Chicago Reader (17 April 2008) --english--
23-04-2008
Young italian percussionist Andrea Belfi is part of a growing rank of creative musicians smashing the limitations of genre, seeing no good reason that rock and experimental music, for instance, need to be defined as distinct fields, much less in opposition to each other. He's played in the rock-tinged duo Christa Pfangen and in texture-oriented improvisational ensambles like Medves, but I've found his solo work to be the best. On the new Knots (Die Schachtel), a four part suite, Belfi wends his way a calm grace through gradually shifting terrain that reveals rich detail all around. Centered on his peripatetic but steday drumming, which governs the pulse of the music even when it occasionally drops out, Knots ebs and flows with various combinations of electric and acoustic drones, looped samples, minimalist melodic patterns and tuned percussion resonances.It all reminds me of a more spacious and chilled-out Radian.
Peter Margasak (chicagoreader.com)
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