Maurizio Bianchi, P.U.M.A.

Did anyone say „cinema for the ears“? Littered with film references in the track titles, this album makes it clear from the outset that its aim is to sonically create a film (or several of them) in listener’s heads. The intended atmosphere of the film is outlined by the cinematic works that are quoted in the tracklist.

With THX 1138, A Clockwork Orange, Eraserhead, and Stalker as the most prominent examples, the album practically lists much of the cinematic canon of international „industrial“ culture, adding the 1970 TV crime series Coralba as a more specifically Italian pop-cultural references.

The poetic liner notes seem to suggest that we are all just fragments of a „Pangaea“ of the collective unconscious, and that images and sound are the media we use to connect us back to the depths of this primeval abyss. Arguably, movies such as the ones mentioned, and music such as the music on this album, may be particularly effective transmitters to this realm, making us feel the presence of the abyss without ever „revealing“ it.

P.U.M.A. aka Luca Valisi & Monica Calanni Rindina used synths, effects and fields recordings. Voice by Monica Calanni Rindina. M. B. used abyssotronics and dronic slit effects. Composed between the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025 at the OYPTCEM Studio in Opera. Factory-produced CDr in digisleeve, limited edition of 100 copies.