Wow! That is one piece of darkened art and experimentation. This is what I can say after listening to Francesco Bucci‘s new solo opus. Francesco is known as a founder of Ottone Pesante. Due to stop of activities because of covid pandemia, Francesco decided to experiment and create new songs with trombone and tuba and here they are in form of an opus containing seven songs. Besides wish to make music, tragedy also made an impact on creation of this album with personal loss of brother. Since I lost my sister and know how does it feel, I can totally relate to the darkened vibe of this album which was recorded live without loops or overdubs, just raw music. Francesco even plays tuba which his brother used to play. How does this sound? Those are instrumentals and to me they are atmospheric mix of dark ambient, dungeon synth played by tuba and trombone and Morricone’s soundtracks. Epic and melodic, but also eerie and haunting with some dark humor thrown in like in song called ‘Now I understand why Chuck Shuldiner called his band Death’. This is only English song title rest are Italian. Yes, I forgot, some songs also remind me of soundtracks to Italian giallo and horror movies by Argento or Bava. My personal favorites are ‘La marcia dei soldatini’ and ‘Il disperato cercarti nel fondo di un tuba’. If you are into something different try this one.

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