Diplodisc/Stella*Nera
Alessandro Monti : Unfolk (I,2006)***°
Rather than working out a biography with someone’s struggles to appear as a musician in society, Alessandro Monti invents the concept of what can be resumed in the new term ‘unfolk’, which inhabits a reinvention of techniques, traditions (compositions,..) with some amount of improvisation on the now/nu. Most tracks are based upon beautiful instrument combinations with mandoline, in a way like Led Zeppelin’s “Gallows Pole” was built. Melodically and in sound the mandoline layer sounds beautiful in combination with acoustic and electric guitars, tabla, tonal keyboards and a few other string instruments. Just one track, “Almanacco del Giorno Prima” is a bit more rhythmical, and “Stereostudio n°1” is based upon a keyboard melodic sound in combination with the other instruments instead of the mandolin. “Fine Dell’Infanzia/Oscura Prefezia” is the only track that uses a traditional medieval dance fragment into the composition. A very enjoyable, soft-hypnotic, mostly acoustic album, with a certain progressive vision.
