Gianluca Becuzzi
We Can Be Everywhere [2014​/​2023]

An extended version of one of the most representative albums by the Italian experimental musician Gianluca Becuzzi, We Can Be Everywhere” (originally released in 2014), is being reissued, coming out as a double CD for the occasion. The cover also changes: the one depicting an animal skull is replaced by one featuring a skeletal hand in the foreground which reminds me a lot of the first mythical and mythological album by Faust, the legendary krautrock group. The first CD contains the original version of the album, characterized by very dark and obscure settings. In that work, Becuzzi surrounded himself with talented collaborators from the Italian electronic and noise scene such as Deison, Retina.it, and Svart1. The chemistry between these musicians led to remarkable results: the sounds were characterized by a very dark-ambient that brought to mind the more experimental Lustmord and Cranioclast, but also, at times, the German kosmische. Overall, it was a perfect manifesto of the so-called isolationism. The second CD, on the other hand, comprises an entirely new work by Becuzzi (composed of 4 tracks) which reveals the evolution of this musician. For those who have followed his recent works, we are in the realm of albums like DeepR and Axis Mundi where the musician from Livorno has become a sort of shaman, seeking, through a sound based on distorted guitars, concrete noises, and electronic programming, almost a sacred dimension. In a dark period like the present, with much frustration due to the events of recent years marked by pandemics and wars, the attempt to bring out those shards of the sacred that still exist in our everyday life is undoubtedly commendable. To put it in the words of the historian of religions Mircea Eliade, it is about discovering “The disguise of the sacred in the profane". Available on Bandcamp: https://gianlucabecuzzi.bandcamp.com/album/we-can-be-everywhere-2014-2023.