Bellows (E128) : Entr’acte

Bellows
Reelin’
CD (E128)

CDJ/Sony Walkman/Revox A77/Memory Man

Recorded by Giuseppe Ielasi and Nicola Ratti
in Oreno, February 2011

First edition of 350 copies

Giuseppe Ielasi and Nicola Ratti reconvene their
wonderfully enigmatic Bellows project with a ghostly
album for Entr’acte. Reelin’ is the third document
of their hardware-honed endeavours, and much like
their eponymous debut on Kning Disk and celebrated
side for Planam, we’re left with little background info
other than their equipment list. Navigating between
a CDJ/Sony Walkman/Revox A77/Memory Man, they
create labyrinthine meta-pathways through quietly
convective thickets of acousmatic sound; from
tantalisingly spacious clouds of fuzzy electronics
verging on Rhythm & Sound-like dub imprints to
water-stained electronics reminding of BJ Nilsen &
Stilluppsteypa’s Space Finale and more fractal,
decaying bleeps nudged and frayed with a beauti-
fully tactile intuition. The whole thing is just sub-
lime, but there are a couple of outstanding tracks,
practically worth the entry alone; like the ten
minutes of scanning aquatic pulses and distant
spectral apparitions of track 4, or the lushly dis-
cordant, stereo-splitting shapes of track 6 —
sounding something like a more autistic cousin
to tracks from Leyland Kirby’s Intrigue & Stuff
series — but this really must be experienced as
a whole for optimal, immersive effect.

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