review
Signals
of Nrec
Enrico Tiberi, alias Nrec, is becoming a respected name on the electronic Italian scene:
with Daniele Strappato (Design) on his side,
Nrec publish Signals, a new album featuring
Clod of Iori’s Eyes, Anacleto Vitolo (Av-k,
K.Lone, Manyfeetunder), Kendra Black and
many others. The opening track is Dust, soft
but noisy in the background, with a soul touch given by the voice of Tiberi. Eyedressed,
with the peculiar voice of Clod of Iori’s Eyes,
follows roads and paths more complex. The
attitude of Videodrome is more aggressive,
here introduced by female voice but then
with the rest of the album. It’s mine, with
Kendra Black, takes a direction between the
Eighties of electropop, some kind of dance
music and some synth pop, and the Nineties
of drum’n’bass. Emina-Utica comes back to
Italian language, with the distorted and filtered vocals of Strappato, that comes from very
far, to make room for doses of electronic soft
but very present. Then there is Dig Deeper,
which was also present in Spaghettitronica ep,
early in 2015: but here the situation is completely different, because the song is changed
from the foundation, thanks to the skill of
Clod who sings, and also for structure, turned into a path essential piano-voice (which
may suggest the two versions, for comparison, of My Ever Changing Mood of the Style
Council, nearly a thousand years ago). Lp
closes again on very soft tones: the title track
Signals closes the circle opened by Dust in
the beginning, moving up in moderate tones
and non-threatening, even cozy darkness.
The record sound in all respects as a mature
record and significant, completely oblivious
of the differences between genres (electronic,
pop, sometimes rock, noise, industrial) Tiberi, with its many contributors, ensures a very
high level of quality during an operation of
international flavor.
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“SIgnals”
carried on from that of Strappato, creating a
design with stronger colors than in the rest
of the album. We return to the whispers with
Still, with Anacleto Vitolo, another walk in
the areas of electronics soft and enveloping.
With I do not know where I’m at, the voice
of Strappato brings in territories of electronic
wave/dark wave, and even in circumstances
not far removed from those of Depeche Mode
in second part of their career. Fino in fondo
has instead an industrial opening, that leaves
room for a clean beat and for distorted vocals,
sung in Italian but without breaks and shocks
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