AR Kane
Sixty-Nine

LA RECENSIONE

For once, let's start from the end.

This album represents one of the most original projects of the 80s, one of the most creative moments of a debated and debatable decade, a work that exudes originality, class, and elegance throughout its 40 minutes.
Formed by the multi-instrumentalist Alex Ayuli and the singer Rudi Tambala, AR Kane aimed for abstract music, built around dreamy harmonies, embellished with slow and reverberated chords, embroidered by Tambala's surreal and somnambulistic singing, a beautiful cross between Wyatt and Sting. Rarefied and very delicate atmospheres, soaked in nocturnal reverberations, dotted with silences and pauses that fill these indefinable mental perceptions.

The references and citations to be made are many, from slow-core to psychedelia, from jazz to soul. All mixed perfectly, with a truly sophisticated taste.
The ten tracks that compose the album are delirious frescoes of oblique and unusual visions, dilated and evanescent hallucinations. "Sulljday", "Dizzy", or "The Madonna Is With Child", seem more like mental states than songs, treatises on hypnosis more than music, journeys into the deepest and most meditative trance.

Many things that will come later will owe a debt to this album, perhaps one of the most underrated ever.