Pillow Flowing Seasons

[2nd Rec; 2006]

Styles: ambient folktronica, post-rock
Others: Port-Royal, Buffalo Daughter, Weevil, Reverbaphon

Stunningly rich ambient sounds splitting the arbitrarily placed genre classifications between post-rock and electronica continue to flow out of Italy, this time care of famed Giardini Di Mirò keyboardist Luca Di Mira. Adopting the appropriate moniker Pillow, Luca has produced a professional set of glitch-based chill rounded out by his own organic multi-instrumentalism, which includes piano, classical guitar, violin, harmonium, and much more. This breaks pattern slightly for the more glitch-hop material like "In Deep Sea," which is the most eerily beautiful electronic usage of a violin since Venetian Snares' Rossz Csillag Alatt Született. Except for the previously mentioned track, "Tree Shadow," and the album closer, Flowing Seasons is meticulously vocal, yet Pillow's sound favors neither sex, at least not in the way they are recorded here. Patrick Zimmer and the female contributors are all given similar melting-ice treatments, but still equally provide Luca's debut solo LP with that extra touch of human warmth that makes Flowing Seasons a balanced and well-delivered chill release. Keep 'em coming, Italy.

1. Song For Beginning
2. Cut-Out-And-Keep Quarrels
3. In Deep Sea
4. Indecision
5. Mixologists And Waifs
6. Tree Shadow
7. Thick Skin
8. With The Passing Of The Seasons