UMBERTO Confrontations LP

UMBERTO Confrontations LP

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(Not Not Fun)
*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***

DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
The latest time-capsule of nostalgic Italo-style synthcreep from Umberto, Confrontations is a return to the darker and more ominous sounds of his first two discs, where Umberto's Matt Hill (also of Expo 70) perfectly channeled the classic late 70s/early 80s soundtrack works of maestro Fabio Frizzi, Lucio Fulci's go-to guy for such pasta-splatter epics as Zombi 2, The Beyond, and City Of The Living Dead. It's that same sound here, unabashedly retro but Hill captures that sound better than anyone, nailing that eerie, weird mixture of spacey synths, choral voices, funky synth-bass and gated drums that helped give those old Italian gore fantasies their otherworldly ambience. This time, Confrontations surrounds itself with vague themes and imagery that feels as if this could have come from some long-forgotten, whispered-about Italian alien invasion flick from 1981, a dark sci-fi vibe running throughout tracks like "Night Fantasy", "The Invasion" and "Initial Revelation", each one a perfectly composed piece of synth-heavy eeriness and stalking terror-disco groove. A lot of reviews have described Umberto's music as riffing on both John Carpenter's spare synth scores and the opulent prog of Claudio Simonetti and Goblin, but they don't know what the fuck they're talking about; I'm sure that Hill is a big fan of both, but this music sounds virtually nothing like Carpenter or Simonetti, and it drives me nuts when I constantly see people using those references to describe Umberto's music; no, this is all about Frizzi, drawing from his unique style of haunting choral voices, the funky synth-bass and cascading twilight melodies, the melodies easily shifting from cosmic wonder to more sinister, malevolent forms, the sound slow-moving and minimal, each track a miniature symphony of rot and wondrous horror. That's not to say that fans of those legendary horror soundtrack artists wouldn't love this album; anyone with a love of golden-era splatter movie soundtracks will totally fall for Umberto's dusty, familiar analogue sound, as would fans of Tangerine Dream's early 80s works, fellow retro-creepers Gatekeeper, and Sinoia Caves's awesome score to Panos Cosmatos's psychotropic sci-fi nightmare Beyond The Black Rainbow. I fucking LOVE Umberto's previous albums (to the extent that we're even doing a limited Cd reissue of the now out of print From The Grave later in 2013), and Confrontations is just as evocative and nostalgic as those works. Highly recommended.
Available on both digipack Cd and limited edition vinyl. © CRUCIAL BLAST
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