Giuseppe Ielasi and Riccardo D. Wanke’s "with time, we learned to ask less" is a gentle meditation on the spaces between sounds, a duo album forged from decades-long friendship and mutual respect. Their dialogue - woven through electric guitar and electric piano - is minimalist yet lush, where every note is allowed to breathe and the silences sing almost louder than what surrounds them.

The album blossoms from a two-day improvised session at Ielasi’s Monza studio, refined through patient editing. The result is a coherent 44-minute journey, where the musicians anticipate and complement each other in real time. Their interplay feels less like performance and more like sculpture - chiseled with precision and care, reminiscent of Feldman’s affectionate minimalism applied to modern electric timbres.

Ielasi, known famously for his mastery in microtonal textures and electroacoustic restraint, balances Wanke’s electric piano with piercing sensitivity and subtle reverb washes. Wanke - also a scholar of psychoacoustics - matches this restraint with harmonic patience. Together, they craft a space where tempo seems suspended, and compositional intent slips almost imperceptibly into ambient drift.

This isn’t an album dictated by structure - it invites you to enter a breathing space. Its beauty lies in what isn’t said: a note held long enough to echo in memory, a gentle chord progression that resolves by disappearing. "with time, we learned to ask less" is aptly named; it’s an exercise in restraint, a duo trusting time to unfold the narrative. In a world cluttered by digital clutter, this album feels like a breath of fresh air - quiet, thoughtful, and profoundly human.