tellKujira
Superpang, 2023
8/10
A Rome outfit with a penchant for artistic ideas, Ambra Chiara Michelangeli, Francesco Diodati, Francesco Guerri and Stefano Calderno, i.e. tellKujira bring a lot of unpredictability to these 5 pieces.
“Kujira” opens the listen with much ambience, where light guitar floats amid the sounds of tinkering in very mysterious ways, and “Trompe les dieux” follows with Michelangeli’s strategically plucked viola that suits the gorgeous cello from Guerri.
Halfway through, “Tomwaits” builds into a jarring, aberrant display of noisy dynamics, while “Interior Sketch” mixes the careful strings with distinct droning and cinematic swells for the iconoclastic 10+ minutes. The record exits with “Piece sombre”, where Calderno and Diodati’s dreamy guitars intersect with sci-fi like gestures that are quite unusual.
Part electronica, part free jazz and part art-rock, this is an abstract and polyrhythmic adventure that you’re not likely to hear anywhere else, but that you’ll certainly want to revisit again.
Travels well with: R.Y.F.- Deep Dark Blue; Lovataraxx-Sophomore