Bleep

Widely revered Italian abstract-techno don Donato Dozzy lands down on key Washington State label Further (Rrose, Strategy, Jo Johnson) for this high-concept album of electronics…and mouth harp. In April 2015, Dozzy returned home to his parents’ house in Italy and began recording sessions with his childhood mouth harp, or ‘marranzano’. Made ‘indoors and outdoors, half-way up mountains and on the edge of the Mediterranean sea’, Dozzy spins and processes the percussive mouth-harp into a wave of multi-timbral phrases underpinned by a trance-like throb. It takes a real master to take such a humble, primitive instrument and elevate it to this level. It's not the first time Dozzy has modelled a release around one sound or instrument—earlier in 2015 he released Sintetizzatrice, which was made entirely from the voice of Rome-based singer Anna Caragnano.