If you saw the title "Enjoy Country Music" and expected cowboy hats, steel guitars, and open-road ballads, you might want to recalibrate. This is country music for a country that doesn’t exist - one lost in time, submerged in reverb, and stretching out into vast, fog-soaked landscapes where the horizon never quite resolves.
The duo of Tommaso Rolando (double bass) and Domiziano Maselli (modular synths, tape loops, amps) didn’t set out to reinvent Americana; instead, they dismantled it molecule by molecule, stretched it across 15-meter tape loops, and let it resonate inside a cavernous warehouse. What emerges is not so much an album as it is an auditory excavation, a search for something primal in the low frequencies, the echo of wood and wire, the ghostly aftershocks of sound bouncing off cold concrete walls.
Opening track "Inandiare" sets the tone - a deep, throbbing double bass pulse that feels like a slow, ominous heartbeat, wrapped in misty synth drones that swirl like vapor from a frozen river. The album moves like a fog creeping through abandoned structures: "From the River" slithers forward in hushed tones, a spectral conversation between bowed bass and flickering electronic textures.
Then there’s "Static, or the Perception of God I, II & III" - a recurring motif that feels like a transmission from some lost spiritual frequency, a whisper from the ether. The title suggests transcendence, and indeed, these fragments hover between the sacred and the industrial, like monastic chants recorded inside a power station.
"Fega" and "Vìola" flirt with something more rhythmic, though never in a conventional sense. There’s a gravitational pull in the bass, a tension in the textures, but everything remains elusive, slipping through your grasp before you can define it.
And then there’s "Broken Speaker" - not so much a track as it is an exorcism of damaged sound, a brief moment where distortion and decay take center stage before dissolving into the void.
What makes "Enjoy Country Music" so fascinating is how it feels both organic and entirely otherworldly. The fact that it was recorded inside a vast warehouse, using the natural acoustics of the space itself, makes it part field recording, part composition, part architectural ghost story. The environment plays as much a role in the music as the musicians do.
This is country music if the country were an abandoned coastline, a vast expanse of steel and fog, where lost signals from some forgotten past still hum in the walls.
Like a Morton Feldman piece gone rogue, or an ambient Spaghetti Western soundtrack with all the melody stripped away, "Enjoy Country Music" is hypnotic, eerie, and strangely beautiful in its restraint. It demands patience, but for those willing to sit with it, it reveals entire landscapes hidden in the spaces between notes.
Best played at night, preferably inside a warehouse, with the lights off and the ghosts of lost frequencies keeping you company.