Epigonic Rec.
Matthew De Gennaro : Humbled Down (NZ,2004)***°
This last recording, sounds for some reasons somewhat more professionally recorded than before. We hear very atmospheric moods with some minimal layers of colours that fit perfectly on top of each other, like in the old fashioned way of painting, where ground colours gleam through giving the perfect glance and makes certain focused parts livelier. One of these layers is done in moments with some environmental sounds, like birds or crickets.
On “Natura” it shows the peaceful environment completely, with half-experimental sounds that have a very natural feel ; the image it creates is like a mixture of a baby chamber, or a barn as a recording place, with some animals in the surroundings, and with an organ as the reflection of the inner man’s soul, while man listens, and has his inner responses to nature’s pulses.
The organ, and sometimes harmonica and some other droning effects, usually stimulates the mood. The acoustic guitar lead is the most descriptive part. But often also the resonance chamber is melting with the other sounds when it becomes its environment and surrounding, -droning- space. Although the acoustic guitar almost everywhere leads the meandering descriptions, I heard also other instruments, like the accompanying second fingerpicking instrument, the banjo, something like cello or violin, and perhaps a few more instruments.
A very beautiful, very descriptive musical trip with a reflective environmental soundscape for inner peace.
