A new release from Thomas DeLio comes through as a double album that is comprised of compositions from 2005 through 2024 and spans a massive 46 tracks in length although, there are interludes and pieces of music that are a minute long or shorter.
The anti-paysage record takes on a unique musical experience and focuses on precise sound structures that are open to different interpretations.
It's kind of a beautiful concept and when you listen through this release you start to get a feel for the emotional value that some of these songs can trigger for the listener.
Each piece of music is short or long as it is, can make you feel a little bit different, or can make you think of a different situation.
Again, everyone who listens to this may interpret each individual piece of music a little differently and I think that's the point.
The first set of pieces is called "sound / shivering / silence" and those are pieces that are sort of spacious, open, widened, and leave a lot of room for those spaces of emptiness to take place so that when the instrumentation comes back in you've had time to let it all resonate.
Some of this is focused more on percussion and sound while others are focused on note reverberation and vibration.
As the album unfolds you get piano pieces that can feel sporadic but evoke certain aspects of surprise and hot at times. Some of these pieces feel like floating through a bad dream.
Almost all of the pieces on this record feel like they came from the score of several films. I enjoyed the experimental and outside-the-box approaches that these songs take on because they're able to deliver different sounds and landscapes for you to take in the way you want.
It's a very unique record and again, there's a lot to soak in as the release is 46 tracks long and takes shape as a whole really bringing together DeLio's artistic vision if you will.
This is a unique vision that gives you little glimpses of his own personality and some inner emotion that is all being transposed into sound and I think this is where some of the brilliance comes in with composers like this one.
As a composer, DeLio has been working with soloist chamber ensembles and orchestras for quite some time and is also noted for some of his work in computer music.
So, you can see that he is connected with sound whether it be electronic natural instrumentation, spacious, vast, cinematic, orchestral, or anything else.
Thomas DeLio finds ways to connect with sound and uses those sounds whether electronic or vibrational to expand thought and again, let people interpret that as they will.
This was quite a deepening and layered record that took me a while to soak in properly.
When you can and after you get a grasp of the first several pieces, you'll settle into the aesthetic that this double album gives off. Once you do, please hang tight for the rest of it because it's quite a unique and in-depth experience.
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