There’s a wonderfully poetic write-up in the release notes that unburden this writer of trying to add even greater poetics to the lush and centering sounds of Diaphanous, specifically:
“As with many tracks on the album, its background drones seem to appear from behind a mountain, conveying a humbling sense of scale as they sweep across the glacial valley in between sonic swells.”
“…crystalline flickers, approximating some psychic communication between nebulas, impossibly far away and millions of years in the past.”
These beautiful passages only begin to frame the excellently organic sounds that Innesti has put together on Diaphanous.
Diaphanous gives me a sense of looking through an old 18th century wavy glass window that’s aged to a point of abstraction; You can still make out shapes and colors, but it’s partly obscured and without sharp, well-defined edges, creating a rich and impressionistic soundscape that evokes a peaceful, floating gaze. This is something not lost on the author of the PR write-up, as they mention: “The very title, Diaphanous, suggests the scarcely seen, or the partially obscured…” I can’t say enough great things about the small sampling of the work that I’ve heard thus far and I look forward to listening to the recording in its entirety upon release. Well done!
Diaphanous comes out October 16, 2024 on Bandcamp in both digital and with a beautifully designed hard copy digipak option, limited to 200 – Get it here: https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/diaphanous
