SabaSaba

*60 copies limited edition* SabaSaba return with ‘Detriti’, a companion piece to 2024’s dystopian ‘Unknown City’. The duo of Andrea Marini (synth, guitar, electronics, tapes) and Gabriele Maggiorotto (drums, percussion, effects, programming) are joined by collaborator Ambra Chiara Michelangeli on viola. The mysterious Torino ensemble trades in much of their digital sheen for a rollicking half-pensive, half-dream suspended soundtrack. An organic looseness permeates the short tracks creating fertile ground for haunting themes, skeletal melancholia and sinister atmospheres. Their techno roots are buried into a cosmos of library music, Argento noir and orchestrated desolation.

Fragments of matter, organic or inorganic, resulting from slow processes of disintegration, erosion or death of a larger body. They are what remains after the loss of form and unity caused by external agents, a material trace of the passing of time, a fragment that survives its original form and, through transformation, continues to speak of its past.