DOM F. SCAB

"ANALOGICAL CONFESSIONS"

Groove Unlimited

Showing an uncanny ability to fusion rhythm and melody, already known in his previous works, Dom F. Scab re-creates an epic adventure, brimming with strong emotions. As the title of the album suggests, the music gathers, in a way, the pioneering impulse of Space Sequencer Music when, supported by analogic synthesizers, it opened the doors to a new universe of sound and music, in the 1970s. The technological evolution followed its course, thus easing the task of electronic musicians more and more, yet, in the opinion of many of the followers of this music, the essence of that First Creative Impulse was lost with the monopoly of digital sound. However, the pass of time has ended up by having the artistic dimension of those heroic pioneering machines grow. In many of those synthesizers, such as for instance the Yamaha CS-80 that Scab has been using, the characteristics that mark its technical fragility are just the ones that provide them with an expressivity typical of acoustic instruments most representative of orchestral virtuosity. Injecting new ideas to that old approach full of technological romanticism and a vision of the future, the composer succeeds in getting extraordinarily powerful sequencers, as well as intense, lively melodies, vital, capable of evoking inner ghosts that appear to re-create the most transcendental situations of human existence.

JORGE MUNNSHE

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