Started in 2017 with the publication of “Falling Time”, Martina Betti's production path has been characterized by the constant search for a lexicon increasingly less influenced by cumbersome references to arrive at a more personal declination of her ambient proposal. A linear path that preferred gradual change to sharp turns, finding its best form with the publication of the fourth album by Shedir.
The pre-eminent emotional impact, the co-presence of antithetical elements and the gaseous consistency of the stratifications are still an essential part of this new sonic journey, here managed with a cinematic attitude that has never been so relevant. Each trace, potentially expandable without limit, renounces being a complete plot to become a slow, unstoppable mutating undertow through which to give substance to the anxieties of being in the world, to the uncertainty of the perception of oneself.
It is in the construction of the sequence that each chapter finds completeness, in being incorporated into a rigid structure, marked by the alternation of dilated flows and interludes, capable of absorbing and making every nuance coherent. Each nebula of drones modulated by electronic fragments and low frequencies, extended to become an immersive soundscape, corresponds to a pause, an embryo of a different nature – from the electroacoustic nightmare of “Wanderhaze” to the modern classical spectral of “Soulbird” – which acts as an element of decompression. Irisarri's solemn ascensions, as well as the harshness of the best English are reduced to faint occasional references, leaving it up to Shedir's vision to direct the architecture of an introspective sound, incisive as it has never been.
24/10/2025
Antonio Santini for SANREMO.FM
