A fortunate and successful meeting “between the romantic and the analytical, the sentimental and the Pragmatic”. This double soul lives inside the ambient-electronics contained in ‘Rote Um’, the debut album by the artistic partnership between TeZ (Maurizio Martinucci, member of Clock DVA since 2010) and Saverio Rosi (aka ‘Leastupperbound’ and member of the band ‘Open to the Sea’ with Enrico Coniglio and Matteo UIggeri). Both Italian composers based in Amsterdam, TeZ and Rosi top a ten-year friendship by exchanging their musical skin to generate 8 gems of great intensity, divided between icy dronic expanses and warm electroacoustic embraces. The main feature of ‘Rote Um’ is its complementarity: Rosi’s analog experiments, imbued with low-fi and field-recording, are nestled in the endless digital landscapes, with cold hues and full of hypnagogic sensations, painted by TeZ. All this gives birth to a synesthetic and touching experience, halfway between the moody ambient by Labradford and the nocturnal abstractionism by Mirt. All tracks on ‘Rote Um’ were recorded and mixed in 2022 at Optobunker Studio in Amsterdam, and wizardly mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. The album is released in two limited editions: CD digipack (300 copies) and cassette (75 copies).
credits
released September 15, 2023
All tracks by Saverio Rosi & TeZ.
Recorded and mixed at OPTOBUNKER, Amsterdam 2022.
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi.
Artwork by TeZ.
Layout by Backwards.
This is a stunning bridge between the industrial sounds I listened to in the '80s and other Eno-esque "music without a chorus and verse". They have put together great audio textures and brought in percussion on some tracks without burying the subtle electronic nuances. Smart music that stands the test of time! atmcgibbon
It's a Coil album. I really need not say more than that, but I will.
A one-of-a-kind electronic album that remains exciting over thirty years later. I love the acid-y techno bits and the vocoded vocals. Essential Coil album - essential electronic and post-industrial album.
The title track is a masterpiece. polyat6742
Gorgeous and immersive, the new LP from haana lee consists of ever-expanding ambient tracks that envelop you completely. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 22, 2025
With all proceeds going to benefit Ukraine, the latest from Angela Winter is a beautifully haunting work that centers the human voice. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 16, 2022
of the sara dale tracks 7, 8 and happy end are the most realised. volcanozo could easily find a place on a hypothetical 'greatest dark ambient hits' collection. theme from blue is a couple of really interesting ideas which could do with an extended edit and then there's the towering the hills are alive: one of the greatest pieces of experimental studio mastery ever tucked away as a hidden track. a mixed bag but there's some class stuff in here. arcx.soux