Where
The Creatures Of The Wind

Inspired by the Italian folklore myths of air creatures, such as Harpies, Cialalere, Vecchiarine, this album produced by Zairo (Nucciotti) and Darvulia - artists from the Bad Sector circle, if you know what I mean - goes far beyond the iconographies that at first glance might suggest a path suspended between esotericism and epos, closer to certain metal tendencies than to the industrial field.

In fact, "The Creatures of the Wind" is none of these. The sounds composing the eight tracks of the album were created and developed starting from recordings of the wind and noises from old windmills. Therefore, the genre is more that of concrete and electronic music, although here only the post-production technology is electronic. The result is astonishing, sonically speaking.

The project Where, born in 1999, which would later become Olhon to record another memorable album ("Veiovis" based on recordings from the depths of Italian lakes), was a moment of great artistic inspiration for Zairo, a character known almost exclusively in the most radical independent circuit. Determined to reconstruct the emotional traces of a fascinating cultural and social past, he found in the windmills the catalytic link between wind and man, transforming it into something atavistic and capable of evoking the most unsettling and abyssal sensations. The sounds of the opening track "Boreas" are the precise synthesis of what the work represents: a space-time suspension that sends shivers down your spine and draws in the subconscious the sneering faces of ancestral creatures that have been roaming our skies for centuries.

Through the monstrous creaks and the dense breaths of "Conoscenze Oscure", "Arpie", and "Sacro Terrore", Zairo and Darvulia tell us in their own way what the cd cover hints at encyclopedically. The feminine appearances of these flying monsters have long haunted people's nightmares, manifesting in various contexts and becoming the mirror of fears and phobias never resolved by reason. But there's more... It's not only the mephitic wings of the Harpies that flap in the shadow of these non-music musics. There are also deeper and more abominable hints, which an open and receptive mind welcomes in these nocturnal atmospheres like the hypnotic enchantment of some prehistoric deities. The ungraspable wind is a bearer of omens and hallucinations, making everything immense and devastating for the small and powerless individual wandering the paths of our peninsula at twilight.

Released by Eibon Records in 1999, quite rare to find. And it's worth trying.