Blurred Boundaries

Midira Records (DE)

Alessio Dutto comes from Italy. He lives in a small place in the north named Cuneo. His debut album Blurred Boundaries is an electronic drone ambient work, focusing on the concept of borders: geographical, cultural, real and imaginary. The sound itself is somewhere between harmony and noise, drone and rhythm. The aim is to stay on the borderline without going too far away from it. This trivially reflects where the recording has been made: near the border that divides Italy and France, between plains and mountains, not far from the sea.

Dutto combines elements without overblending them, so the sounds merge without overwhelming each other. You hear drones, you hear micro rhythms, you hear noise and you can hear and feel the noisy parts of “Blurred Boundaries”. A beautiful album that not just combines musical styles, but also combines feelings and emotions. You can clam down, but you can also devote yourself into the loud and angry sounding parts. It´s a nice and surprising rendition.