Red Sky – Solo Musica A Riempirmi Gli Occhi EP

By RingMaster Review on March 25, 2015 • ( 0 )

What can we tell you about Red Sky? Well he is a masked guitarist/rapper from Milan, creating a web of creative adventure and imaginative sound. From the founding of his solo project in 2011, he has released one album, one single, and three EPs, each earning increasing acclaim and attention. In the third of those latter propositions, the latest release, he has also revealed a simply fascinating and magnetic new direction in sound and intent. The Solo Musica A Riempirmi Gli Occhi EP is a transfixing and compelling exploration which embraces the artist’s broadest landscape of imagination and flavour yet.

Red Sky initially began as an instrumental rock proposal and swiftly drew close attention with the Tra l’ombra e l’anima EP in 2011, awareness increasing with the release of debut album Origami the following year. The Origami RMX EP in 2013 kept the growing buzz around Red Sky going but revealed little of the new adventure and shift of intent to emerge in forthcoming songs and music. Solo Musica A Riempirmi Gli Occhi is the witness to and evidence of the exciting evolution and change in the Red Sky’s invention. Its six adventurous incitements merge the instrumental rock essences which lit its predecessors with new stirring strands of electronic imagination and rap bred enterprise. It is a captivating union which offers an open familiarity in some ways but fresh invention throughout.

It all starts with Il Prezzo, a short and riveting piece of atmospheric sound and persuasion. The piece magnetically shimmers from its first endearing touch, stroking ears with increasing potency as electronic and guitar crafted radiance embrace the imagination with a sultry ambience. Spoken vocals add to the brewing drama, though being delivered in Italian leaves their narrative and emotion unknown for us less enabled linguists. It is an engrossing entrance though which is continued by the following tempting of Cadono Giù (Freestyle N.1). A symphonic whisper coats its start but swiftly the song is a lively romp of electronic revelry and feisty rock flames. Equipped with irresistible spicy hooks and flowing synth bred flights of warm enterprise, the track immediately has ears and feet involved, gripping the imagination just as potently with its subsequent agitated adventure. There is a feel of The Kennedy Soundtrack to parts of the song whilst its sonic weaves embrace rich melodic and gothic metal theatre and vivacity, and with the sparkling guitar imagination having a whisper of Squidhead to it, the track easily enthrals.

Front Il Flauto floats in next, its opening flirty radiance skirted by darker shadows. It is a union which continues to court each other as the song develops, each aspect increasing in texture and depth as more instrumentation and creative intrigue gets involved. Vocals are also a prominent proposal within the track, their presence punchy and expressive within the thick melodic blaze around them. Rap and metal are no strangers in music and in the song they bring a recognisable offering yet within the maze of its fusion of imaginative symphonic and folk metal with classic and electro rock; everything takes on a whole new and invigorating adventure.

Next up is Neve which features the soaring tones of Ideogram vocalist Martina Ambruosi. It begins its rise with a sinister and cinematic melodic drama, keys providing a catchy and portentous coaxing that simply basks in emotion as a growing tapestry of sound and ideation blossoms around them. Red Sky and Ambruosi do not exactly duet in the song but entwine their vocal deliveries around that of the other, a highly flavoursome union matching the expressive and provocative music boiling up around them. Though not quite as gripping as its predecessor, the song is aural theatre impossible to tear away from.

A mellower croon of sound provides the mesmeric breath of Stelle, music and voice a warm hug on the senses as delicious strings and sparkling electronic endeavour provides visual colouring for the. The track entrances thoughts and appetite with sublime mastery before making way for the closing Finchè Morte Non Ci Separi, itself a fascination of diversely textured sound and exotic invention. Showing a worldly landscape which is constantly evolving through mysterious calms and raging symphonic blazes, the piece is as expansive as it is deeply intimate and an absorbing end to a thoroughly bewitching release.

Also featuring the scratching skills of Dj Zero Tx on certain songs, Solo Musica A Riempirmi Gli Occhi is one of those encounters which take you by surprise and easily breed a keen hunger for more. The new twists in sound and experimentation from Red Sky have created an impressive exploit loaded with the potential of even greater creative emprises ahead.

The Solo Musica A Riempirmi Gli Occhi EP is available now via Ronin Agency.

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RingMaster 25/03/2015

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