Zomes
Earth Grid

THE REVIEW

Somewhere I read about what is called ritual music (to be honest, on SentireAscoltare). The thing sounds very intriguing, and I must admit that the definition fits perfectly because that's exactly how "Earth Grid" sounds. Of course, the approach to ritual is a bit mechanical industrial and the electronics, if that's what it is, here reigns supreme.

A record of electronic ritual music, in short. It almost makes one think of The Prodigy in an ecclesiastical version, but in our case, we are light-years away from the electronics of the collective imagination. Zomes work with mantra and spirituality. The ideas are clear, the placement is clear. I am writing this review because this record simply bewitched me with its religious repetitiveness, its slow pace, its minimal asceticism, its cold yet intensely warm electronics in a Benedict 16 style. The absurd possesses the charm of incomprehensibility. Spirituality possesses the charm of incomprehensibility and Earth Grid, in its redundant, aphonic, and religious silence clings to you like a cold, but unlike the illness, this music is good for the mind.

"Pilgrim Traveller", "Spiraling", "Step Anew", "The Garden", "Ok Philosophy". But where are they? I don't know, but the satisfaction is great. Ah, there it is, the mind is rearranging itself, this is mental peace. I have found the order, the meaning, the structure of spirituality. It is a grid! It is the one on the cover! Ok, but beyond the chatter? The problem is that I can't stop listening to it, yet it's always maddeningly the same. If I had to recommend it, I would have some difficulties. Honestly, I don't feel like putting so much expectation in a work enjoyable only(?) in this strange way of mine. It wouldn't be right to surpass three or four cautious "stars" in public, but the record, to me, speaks for itself…