1STR1C3 - Brainscape

Sud Afternoon Tapes newest release titled Brainscape is full on gorgeous. This also could be the first physical release for the artist working under the project 1STR1C3, a producer and composer based in Milan, Italy. And after some internet clicking, found two (digital) ep releases. From Hills in 2021 (self released?) and Fastridebadfinish in 2022 on the Milan label, 51Beats. So to get straight to it, Sud Afternoon Tapes only has twenty in this edition and more than half are already gone. Get to it, if you like tapes and you want something beautiful and compelling. 

 

 Other than the spoken word in the opening selection, Brainscape is all electronic and instrumental. Ambient electronic pathways opening as listeners glide with heighten curiosity. Each sonic gently sweeping elbow switching back to collect drifting thoughts. The second track "Apparso" lifts us from the mundane, carries thoughts and feelings to places beyond our worn tracks. 1STR1C3 has patience and deft creativeness, not just an ambient meditation composition, more introspection into the details. How sounds work together, echoing rhythms from multifarious sources. Fascinating calls from a dextrous conscious, from interweaves rich with warm energy. Slight rhythmic turbulence and misty lengths placid drift, these selections with Brainscape pull us most compellingly in. Then "Risveglio", body hairs flare and the mind races to things it knows. Ultimately listeners take a final chill with "Titoli di Coda", the last and longest selection of Brainscape. A capricious lounge burner compared to both mood and body of the composition as a whole.

 

As mentioned, released on Sud Afternoon Tapes out of Monza, Italy. Very limited edition of twenty cassettes with only nine remaining at the time this is written. Please take a moment and really listen, such a well composed feeling.  I did see Davide noted as 1STR1C3. 

 

 

 

Links

Sud Afternoon Tapes - bandcamp