DELREI releases album “Desolation and Radiation”
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Genres: Rock, Americana, Soundtrack, Blues
For Fans Of: Ennio Morricone, Spaghetti Western, Chris Isaak, Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch, James Wilsey
Rockit.it: Siamo di fronte a un lavoro di ottima caratura sia compositiva che di organizzazione e gestione sonora del tutto.
Off Topic Magazine IT: Insomma, per questo sorprendente album, Delrei mette sul piatto la sua visione senza parole di un mondo proveniente dal futuro, malinconico, pieno di sogni perduti, intriso di riff oscuri e intriganti, che dipingono scene drammatiche, un suono a tratti spettrale in grado di evocare molte cose con poche note sussurrate.
Post-Punk.com: Bathed in mysterious, electric guitar twangs and spectral tunes dusted with age, the sultry “Get Lost Blues” conducts a Spaghetti Western symphony of the post-apocalyptic West. We hear echoes of the iconic compositions of Ennio Morricone, the brooding rock ‘n’ roll vibe of Chris Isaak, the atmospheric melodies of Angelo Badalamenti, the eerie dreamworld of David Lynch (particularly Wild At Heart and Lost Highway,) and the expressive guitar strings of James Wilsey.
Rumore Mag: GOTICA recensione a cura di Stefano Morelli. 80/100. Il sentiero è impervio, l'orizzonte rosso arancio e il vento batte senza tregua, ricollocando nella mente la missione solare, la vengeance spirituale dell'eroe, che tanto caratterizzò la poetica del western leoniane del postmoderno ritatto da Lynch Jodorowsky, Carpenter e Tarantino. Questo per ciò che concerne l'immaginario epico e visuale della narrazione strumentale che, a dispetto delle formalità, concede ad Alessandro Mercanzin una credibile definizione. Codice apocalittico che si situa nell'acustico cinematico e neoromantico, in una sorta di ibrido tra Isaak, Morricone, Badalamenti, il già citato Carpenter, Wall Of Voodoo e Fields Of The Nephilim (spiccano Ensenada e Get Lost Blues).
Tutto Rock: Delrei – Intervista Al Musicista Che Presenta Desolation And Radiation by Marco Pritoni
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Album description:
The shadowy twang of electric guitars, the dusty spectral melodies, the driving orchestral timpani, the rural instruments like banjo, harmonica & mouth harp … these are the elements with which Desolation and Radiation orchestrates a mythic western of the future. Italy's Alessandro Mercanzin imagines a visionary dystopia where a solitary figure navigates an inhospitable post-nuclear desert. It’s a hypnotic land of cold haunted nights, lonely red vistas and somber personal solitude.
Alex reflects, "Desolation and Radiation is a wordless vision of a lost world from the future. To me it's melancholy, filled with lost dreams. With a ghostly sound in my mind, I wanted to pull off dark intriguing riffs, and I found I could say a lot of things with a few whispered notes from my guitars. These songs paint dramatic scenes that take me to a reverb-drenched wasteland in a parallel world."
Aided by producer Maurizio Baggio (recently producing Soft Moon, Boy Harsher, & Nuovo Testamento) Alex plays with genres including the Giallo-pulp that scored his personal musical evolution while toying, avoiding and embracing the clichés of Italian Spaghetti Westerns. The adventurous sound of the album is coaxed from various guitars, vintage instruments, reverbs, and the marranzanu (a traditional Sicilian harp.) Alex plays most of the instruments and is augmented by Maurizio’s vintage synths and old 60s organs, Michele Tedesco’s trumpets on "Nowhere to Ride," and Stefano Miozzo’s pedal steel guitar on "Far from Here.”
In the end, Desolation and Radiation has its veiled message: a warning to prevent the mistakes of the past from transforming our present into a terrifying future.
Track Listing:
1 Solitario
2 Into the Wasteland
3 Nowhere to Ride
4 Ensenada
5 Far from Here
6 Get Lost Blues | video at YouTube
7 Lonely Night
8 Dusk
9 Country
10 Mysterious Traveler
11 Daydream
