Uochi Toki
Distopi EP

THE REVIEW

It is never easy to review a group like Uochi Toki. Especially if the rap duo in question releases a track from their latest album "Idioti," published in 2012 by La Tempesta Dischi. See, despite your efforts, you still fall into the banal rhetoric of the average web reviewer, compiling "with the help of information found online" a short list of details that will hardly interest anyone.

Okay, let's try again... Dystopia is the surface, which drives a man to take refuge in the bowels of the earth. Làthe biósas. Live hidden. The reality of the underground is congenial to him, he is one of the few who can adapt "to the bending lines of space and time" unlike the other beings who "become only part of events" unable to act and alter their course. The only way out is a closed place. Accompanying Napo's narration, punctuated by a filtered voice from the underground world, are Rico's sounds, more claustrophilic than claustrophobic. Continuous synthetic flows that estrange from the superficial non-reality, aided (or interspersed) by angular rhythmic bases.

The 14 minutes of Distopi constitute a selection of themes already present in previous works: the wizard and the space-time relationship (from "Cuore amore errore disintegrazione"), claustrophilia (present in "Libro Audio"). The instrumental bases do not differ much from the noise of "Idioti" and repeatedly result in more or less minimal digressions.

Downloadable for free here and listenable here.