Released earlier this year on June 19th, 2k26 is "Elsewhen", the sophomore album piece by the Giuseppe Doronzo-lead experimental ensemble operating under the collective nom de guerre Futuro Ancestrale. The new album, released in collaboration via Unsounds Records and Tora Records, sees Doronzo, alongside Yannis Kyriakides, Andy Moor and Frank Rosaly, continuing their journey on a path which combines Modern Improvisation, this time with a more electronic-leaning angle, and ancient and ancestral traditions and instruments, oftentimes bound to a ritual context. This being said, the nine tracks and roughly 46 minutes spanning longplayer opens with "Eye Of The Hurricane" which sets the tone with deep and raw, inward-looking, at times almost PostRock-citing guitar works alongside electronic dronings and tribal desert percussions played late at night after a day spent under the influence of a scorching sun whereas the subsequently following "Ghostline" follows through with an adjacent vibe, yet weighs in a stripped down, nocturnal and ritualistic DarkJazz approach and, accordingly, rather scattered, yet complex percussive elements whilst "Scindone" introduces solemn, almost ecclesiastical choirs, subdued metallic percussions and Deep Jazz melancholia for late night listening. With the title track "Elsewhen" the small ensemble caters what can be described as a distinct atmospheric fusion of Minimal Music and ghostly PostJazz, the "Blind Needle" doesn't sting but at least makes things a little uncomfortable with its spiralling off-kilter brass lines and disrupting noise and distortion bursts before "Saturno" harks back to raw muscular, and somewhat doomed..., guitar exercises paired with Jazz Improv on a deeper cosmological scale. Furthermore "Underrun" presents an abrasive, braincell numbing maelstrom of intense Noize-backed movements and thundering drums almost drowning deep within the mix, providing a background for a seemingly EthioJazz-informed sax performance, "Falo" also appreciates the deep tonal movements of EthioJazz but transfers them to a much more rhythmic and agitated level which makes this tune our personal favorite on this longplay outing before the final "Driftlight" rounds things off on a brooding and danger-heralding tip within the grey area of Post-PostRock, introvert DoomJazz and electro-acoustic minimalism which evokes faint memories of the once Hausmusik-released Village Of Savoonga project for those who are old and aware enough to remember. Rather interesting. Go check.
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