Bernocchi/ Chaplin ★★★★
The Same And The Other
CURIOUS MUSIC. CD/DL/LP
Veteran avant-garde electronica practitioners find a new groove.
Pivoting between pulsing, techno-ish deep grooves and meditative ambient soundscapes, Eraldo Bernocchi and Christopher Chaplin’s first album together is the gratifyingly accessible side of avant-garde electronica. While both in their early sixties, and sharing strong track records in experimental electronic music, the friendship between Italian Bernocchi and Swiss-born Brit Chaplin (youngest son of Charlie) is relatively new, the duo having met at a festival in 2019. Visual artist Paula Mattioli provided conceptual inspiration for an album that offers pause for reflection. Driven along by a subdued, syncopated rhythm and punctuated by animalistic bellows, Orbicular is as much about the space between notes as the music itself. By contrast, Foursquare straps itself to a tempo that could sway open-minded dancefloors, its soundbed of celestial voices ripped into by metallic, percussive shards. A collaboration of deep experience but still offering something fresh.