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01. Giuseppe Ielasi/Jack Sheen - V1
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02. Giuseppe Ielasi/Jack Sheen - V2
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03. Giuseppe Ielasi/Jack Sheen - V3
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14. Giuseppe Ielasi/Jack Sheen - The Vestige
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ARTIST
IELASI/JACK SHEEN, GIUSEPPE
TITLE
The Vestige
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
BLACK TRUFFLE
CATALOG #
BT 132LP
BT 132LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
8/22/2025
The Vestige
is the first fruit of a new intergenerational collaboration between
Giuseppe Ielasi
, a quietly prolific key contributor to the European experimental music scene for over twenty years, and
Jack Sheen
, a young composer-conductor-sound artist from Manchester whose recent projects have seen him moving seamlessly from enigmatic chamber music composition and installations to conducting the
London Symphony Orchestra
. Their materials and working methods differ significantly, with Ielasi having focused for many years on electro-acoustic techniques alongside his ongoing commitment to the guitar, and Sheen primarily composing for traditional instruments. More important, though, is what they share: a fascination with what Sheen calls "mysterious, liminal musical material," using irregular repetition and cyclical forms to create structures at once alive with activity and almost static, as well as a rigorous exploration of spatial diffusion and the interaction of sound event and environment. Working individually with a library of acoustic instrument sounds from Sheen's recent projects and Ielasi's guitar, the pair eventually met for several days at Ielasi's home studio in Monza, sculpting the fourteen pieces that make up
The Vestige
. Like Ielasi and Sheen's solo works, the record shows an exquisite attention to details of sequencing and pacing, the sound palette and compositional approach consistent throughout while each piece asserts its own identity. Ielasi and Sheen sketch dimensions of the ambiguous space, where distinctions between pitch and noise, repetition and irregularity, electronic and acoustic remain pointedly unclear.
The Vestige
shows an unusual degree of attention to frequency range as a compositional tool, something it shares with the hyper-subtle variations of Ielasi's electroacoustic works and the deliberately "unbalanced" midrange-heavy ensemble of
Sheen's Sub
. Here, movement between episodes is as much about adding or removing a frequency band as it is about changes in density, harmonic content, or instrumental texture. Tracks are marked by the sudden appearance of subbass or exaggeration of high frequencies in otherwise similar material, contributing to the sense that these fourteen pieces are like different views on a scene that listeners can never quite see clearly. While calling up a range of past music, from the early works of
Rolf Julius
to
Simha Arom
's recordings of layered polyrhythms embedded in the background sounds of central African villages to the temporal distortions and layered hiss of
DJ Screw
, the alluring and disconcerting world of
The Vestige
is entirely its own.
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