Chris Ianuzzi – Maze (Album – Satellite Symphonics)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Minimal-Electro.
Format: Digital.
Background/Info: Chris Ianuzzi is an artist I remember from I, Synthesist. He also releases music under his own name.
Content: It’s hard to define and label “Maze”. It however sounds as an Experimental work in Electronics reminding me of Sleep Chamber for the cold sphere hanging over the songs. But I also experience the work as a contemporary format of Psychic TV. There’s something ‘retro’-like running through the songs which has been transposed into a contemporary format. Instrumental- and sung vocals have been achieved. The last cut even has something Techno-driven.
+ + + : No compromises and far away from established standards seem to be the sonic philosophy of this album. Chris Ianuzzi composes Electronic music from ‘out of the box’. It sounds a bit like songs composed in a sonic lab. It’s quite diversified but revealing different noticeable cuts. “Sweet Over Time” is my personal favorite reflecting passion and vintage sound treatments.
– – – : The work remains however Experimental and maybe missing a bit coherence now and then.
Conclusion: If an alien had to compose Electronic music he for sure would sound like Chris Ianuzzi; extradimensional!
Best songs: “Sweet Over Time”, “Maze”, “Lonesome Highway Superstar”.
Rate: 7.
Artist: www.facebook.com/i.synthesist
About Chris Ianuzzi
Chris Ianuzzi is a composer and songwriter from New York. He records under his own name and under the alias I, Synthesist.
The first album under that alias, “Avalanche”, was issued on CD in 2003 by A Satellite Symphonics Production, and the self-titled “I, Synthesist” was self-released the same year. “Art Of Survival” followed on Electric Fantastic Sound in 2007, and Satellite Symphonics released the CDr album “Somewhere & Everywhere” in 2012.
“Maze”, reviewed here, appeared as a digital album on Satellite Symphonics and moves between experimental electronics, minimal-electro and, on its closing track, a techno pulse.
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