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Lettera 22 is a noise/electronics and field recording project from the Italian duo Riccardo Mazza and Matteo Castro. Both active in other projects like Drug Age, A Flower Collapsed, .. They are also owners of the Second Sleep label. “Lack Of Attention”, the album I will be reviewing, seems to be their first release with Lettera 22.The first and second track (all tracks are untitled) seem to be connected (in fact they all seem to be connected somehow) with each other and the first one opens with a dark drone, sounding like a humming generator or some kind, joined by all kinds of electronics and field recordings, bathing in a soft, spacious reverb, that also returns in most of the other tracks. It gets more chaotic after a while and the sounds that were mentioned are joined by harsh electronics and sharp feedback, descending into a violent display of nature. Track three is a twenty one second, short burst of brutal feedback salvo’s and harsh texture noise. The fourth track starts with field recordings of street sounds, ricocheting against the walls inside a building from were it seems to be recorded. Perhaps in the room that is shown on the cover of the artwork. It also sounds a bit like Arv & Miljö, but than more clearer in sound. Not for long, high ranged and corrosive noise joins in again. But the track ends were it began. Track five is a more psyche noise, orientated one, with delayed and reverbed sounds. But after a while it also succumbs under the heavy, decaying harsh noise.
Track six is the longest one, with a twenty two minutes in length. It’s an extension of the fifth track but actually also of all other ones. Underneath the defecating and claustrophobic noise you can hear people talking and other environment sounds are also to be heard, being swallowed in a sea of depraving nihilism. Around minute seven the sound gets more quiet again with a ringing scape/drone, more field recs (birds, church bells, ..) and rain like sounds. For some reason the drone has something ritual-like, but also meditative. Like a dark ode to our world and the nature outside of us. Here, the resemblances with Francisco Lopez's sound are not far away.
The sound of “Lack Of Attention is rough and fresh. Very Rough, like the artwork. But also sparse and hypnotic at some times, like the very last part of the last song. All six tracks should or could be seen as one track with different parts, instead of six individual ones. It also can be seen as a collision of the urban, human world with (other) nature. Anyway, it’s one heavy and dim ride I won’t forget.
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