Domenico Sciajno
Right after
Right After is a remarkably subtle album of duo electronics by two relatively young Italians with roots in avant-garde improvisation. While Giuseppe Ielasi began his career as a guitarist and Domenico Sciajno was an improvising bassist of note, both gradually moved into the area of pure electronics and sound manipulation. A fine balance of pristine, crystalline sounds and earthy scrabbling noises is shown from the first track, ²at a greater distance² which offsets pinging, high pitched tones tha…
Gelbe tupfen
This is another of Ralph Wehowsky's collaborative project based on recycling recorded material. In fact it's the "Christmas Carol" wheeze mentioned in Dan Warburton's interview with Wehowsky in The Wire 259. Gelbe Tupfen is a split album: Domenico Sciajno's "i.Dk.Sk." occupies the first half hour, followed by Wehowsky's own "Mneme Gelb", a 22 minute electroacustic suite. Sciajno is a bassist and software wrangler originally from Turin, now based in Sicily. Deploying extreme high and low frequenc…
The d&b album
Unless you're living in some parallel universe where ruffneck glitch anthems pack Dalston dancefloors, Sciajno and Prins do not by any stretch of the immagination create the drun 'n' bass suggested by the album title, although their work allude to more populist forms. There's plenty to enjoy over the album's five tracks. Prins's homemade electronics and Sciajno's fidgety computer processing create an extraordinary assymetric momentum, arhythmic yet somehow pulsing and direct, particularly on "Ca…