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THE REVIEW
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.
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Davide Tomat's solo album '01-06 June' emerges from improvisational jam sessions using loopers and effects. The album avoids traditional song structures, layering vocals reminiscent of Yes and Animal Collective over synth-rich soundscapes. While ambitious in its experimental approach, the nearly seventy-minute work sometimes struggles with variety, causing moments of both enchantment and boredom.
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Davide Tomat is presented in the review as a solo artist who previously released music as N.A.M.B. and Niagara. The album 01-06 June was assembled from vocal/synth/guitar jam sessions using loopers and effects and recorded without overdubs.01 Reviews
