Deca
Automa Ashes

One of the most influential cross-disciplinary artists on the European music scene - all the more influential as he remains elusive, as befits - marks his new endeavor with a further leap in production quality and a conceptual approach that challenges the perception of life on multiple levels, both as an individual journey and as an "expanded entity." It also offers an astonishing experience in terms of sound and composition, if only to emphasize the authority of the title that critics have bestowed upon him for years: the Sound Alchemist.

"Automa Ashes" is the testimony of a never-satisfied evolution that develops ambient and cosmic contaminations using the most congenial methodologies to an avant-gardist in love with the piano and synthesizers. Thus, the tracks on the album meld chamber atmospheres with caustic blends of advanced electronics, vocal elaborations and urban noises, with an extraordinary overall compactness that simultaneously sparkles with a myriad of insights and details. This is music that is not immediate, not for all tastes, engaging only with a relaxed and continuous listening. It is pointless to attempt to appreciate tracks like "Arcanaut Paradox" or "Taumash Estamau" while washing dishes or working on the computer. There are too many undertones and dreamlike and subliminal hooks. One must also reach the final piece with the mind saturated with all those that precede it because it is a hyperbolic blend that mixes them together simultaneously at exponential speed.

Music for visionaries. Music that manages to be innovative without demolishing centuries of musical culture, where both Romanticism and the cosmic unknown are present.

Deca is Italian and has a large following of enthusiasts in Italy. Abroad, collectors circulate his early vinyl at prohibitive prices. In 2002, he released a cornerstone of electronic discography, that "Simbionte" which synthesized thirty years of evolution in technological sound in thirty minutes and set a new boundary for times to come. However, he seems more interested in producing and experimenting rather than resting on the laurels of such an honored career. "Automa Ashes" is further confirmation of this.