Iosonouncane
Die

LA RECENSIONE

Jacopo Incani is a songwriter and musician from Sardinia who publishes his records under the name Iosonouncane.

"Die" is his second work, a sort of 38-minute suite divided into six parts.

Incani masterfully blends electronics, singer-songwriter music, pop, experimentation, drone, folk, and psychedelia. Layered loops of Sardinian choral chants and female voices; sound manipulation inflicted on guitars, winds, keyboards, and percussion. These are the foundations on which the composition's structure is built.

"Die": in Sardinian day, in English to die, in German she. The semantic polyvalence of the title is indissolubly linked to the thematic concept: in broad daylight a man is on the verge of dying in the middle of the sea and waiting for him on land there is a she.

In the lyrics, Incani works through images (sometimes more concrete, sometimes more abstract). Predominant are naturalistic references. Sun, sea, wind, earth, trees, shores, eyes, thirst, hunger until reaching the quasi-apocalyptic scenarios of "Mandria". Words that, by repeating, connect the six pieces and further accentuate the underlying conceptual idea. All this without weighing down the finished result, also thanks to a vocal component skillfully "blurred" during mixing and fully harmonized with the music.

A heterogeneous work, but far from being dispersive or redundant. The reaffirmation of his compositional skill, already (de)monstrated in "La Macarena su Roma", and the proof that decrees the definitive maturity of Iosonouncane.