The second release in the Subway Singles series features two tracks that showcase Beresde's haunting and raw experimentation with sound and voice.
After co-founding the Italian experimental rock trio Narvalo in 2015 with Giorgio Frascogna (bass) and Antonio Solombrino (drums), Alessio Ferraioli and his bandmate Giorgio have been organizing small shows and releasing music with Sea Off Agency since 2016, a collective of independent and experimental musicians in the Neapolitan underground music scene. The collective, as Alessio describes it, is "an association that is diametrically opposed to what would be defined as 'for profit.' In a certain sense it could be thought of as a small gravitational center that attracts adventurous musicians who find themselves living in a province where their 'experimental' music might otherwise have no place."
Alessio Ferraioli released his first single under the moniker Beresde in 2021, his electronic solo project, where he delves into experimental electronic, noise, and IDM.
"The instrument with which I am most comfortable, and the only one I have studied with dedication, is the guitar, and it’s from there that I approached composing music [...] As for my personal approach to making music, including with Narvalo, my role was more that of an arranger than a guitarist: my musical ideas appear in my head already formed, with the instrumental arrangements already in front of my eyes. Like the guitar, the computer is an instrument I explore in order to create sonic landscapes that I find new and intriguing."
"The fact that both songs have lyrics that contain made-up words is due to the way in which they were initially imagined. [Sepetavorac] was replicating solemn music sung in Spanish, a language I do not understand, and therefore has that mysterious aura of Latin masses. With the second song I wanted to recreate those forbidden and dark atmospheres, totally unknown and alien, so I didn't want to reify it by attaching a particular meaning to it, if not for the only words 'Capricorno Re,' which suggest an idea, almost an omen." – Alessio
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released January 15, 2022
Recorded and produced by Beresde / Alessio Giuseppe Ferraioli
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