COMUNICARE by Sbrizzi FaBIO

Sylvain Lupari (France/Canada) "Sbrizzi FaBIO is Mac's musical partner; together they're the Italian duo BIOnighT. It is thanks to Mac if we can listen to this solo work that Sbrizzi FaBIO wanted to keep in his archives. Comunicare is "different" on an artistic level. There are few sequences and all the minimalist notes that we hear unravel are conceived, one by one, by Sbrizzi. A remarkably meticulous work which takes an enormous amount of time but gives astonishing results. This is rather amazing, especially when we listen to the first notes of Ipnoestasia. They are nimble and resound like glockenspiels on rising pulsations at irregular intervals. Very low, the pulsations form reverberating circles, looking further into a harmonious and warm impulse. A fluid tempo on shattering percussions flies with precision on a spiral movement of harmonious hypnosis. The chords cascade on synthetic pads that move in floating on a rather airy rhythm, thus creating two contradictory tempos. A superb synth, with sensual dashes, sails solitary on this superb track. This is an astonishing piece of music that impresses at the highest level. It wouldn't really matter if the rest of Comunicare bad, as this part alone is worth the price of this CD. Luckily, though, this is not the case. As the first chords of Ampipensieri start, we are bewitched by this minimalist tempo that ravels with grace. The track unravels à la Philip Glass, moving on a bi-linear passage that separates two distinct lines, to parallel movements based on a spectral synth. Superb violin layers add a romantic depth to Ampipensieri, which adds cadences of whirling notes in an increasingly harmonious sphere. Atonal, Animus Musicorum is a track with aggressive modulations, animated by explosive percussions and pulsations on a notched movement. Leningrado, instead, is a superb procession that evolves with a plaintive guitar on an undulating movement with floating and synthetic pads. Sbrizzi seasons this musical carousel of spiritual minimalist chords and a solo with emanations on progressive, wrapping layers. A marvelous daydream that ends on flying notes in spiral contours. Leningrado is another strong track. Written with his buddy Mac, Respiro Te is a beautiful linear emotion with a very beautiful synthesizer that oscillates between the sonorities of an old organ and those of an accordion. On the rhythm of an astral walk, where weak vocal intonations mix with the harmonious breaths of floating synths, Respiro Te dies out on a violin and a bass that slowly fade out. Like it or not, we are always influenced by the description of an album before buying it. When I found out that Sbrizzi FaBIO had used very little sequencering while making Comunicare I was disappointed. Because a sequencer is synonymous with rhythms, multi-sound musical swirls, and many other things. And I was wrong. Comunicare is a fantastic album, a powerful opus where Sbrizzi FaBIO shows ingenuity and an innate talent for composing music. A great CD full of surprises, emotions, tenderness and spirituality. All of that in the most astonishing sound structure. Comunicare by Sbrizzi FaBIO of BIOnighT is the album of 2006 in the universe of EM, a timeless work, with no borders. You have to get this one, you can't do without it. " Sylvain Lupari for Guts Of Darkness To visit this website click HERE

Igor Wroblewski "Fabio Sbrizzi is a half of the BIOnighT-duo, which is beyond any doubt oe of the most interesting el-projects in the new era. The "Communicare" recordings were to get hidden in FaBIO's private sound archives, but fortunately they got eventually published due to the intervention of Mac, the second half of the duo whereby SynGate is the label which has released the album. "Comunicare" is a very special album. Already the first piece, "Ipnoestasia" with its 18 minutes, brings enough magic and electronic strength to capture the listener totally. What we're dealing with here is a pumping ostinato doubled with a fascinating bassline (one could associate the atmosphere which was conjured up here with the mood of the quieter recordings from ProjeKct X or the rhythmic part of "Golden Gate" by P. Namlook and Ch. Uzzell-Edwards from "A New Consciousness"), vibraphone pulse, recurring waves of moving chords and a handful of spooky sounds in the background. There isn't really much going on as far as the sphere of melodics / harmonics is concerned, but there is plenty of room, charming melancholy and "suggestive visual power". Here the forces of sad sequential electronica and sophisticated postberlin-ambient get combined and the results are astounding. But now get ready for more enthralling music here!... "Ampipienseri" is from the very beginning situated somewhere in the Philip Glass-like polyphonic lands and ridges; FaBIO seems to create self-developing film-music and the listener is now responsible to pick up the most adequate visualisations to the harpsichord-like arpeggio with an autumnal aftertaste and a dreamy yet powerful mood. And here come the PPG-Wave mournful sounds, resembling of Jean Michel Jarre's "Oxygene" and get involved in the multilayered structures of nostalgia. "Animus musicorum" brings some piano fractals a la Fortepian a la "Ricochet" (TD) and intermingles with well-spied traces of "Force Majeure" (TD) and "Body Love" (KS) and yet the most important feature of this track is Fabio's individual sense of atmosphere and harmony. The 11-minute composition "Leningrado" is probably the very track which was treated with the most typical BIOnighT-touch, even more than the final impression "Respiro te", which was composed and recorded "with a little help from a friend" Mac. This piece features some moumental hymn bars a bit like in Vangelis' "To the Unknown Man". Usually I trynot to disturb the readers with exclamations and cries, but this time I have to make an exception and shout out loud: splendid, marvellous work. Don't hesitate." Igor Wroblewski