Sandro Brugnolini, Claudio Gizzi, Stefano Torossi

In a corner of the Italian musical underground, where analog tape hiss and synth paranoia coalesce, Commenti Musicali: Thrilling Vol.2 emerges as a cryptic artifact: the kind of compilation that seems fashioned for dusty backrooms and sleepless nights. Conceived in the early 1980s as part of the legendary Contempo Music Libraries series, this collection draws together some of the rarest Italian library themes on record - cues crafted not for radio play, but for backdrops of anxiety, suspense, and unspoken threat.

The album features original compositions from maverick figures such as Sandro Brugnolini, Claudio Gizzi, Leandro Piccioni, and Antonio Sechi, all produced under the watchful hand of Stefano Torossi. Side A glimmers with Gizzi’s suite of unsettling vignettes: blocks of sound like “Il Grande Fratello,” “Morte Clinica,” and “Psicosi da macchine” which dance between clinical dread and circular, minimal rhythm. On Side B, Piccioni’s “Serie Prima” (two versions) pulses with taut anticipation, while the spectral keys of “Plasma” and “Micromatera” float into abstraction. Sechi and Brugnolini add further spectral detail, notably with “Il fantasma dell’opera” and “Overdose” - sonic monologues fixated on dread and ecstasy.

The overall palette evokes little-known electro-ambient suites and krautrock’s obsidian edge, frequently compared to the cinematic tension of Tangerine Dream’s most haunted work. But Thrilling Vol.2 doesn’t chase easy nostalgia; it’s a study in atmosphere, where composition is as much about what is withheld as what is revealed. Scratches, drones, and modulated noise sculpt a haunted landscape - the perfect soil for directors in search of psychological friction, or the adventurous listener looking for new shapes in the dark.

Recently remastered from original master tapes, the record offers a sonic experience that remains unsettling, obscure, and beautifully realized. For library collectors, crate diggers, and connoisseurs of sonic anxiety, Commenti Musicali: Thrilling Vol.2 is a rare encounter with Italy’s shadow-casting musical imagination, refusing both comfort and closure at every haunted turn.