Tomat
01-06 June

After releases as N.A.M.B. and Niagara, Davide Tomat returns as a solo artist with an album born from a series of vocal/synth/guitar jam sessions carried out with the help of loopers and effects.

As proudly noted in a press release highlighting the work's improvisational attitude, the nearly seventy minutes of 01-06 June were assembled without any overdubs after a week of intense recordings. With that said, one might imagine an approach to composition inspired by jazz. Nothing could be further from the truth: the iterative nature of the compositions aligns them not with Davis and Coltrane, but with the explorations of post-Eno explorers, a sound environment onto which vocal layers between Yes and Animal Collective are superimposed.

The result is an album that sidesteps the verse – bridge – chorus logic by delegating the maintenance of the attentional level to music's oblique stratagems, a goal unfortunately only partially achieved: a bit more planning and skill in selection would have benefited the variety of a work that, in its seventy-minute duration, equally enchants and bores.