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Rating: FFF Fiale is a unique musician, hard to describe: in his predominantly electronic music, various souls intertwine. But let's start from the beginning...
The theme around which the entire album revolves is overpopulation; in the booklet accompanying the album, there's a graph that shows the urban expansion of the city of London over the centuries, and a caption highlights how that dark blot spreading on the map unbelievably resembles an expanding tumor mass. After all, the cover shows a myriad of newborns with the musician's face.
The album opens with the title track, "Kreshete und moltiplykatevj", which continues (or precedes, I don't know the exact chronology of his works) the experiments of the album "Il Richiamo Della Corriera Cosmica". The whole track is based on an electronic riff whose timbre recalls the musette of the old synthesizers of the early '90s. Gradually, other voices overlap, and soon the melody acquires a strongly percussive character, with the voice of our artist, filtered and distorted somehow so much as to lose all its humanity. A flaw, in my opinion, of the album is precisely this: the voice, so manipulated, becomes too confused and gets lost behind the music and struggles to emerge. This also makes the lyrics hard to understand, even though they are of a good level. A music that comes from the future, very "abstract", unreal.
The second track, "Al Sorger Della Notte" begins with strange percussion that I couldn't identify, which creates a sound fabric embroidered with light, equally indefinable tinkling (it sounds like a midi). Other voices (synths and probably synthesized guitars) soon enter, introducing a much darker atmosphere than that of the first track. The melody of the singing is highly original and particularly evocative; the track's pace and rhythm reminded me of bands like Tool, but Fiale has a greater melodic liveliness. The voice recalls tapes listened to with a walkman with low batteries, but the effect, believe me, is not bad at all (apart from the previously mentioned problem). "Blyutzqwer Phantazy" gives an ethnic touch to the album using sounds found in certain Asian folk music but with very strange harmonic progressions, some typical of avant-garde jazz, others similar to those of some Frank Zappa albums (but also of a certain progressive rock). At a certain point, the track seems like a fusion between early Pink Floyd, the Art Ensemble Of Chicago, and Indian folk music. "MA Ke Belle Strysholine" has a very cheerful melody that creates a suggestive contrast with the very bitter socially critical lyrics. However, within the track, there are also abrupt breaks marked by inhuman screams of Fiale, which, along with the wild and crazy rhythmic section, come very close to death (Fiale also played drums in a death or thrash band, I don't remember exactly).
"Helldunkelz" (don't ask me why he insists on blending German with Italian and English!) begins with a very light piano that represents a comfortable pause after the initial experiments and before the rhythmic gallop that serves to introduce the subsequent ones, which unfold into something that quickly transitions from Tchaikovsky-like atmospheres to virtuosic keyboard solos Dream Theater-style supported by an instrumental base that may remind one of Frank Zappa's Zombi Woof. "Persistenti & Replikanti" starts very psychedelically, reminiscent of the atmospheres in "One Of These Days" by Pink Floyd but, as soon as the voice enters, it brings to mind Tool again, but the piece lasts only a few seconds. "Mondorovesciato" starts like Black Sabbath (Disturbing The Priest) but in an electronic version and then becomes something hard to define that, despite being crude and awkward, manages to evoke dark and anguishing atmospheres. In "Tzaromzqwer", one seems to hear the experimental Battiato of "M. elle Le Gladiator". There are another thousand interesting components that, however, I can't pinpoint, and it's a real shame. "I prescelti" is one of the best tracks, reminiscent in the first few seconds of a piece by Prophilax but then evolves into an incredible chaos. The lyrics are some of the most interesting of the entire album, partly echoing the famous "ancient astronaut" theory, but it's all just a pretext to once again attack society. All of this is true only if I interpreted the lyrics correctly, which are very difficult to understand due to the previously mentioned vocal effects. Occasionally, obligati, polyrhythms, slowdowns, accelerations, counter-beats, and things like that help prevent the listener from getting bored.
I might have said a bunch of nonsense given the complexity of the work. For this reason, I'm also providing a link where you can get more information if you're interested:
http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/fiale/
For example, on this site, I saw that my version of the album lacks some tracks. Furthermore, you can listen to some tracks from this and other albums. Enough for now! I don't feel like rechecking what I've written, so if there are any errors of any kind, forgive me!
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