2005 release ** "Third release under the pseudonym Punck for Adriano Zanni, an artist active in the Italian electroacoustic scene since the first half of the 90s. After his debut "Mu", released in 2002 on cd-r support, follows the 3-inch "A Movie Without Images" on the Ctrl+Alt+Canc label, a small netlabel founded by Zanni himself and dedicated to the diffusion of experimental sounds that, among other things, also includes in its catalog Ovo di Bruno Dorella and Sinistri. "Nowhere Campfire Tapes" is therefore a mature prod ction of an artist aware of his means and his background, musical and otherwise. The starting point is a purely domestic and territorial dimension, imbued with familiar and recurring plots in the imagination of the artist from Ravenna. The relationship between the element of water and the surrounding environment is the common thread that links the four tracks on the CD. Water and life, man and everything. The sense and spirit of field recording come to life and are even amplified by the electronic dimension. The 12 minutes of "Almost Anything" open with a rustle which is then superimposed by concreteness and frequencies, then rain, lifeblood in the midst of so much cold technology. In the second track, "Adriatico Lisergico", the element of water dominates. The sea in the background and voices that get lost in glitches, very important elements, sounds that recall a "homemade" imagination rich in simplicity in experimenting, but at the same time highly effective and above all evocative, an ideal point of connection between music and scenario. The campfire that recurs in the title, in a few words, electronic sounds made human, not exactly an easy task. Rain that comes and goes, alternating with the words of Paolo Ippoliti in "Tsunami Notes", threatening like the storm that inspired it, without having to resort to exaggerations. The sense of catastrophe is given by the contrast between the sound of a trickle of water and a whistle at increasingly higher frequencies, an airplane (?) in the background, really very beautiful. The whole thing ends with "Almost Nothing" which turns out to be the track most "easily" attributable to part of the music that Punck draws inspiration from, the Raster Noton and the electro-acoustics of the early Nineties. An easily quoted, because the auditory experience is always quite unusual. And it is precisely the "homemade" sounds (the noise of a radio-controlled toy car, a forklift?) that disorientate, that make the task of tracing everything back to sound forms already heard almost burdensome. Armed "only" with a laptop and microphone, Zanni succeeds in the not easy task of mixing electronics and humanity without being pretentious and obvious."