** 2025 stock ** Floris Maniscalco, artist and multi-instrumentalist based in Basel, brings forth Eternal Brink, a work of sustained experimentation and intimate scope, now available as a double vinyl via Plattfon Records. Its gestation, marked by the long arc from early 2020 to late 2023, reflects both patience and adaptation; each side finds Maniscalco working as much with limitations as with possibilities—the record becomes, in a sense, a chronicle of process and openness. Throughout, he draws from a variable palette: field recordings and dissonant electronic patches underlie subtly shifting narrative sequences, giving the music a diary-like cadence, where fragments and fleeting themes ebb and flow without urgency. The contributions of other participants, particularly their distinctive spoken voices, help anchor the more abstract sections, infusing the record with warmth and human scale, and preventing abstraction from tipping too far into aloofness.

Rather than foregrounding virtuosity or speculating about genre, Eternal Brink leans into movement and revision, pursuing an aesthetic closer to composite collage than completed statement. This is a release equally attuned to tranquil spaces and spikes of confrontation; moments of rhythmic clarity arise and recede amidst pools of sonic ambiguity. The album’s architecture, sometimes reminiscent of the minimal yet tactile approach favored by younger sound artists working in European experimental scenes, rewards repeated listening with new interpretive paths. Its best passages are those where restraint opens the possibility for detail—a piano chord echoing into silence, a half-submerged sample, the contours of a voice swirling in modulated air—all suggesting a music that builds its future from the trace and the remnant.

Pressed in a limited double LP format, Eternal Brink marks a distinct chapter in Maniscalco’s evolving output, drawing local attention through launch events and a carefully curated rollout. The release stands less as a culminating achievement and more as an invitation: listeners are encouraged to engage with the album as they might a series of half-remembered letters, each side offering perspectives on a landscape both familiar and ever arriving. The density and diversity of the record, refraining from grandstanding or overstatement, situate Maniscalco’s work as a gently probing but always grounded addition to Basel’s contemporary sound art community.