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UK-based Phiorio's new album, The Perpetual Self Doubt, an introspective and enigmatic work recalling nocturnal melodies, half-recalled memories, late-night visions and cold sweats, is now out and awaits you in the player below.
Phiorio - for all his self-deprecating self-doubt - has impressively and confidently created his own sonic universe, cinema-of-the-mind, an intimate and singular authorial voice. It is, at times, a disquieting and eerie journey to embark upon, though the one you'll want to take again and again, hearing (and possibly hallucinating) new facets and details with every listen.
In a world - and an era - of much uncertainty and restriction, Phiorio took a step sideways, looking away from the somewhat rigid 'rules' of electronic club music - the prescribed BPMs, the restrictive palette of sounds, the universally agreed formula of minimal techno - to produce his most personal and surprising work in years. A bold new freedom was acquired in discarding the safety net of structural familiarity - the cold surgical steel of precision-made techno is here replaced with a more atmospheric, woozy and smudged aesthetic. There's still percussion but of a looser, more organic, less mechanistic flavour. The music is still propulsive, but not so much a futuristic shining chromium monorail, more of a late-night drive, an automotive drift through an unlit and slightly foreboding landscape. Nocturnal melodies, half-recalled memories, late-night visions, cold sweats - The Perpetual Self Doubt is an enigmatic fever dream populated by fluttering synths, corporeal basslines, wraithlike half-heard voices, ghost drones, miasmic echoes and ambiguous atmospheres.
Phiorio (real name Gianpiero Fiorin) started being interested in music in the late 80s when he discovered post-punk, new wave, gothic and industrial. He then developed an interest in electronic music, weird and bleepy electronica at first and then techno and house music. The London techno-free party scene allowed him to practice the skills of disk jockeying, play in various clubs around London and Europe and start releasing his early works on labels such as Leftroom Limited, MBF, Fantastic Friends and his own Metroline Limited. Link
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