Ramona Ponzini, Maurizio Bianchi

Test Pressing version. The encounter between Ramona Ponzini and Maurizio Bianchi yields a work poised on the threshold between evocation and vertigo: a sonic device unfolding through stratifications, resonances, and semantic as well as acoustic collisions.

Maurizio Bianchi, a pioneer of the Italian industrial scene, chisels soundscapes built from abrasive, material noises, dissonant cadences, and atmospheres both dust-laden and rarefied yet simultaneously dense. The listener moves across these terrains as if navigating a landscape of ruins: sonic debris, distant echoes, reverberations functioning as unstable archives of memory. His practice remains faithful to the grammar of noise in its most concrete form, transforming chaos into a syntax that vibrates and breathes.

Upon this fractured yet fertile topography, Ramona Ponzini overlays her voice and texts, which become a dramaturgical substance in their own right. Some tracks draw upon haiku; others rework and sample fragments of cinematic dialogues. Elsewhere, her writing emerges from cut-ups of sacred or Jungian texts, opening onto mystical and visionary apertures. Yet her research pushes further still: Ponzini develops an unprecedented sonic language based on anagrams, an impossible tongue that comes alive through fractured vowels and recombined consonants. Her Japanese vocal delivery - long her artistic language of choice - is never a mere semantic vehicle. Instead, it becomes vibration, an acoustic body intertwining with Bianchi’s cacophonic textures. The outcome is a dialogue in which instrumental density and whispered fragility coexist, producing an equilibrium at once unstable and remarkably coherent.

The album thus takes shape as a liminal landscape, constructed out of sonic ruins and verbal visionary force, to be inhabited with both attention and surrender. It is a work that insists on deep listening, one that embraces disjunctions and contrasts while dwelling in suspension.