Italian drummer Andrea Dicò and synth Massimo Mascheroni began working together at the electronics-based Sokushinbutsu Project. Jets, the album and the name of Dicò and Mascheroni’s new duo, deepens and enriches their sound-oriented sonic palette with Dicò’s objects and field recordings and Mascheroni’s synths, samples, microphones, and effects. The album was recorded at ODRZ artistic group between August 2023 and March 2024.
Jets offers five distinct, detailed, and layered rhythmic textures – or enigmatic, unpredictable, and intense sonic rituals – that flirt with industrial music, electronica, noise, post-rock, and post-jazz, and were created through extensive improvisations and sonic collisions. Think of an Italian, updated, noisy variant of the seminal, Chicagoan post-rock band Gaster del Sol, or a late realization of Luigi Russolo’s futurist manifesto The Art of Noises.
These pieces sketch dark and obsessive, cinematic urban landscapes, but each of the pieces revolves around an elusive, often disorienting, and sparse vein. The opening piece, “Regalskeppet”, sounds as if the duo is busy unearthing a lost, magical chant beneath a layer of urban debris. “Animals” corresponds with the brutal, uncompromising dynamics of Dicò and Mascheroni. The shortest piece, “Istanbul”, captures faithfully the packed, nervous, and exotic vibe of the Turkish metropolis. “AZ504” suggests an otherworldly, mysterious, and hypnotic pulse. Dicò and Mascheroni’s sonic palette is drowned in a stubborn flow of chaotic and noisy, rhythmic interferences in the last title piece.
Andrea Dicò / Massimo Mascheroni – Jets (Materiali Sonori, 2025)
Andrea Dicò (drums, percussion, objects, field recordings); Massimo Mascheroni (synthesizer, sampler, microphones, effects).
