Monday's Long Song

 

Alessandro Cortini is well known as a part of Nine Inch Nails and for me during the last years by his collaboration with Daniel Avery released his second solo album Scuro Chiaro the recent days. Bright and dark is the perfect translation/description of his album. There are short songs with a kind of dark vibe in it and there are dark songs like Nessumo that sounds like they were from behind a wall of fog evoking a kind of slow-motion panic. The songs as far as I heard yet are not easy to listen to but the more I listen to them and it's somber mood the more I like them.

Monday's Long Song

Last week Daniel Avery released his collaboration with Nine Inch Nail's Alessandro Cortini Illusion of Time. Since I got this album it is on heavy rotation at my place. Avery went away with this album from the club to create with Cortini a very special and unique sound. Two great artists on synths are ready to a musical trip into new spaces. Inspired by kosmische music the invite us to follow and this superb album is the perfect soundtrack to slow down in these days. Water is one of the most winding and beautiful pieces of ambient I ever heard.

Old Vine In New Bottles

One of those musicians that recorded covers galore is the country icon Johnny Cash. A lot of them are better than the originals or minimum interpreted in a very unique sound only he could do. Hurt was recorded after his wife June Carter died and shortly before left for heaven. From all of his cover versions I like this song best. He sings Trent Reznor's song by Nine Inch Nails in his very own style with his dark baritone over a wispy acoustic guitar and some piano chords. I hurt myself today / to see if I still feel and What have I become my dearest friend? / Everyone I know goes away in the end are some kind of legacy or suicide notes. Somber, dark and for eternity.