Sergio Albano

Sergio Albano is a musician from Naples who already released music with various projects like Monte Ossa, Grizzly Imploded and Amklon (Collision of Absolutes, released on Boring Machines in 2016). His main instrument is the aluminum guitar, often treated with tons of electronic interventions, creating a continuous flow of tension and movement.

His music is the meeting point of so many seemingly irreconcilable worlds: an architecture of dark synthetic sounds and avant-garde noise floating on atmospheric textures and confessional voices. The result is a complex system of unusual forms, which barely contains a substance made of organic and nonorganic sounds.

The Future Is Fire is a concept, a sonic exploration that revolves around the concepts of Identity and Awareness. Inspired by Deleuze's words, "Every man is the variegated image of everything he has ever believed in", each individual is conceived biologically as a collection of memories, paths, smells, and sensations; all of this clashes with finitude, seen not as an exceptional element but as an integral part of everyday life, reflected in music, which acquires its sacredness by transcending itself.

This music embraces spaces, genres, and instrumentation in a centripetal and rhizomatic form. There are interruptions of information and randomness; like a game, it could go many ways; yet, it only goes one way: everything is pulverized by the urgent.

This album is an elegy for a world that no longer exists, a laceration encapsulated in the motto: "The past is ashes, the present is wood, the future is fire".

Sergio Albano: aluminum guitar and imagination. Mastering by Melanie Dettmer, Noel Summerville and Daniele Antezza. Artwork: Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1365 from James Webb (image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Janice Lee, NOIRLab; processing: Alyssa Pagan, STScI). Double LP, edition of 200 copies.