{"id":16584,"date":"2020-04-13T19:50:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T23:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/records\/illusion-of-time-daniel-avery-alessandro-cortini\/"},"modified":"2020-04-14T10:59:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T14:59:43","slug":"illusion-of-time-daniel-avery-alessandro-cortini","status":"publish","type":"records","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/records\/illusion-of-time-daniel-avery-alessandro-cortini\/","title":{"rendered":"Illusion of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Illusion of Time<\/em> stands out among the new releases, both on the artist\u2019s side \u2013 the most exciting electronic music producers of the moment \u2013 and on the production side, with its endless exchange of files by email. Let’s take the elegant yet violent Daniel Avery, with his London rave baggage (Drone Logic<\/em>) and discreetly earned title of \u201cRichard D. James\u2019 heir\u201d (Song for Alpha<\/em>), and connect him to the diabolical Alessandro Cortini, keyboardist with links to Nine Inch Nails and transalpine master of the Buchla synth. The resulting album is a perturbation, a worrying strangeness. Enough to please the apostles of noise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s the grey sheets of shoegaze, the beloved modular sounds thoroughly saturated, the primal cry of the machines, the ambient that thunders like a promise we won’t keep, this pile-up of synthesizers -\u2013 masterful and definitive. Such are the strengths here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Illusion of Time<\/em> is a haunting album. Often the notes surprise us, emerging from the analog din (the very melodic title track), then leave the impression of horizons that extend into the darkest layers of the album (\u201cEnter Exist\u201d, \u201cCC Pad\u201d). Suddenly they escape, flee far away, and the infinite arrives with sweetness (\u201cWater\u201d). If the collaboration often doesn\u2019t seem to be a real fusion, a little four-handed alchemy, we can still hear the tricks, and the perfect balance between these two behemoths. One can\u2019t say if, in this duel, one dominates over the other. Maybe the perfect album to think about the times to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n