2025 stock ** Limited edition of 200 copies. "Simon Balestrazzi is one of the leading names in the European post-industrial scene. Starting from the unforgettable T.A.C. to the most recent projects, such as Dream Weapon Ritual and A Sphere Of Simple Green, he has built a personal and recognizable sound paradigm over time. In recent years he has also explored more purely electroacoustic dynamics, producing the excellent Redshift and the equally interesting Licheni, a collaboration shared with Nicola Quiriconi of VipCancro. His latest Cautionary Tales, follows a different path, attributable to a more traditional composition. Refined over 15 years of constant improvements, the work synthesizes some studies carried out by Balestrazzi in his long artistic career. A dense and disturbing path that reflects on the warning tales of folk tradition and that allows the most neoclassical side of the ex-T.A.C. to emerge, made of dark, masterfully sculpted drones, here augmented by esoteric sounds, and objects that resonate and disperse in a ritualistic dimension. Between interludes of strings that smell of the apocalypse and alarming signals with a neo-folk flavor, the sound unfolds by calibrating different tensions, until it builds an evocative oral story that is reflected in the enraptured faces of the listeners, barely illuminated by the flickering light of a fire in the darkness. There is no shortage of ecstatic openings that graze sounds à la Coil, embellished by the vocals of Monica Mariani and Sara Cappai (There Is A Crack In Everything), as well as tough drones (the last warning assault of Sudden Collapse Of The Social Structure We Knew); the 16 minutes of Last Feast Of An Anonymous Trinity contain the specific weight of the entire album, transfiguring most of its elements into an engaging nocturnal phantasmagoria."