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Rating: For years, I've been listening to music of all kinds and genres and, I must say, up until today, I had quite a few reservations about the so-called electronic and ambient music, often confused with dance music. This was until I stumbled upon this group: the Aldam Projet (it's not a typo, it really is Projet, without the c!).
They have released two albums online on Lulu (http://www.lulu.com/), categorizing one ("Deserti dell'Anima") in the New Age category, and the other ("Tam Tam") more specifically in the electronic and dance category. The latter seems to me to generally follow what is the standard for this type of music, although I admit there are already some new elements in it, highlighted particularly in the creative and "acoustic" spirit, a bit out of the box. But what struck me (I would almost say electrified me!) was the first one, "Deserti dell'anima." It's an album presented both in digital "multimedia" form (that is, downloadable directly from the web) and as an audio CD, complete with cover and everything else. Well now, this album made me realize, without reservations, that I was wrong about the potential of this music. Here we are definitely far (light years away) from the last-minute electronic pop, from the deafening and senseless noises of "industrial," from the psychedelic and crazy "tum tum" club music and from the tingling beat of the false drums of "Tribal" House. Despite being characterized as "Alternative" pop and rock, we are faced with something that has all the traits of "real" music, made to open new horizons, without straying from the tastes of the new generations for a certain type of sound.
In fact, the musical vision offered by this album seems closer (in an evolutionary sense, I mean) to the development of those who were the early pioneers of electronic music, like Oxigene and Kraftwerk, with the addition of melodic lines, sometimes even symphonic, that seem to aim to shift the hegemony of this type of music, from DJs, now the undisputed masters, to musicians, who would like to rightly reclaim it. The musical art of this work lies in pushing the listener on a journey into new and unexplored emotions, or sometimes, instead, old and unjustly forgotten ones. A journey, in short, into the "colors" of the soul. An album more to listen to than to dance to, even if sometimes it also gets you moving! What impressed me most was the correct use of even acoustic instruments and the careful and sparing choice of electronic ones, "building" a sound that marries computer-music with the most innovative wing of the seven notes... I believe I’ll follow the future trends of this group.
Link: "Deserti dell'Anima"
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