Last year, Your EDM announced that legendary ambient house and trance artist GIanfranco Pescetti would be returning to EDM in what can only be called a redebut. The first teaser “The Wake” from his next album, day night star, heralded a new era for Pescetti, not only in terms of time but also in terms of style. Now with three more tracks that advance the album by almost a year, day night star has confirmed his resurgence in music, with an even greater focus on that important ambient production.
When he originally debuted in 2014 with his first album, love is rain, Without a doubt, the promise of Pescetti's production talent was already there and greatly appreciated by his fans. However, it wasn't strictly electronic and it certainly wasn't EDM. Rather a fusion of indie pop, dream pop and ambient electronica, tracks from the album and subsequent pop punk hit “All Fall Apart” were promoted with other modern and vintage fusion acts such as tycho, Washed and the Cocteau Cufflinks. Not a bad number to count, but Pescetti took a decade-long break before releasing solo work, much to the chagrin of the significant fan base he had built with Love is rain. However, it seems he never stopped producing, he just perfected his craft.
As an apparent preview of the teasers, Pescetti released a reworking of the jazz classic “Fly Me to the Moon” in early 2023, a chill house bop that instantly demonstrated that he had been working on his electronic production for these ten years. . From there, “The Wake” and his following albums, “Stopless”, “Be My Ghost” and “Clownspunk” also showed that Pescetti did not plan to limit himself to a single genre of electronica, even though the indie pop vibes and voices of love is rain and “All Fall Apart” largely disappeared. While “The Wake,” a mostly ambient breakbeat track had Pescetti’s touch of vintage synths and bass talent, “Stopless” was a straight up-and-down house track with an analog bassline and Goan trance vibes. . “Stopless,” another house track that borders on psytrance, gives listeners their first vocal, but it's a female sample rather than Pescetti's own voice, and “Punk clowns”, whose simple artwork matches its bold name, has a bass house beat and was released just before the album with a music video which, continuing with the clown theme, are excerpts from the work of Charlie Chaplin The circusedited to fit the music.
The rest of love is rain contains as much or more variation. It opens with the almost strident “Clownspunk” but then launches into two largely ambient tracks, “Macchia, I'll See You…” and “Obsidian,” an electronic breakbeat creation that was clearly inspired by both. New order and Enigma. As one dives into the essence of the album, a journey or theme begins to form, with the haunting, Peter Hook-Esque low since it is a ground floor. This is ambient for ambient's sake, and a beautiful homage to when the new wave of the '80s gave way to the emerging rave music of the '90s, which has now evolved into EDM. However, listeners realize that it's not all a bath of homogeneous ambient sound, as the album's midpoint hits “Nostalgia Aime Le Rouge,” with its experimental beginning and heavy, complex drums. If Pescetti had existed back then, this gothic song would have gone straight to the The Raven soundtrack.
I would like to exist at the intersection of light and darkness, and that's how I listen to music. It is within this duality where tension can be found: the push and pull.
More twists and turns and push and pull await the listener in the second half of Daystar Nocutrnal, where the atmosphere becomes fast rhythms and humor becomes emotion. A masterpiece for the new era from him and a love letter to electronic music production and all the artists who came before him (including himself), Gianfranco Pescetti is back and ready to change the ambient EDM scene for the better.
day night star is now available and can be streamed on Spotify.
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