Gianluca Becuzzi e Fabio Orsi
Muddy Speaking Ghosts Through My Machines/The Stones Know Everything

It is the contrasts that dominate the first collaborative work between Gianluca Becuzzi (Limbo and Kinetix) and Fabio Orsi. Not so much because the work of the two musicians leads to the combination of keyboards and computers on one side and guitar on the other, but for how the sound pairings, overlapping textures, samples of old (century-old) blues plots are grafted into the context and for how the chants and rain wash away any residue of modernity in the face of an album that nonetheless lives in the contemporary age.

"Muddy Speaking Ghosts Through My Machines" is exploratory/rural post rock born in the electronic era and is stripped-down ambient folk (almost in a micro wave perspective). But above all, it is an album that manages to convey a deep sense of tranquility and to configure itself as a perfect example of traditional storytelling applied to a sound that exists here and now in this form, but which could have been created in the past. Practically simultaneously, Becuzzi and Orsi return with another work, a double album, "The Stones Know Everything", which collects eight tracks of drone/ambient and electro-acoustic exploration with twilight/dark hues (though always reassuring) and with a sense of traveling between the sounds and shadows that characterize it. But with less inspiration and also with more modest and predictable results compared to the previous work.

In fact, the 3/5 overall rating is given by the average between 4/5 for the first one and 2/5 for the second one.