Four albums over a three-year period, a partnership that has become a fertile synergy in a short space of time. It was much more than a simple collaboration established by Andrea “Mingle” Gastaldello and Cristiano Deison, a profound union of ideas and visions nourished by the desire to seek different solutions by putting themselves out there. Eleven years after the publication of “Everything Collapse(d)”, four years after Mingle's premature death, their joint discography is enriched with a final piece fished out from the archive.
The album in question is the reinterpretation of the debut work, conceived and finalized a few months after its release at the invitation of Gastaldello. The goal was to strip the original material, eliminating refinements and stratifications to highlight the melodic cores of the tracks. A driven reductionism, which leaves the piano textures and electronic stitching necessary to navigate in an evanescent substrate tending towards silence. An operation that amplifies the emotional impact of landscapes shaped to give substance to a sense of inextinguishable melancholy and desolation, reaching an essential form in which absence further echoes.
This is demonstrated by the conversion of the dark-ambient/post-industrial intersection of “Settled Apathy (Hospital)” into a delicate modern-classical sonata tinged with synthetic roughness, and the stripping of “Nessun Desiderio (decimaction)” of its obsessive pulsations reiterates it. Everything becomes rarefied, diluting the suffocating shadows of the beginning, without affecting the virtuous interpenetration of kinematics and cracking that made the Deison & Mingle brand unique.
02/12/2025
Antonio Santini for SANREMO.FM
