It's been quite some time very quiet from selfimperfectionist from Turin (besides a recent remix for El Muniria) and if you read the liner notes from this album and his latest single you'll know why. The loss of parents is for sure a turning point in everyone's life. Existential questions and self reflective moments are suddenly inescapable.
His first release on the small independent Delete label 'Pure.' produced, mixed and mastered by Marco Milanesio, is pure electronics - the intro drift of "Dialectical" and the drive of "Forever" are minimal experiences in movements, leaving an open space which was clearly Giorgio Pilon's intention here. In his own words:
"Nostalgia accompanied by remembrance represent a purity that we preserve from oblivion; the very instant we try to trap this condition we inexorably decay."
The center piece, "Untold" dives deeper into unknown feelings, a soundscape developes gradually - an ambient, illbient, expression of a nagging 'too late'. Even what one could interpret as the voices of the damned appears deep in the mix at the end.
"Dusk" follows with a clearer structure, based on a remotely poppy sequencing while the lurking infinity is placed in the background like waves on a shore. Surprisingly even an uplifting beat appears 2 and a half minute in.
The concluding track "Goodbye, My Dear Friend" then goes all the way you can expect from instrumental electronic music with such a background and title: soundtrackish, melancholic, the unfiltered upfront and unashamed expression of feelings.
A short but memorable listening ...