Lehel P - Ales Iacta Est
Alea Iacta Est means "The Die Is Cast," which essentially means that we have reached a point of no return. This mysterious album has been made by a Lehal P (Emanuele Pescia), and as far as I can see (On Discogs), this might just be his debut. This debut has been released by Italian Industrial Ölocaust Records, both on CD and on cassette.
The kind of futuristic dark-regy cover-artwork shows a...... a shape in darkness, with something circular behind it. Inside the booklet, we get to see his equipment, and an info list regarding the equipment used. The recording itself is a live-recording, which was recorded at the Hamlet Synthesized Festival in Castiglione Olona (Italy) on July 1st 2024. The album contains 10 tracks, 37+ minutes total.
The first track is an intro. Starts with a smooth synth-drone, with a arabic´esque flute playing over it. Giving it an ancient desert/nomadic touch. Classic synth-keys comes in aswell, revealing a slowly built cinematic mood.
The second track, Privo Moviment,o slowly fades in with the Intro, adding a nice atmospheric looped bass playing (real bass, I think). Nice ambient-electronica technoid/glitch rhythms and sounds are added, giving the track that nice futuristic feel. Looped guitar in there aswell, almost having a sort of jazzy kraut-rock feel here. Similar to Brian Eno in his 90s techno/electronica-ambient era. Beautiful sound, beautiful atmosphere. All is very good sofar.
The third track, Interludio #1, goes straight into another place. More in the field of space-ambient here, in space, and in between the planets. A cool-sounding trumpet of some kind, heavenly and shimmering synth-work... sounds like something good is on the way.
We jump straight into track 4, called Secondo Movimento. Which continues the sounds described above, slowly evolving into... ceremoniously melodic and dancy techno. With lots of lovely mechanical glitchy sounds, a perfect fusion between man and machine. The melody and the rhythms are absolutely breathtaking! This track could have been a huge dance hit back in the day of Faithless. Actually better than Faithless, sort of closer to the techno stuff by Norwegian Ulver.
Tracks 5 and 6, offcourse called Interludio #2 and Terzo Movimento. Slowly getting into deep ambient areas and back into glitchy electronica with trip-hop rhythms. Something is clattering, deep piano keys with drops of cold water in the night dropping down on your forehead. Noir mood in some metropolitan city in the future. There is also the sound of a reversed water-pibe aswell.
There are a lot of reasons for me to continue to review the rest of the album, but I can assure you that the rest of it is a treat! A storytelling vibe with this, like I said earlier... a detective-movie set in the far future, maybe on some city located on the surface of the Moon... or Mars even. I´ve heard it... I don´t know... lost count... maybe 20 times by now, and I am still returning to it. Why? Cause it´s a great story told in sound, melodies, and rhythms. A classic melodic ambient-techno treat, everything is so damn well done and crispy!
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