is not imagining its former glory, but looking at it as a ruin. The ruin itself is beautiful, you don’t need a gothic arch or a painted ceiling, the ash-covered fragment is more perfect than the cathedral ever could be.
Morkebla (Turin’s Alberto Rosso) takes us on a guided tour through the ruins of a beat — an early glimpse at the ruins of electronic music itself. And what a ruin it is. Whatever cement had been holding it together as a dance number has long since eroded, the components rolling around in the wind at your feet. The remaining parts exist as weathered fragments that appear and disappear without warning, like stray cats too skittish to let you get within arm’s reach.
Morkebla’s tendency to create a world for the sounds to move around in is really interesting here, much more so I think than following an obligatory 4/4 route. Whether these ruins are from an ancient past or a prophecy of our own post-industrial future (present), you’ll have to listen for yourself.
Sample “Carcosa’s Dreamscape” from his forthcoming split with Tihkal on London’s Indole Records streaming below:
• Morkebla: http://morkebla.com
• http://indolerecords.bandcamp.com
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