Menti Singole Vol. 2
by Leonardo Martelli
It’s already been two years since Leonardo Martelli’s debut with the four-tracker Menti Singole. He has since been following the direction he took with this first release, at a rather slow path, releasing a lone and haunted mini-album, Previsto, in the meantime.
With Menti Singole Vol.2, Martelli establishes a picture of his music, an update of his aspirations in the feminine.
Sparse, clear-cut and slightly nerve-racking, Micaella opens the record with the precision of a neurosurgeon. The song can be seen in many ways as a good introduction to the music of the Italian musician – past and probably future.
Ethereal string machines balance the nagging acid leitmotiv: as often with Martelli’s music, there’s something going on in the background, some anonymous forces operating off-screen.
We can make the same assessment with Alice, the most obviously desperate tune on the record: the sad synth melody comes in as if it was trying to fill an emotional void, but the supposedly reassuring sentence is not complete, notes are missing.
On Laura – just like with Alice – Martelli keeps on playing with the potential of abstraction of rap samples, a process we’re familiar with since Previsto.
Sofia gives a particularly striking example of this weird game he likes to play as Biggie Smalls’ words get progressively eviscerated from their meaning.
Backed by bare percussive samples (a numerical metronome, copyright-free digital ersatz of percussions), Sofia depicts – without any artifice – despair in a postindustrial world, where everything has lost any sense of materiality – while Previsto was still set in a industrial world of steaming factories.
Disarmingly simple, Menti Singole Vol.2 offers electronic mourning music at its most elegant.
Tracklisting
A.1 Micaela
A.2 Alice
B.1 Laura
B.2 Sofia

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