“Diary of an amateur musician”
Where classical structure meets the infinite: Dino DiMuro's Fill It Up With Regular tears through with grungy lead guitars, wild proggy keyboard excursions and Beefheartian crunch — a vinyl-ready statement featuring stadium-sized vocals and African guest performances. Song for a Gorgeous Blonde's Till tornet övergivet charts ambient regrets of a shattered marriage through drums, strings and emotional drama, veering from heavy-duty ambient to a rock finale that might have visited Strawberry Fields. Jav Grojas's Ocean of Planck Foam navigates twin conceptual currents — ocean and quantum uncertainty — in a neoclassical-electronica mode, while his Eridanus Dreaming conjures blurry, mysterious dreamscapes around a distant planet where reality and imagination may be indistinguishable. His Strolling to Nowhere completes the journey with neoclassical-jazz piano pieces tracing morning, noon and evening across a half-real, half-initiatory road.
“A 'truly unhinged' collection of B-sides and covers left on the cutting room floor of DeMello's 2022 crossover pop LP 'Confetti in a Coalmine'.”