Hexe Culto – Tumulto (Mini-Album – Tripalium Records)
Genre/Influences: Techno, Electro-Ambient.
Format: Digital, Cassette.
Background/Info: Hexe Culto is an Italian project set up by Francesco Rispoli aka ‘Bharika’ and visual artist Salvatore Delle Femmine. “Tumulto” is their debut work featuring eight songs and released by the French label Tripalium Records.
Content: The opening piece reveals retro sound treatments. We’re progressively discovering space-like electro spheres mixed with Technoid elements. The rhythm is dynamic, sometimes even a bit nervous and injected with melodic sequences plus ambient loops.
+ + + : I get the feeling Hexe Culto is still a bit in search of their sound identity. But they reveal interesting ideas running through “Artefatto” and “Tumulto” while the last cut “Schiele” is also worthy of examination. I noticed some exciting Acid elements running through both first mentioned cuts.
– – – : The work is missing a true climax.
Conclusion: I’m not saying this work sounds like a debut release, but Hexe Culto clearly has to improve different details of their production, but you can feel they have potential.
Best songs: “Artefatto”, “Tumulto”, “Schiele”.
Rate: 6½.
Listen to “DMS044 – Hexe Culto – Tumulto”:
Label: www.tripaliumcorp.com / www.facebook.com/tripaliumcorp
About Hexe Culto
Hexe Culto is an Italian audiovisual project formed by Francesco Rispoli, who also records as Bharika, and visual artist Salvatore Delle Femmine. Tripalium Corp describes their music as built from IDM, acid and amen breaks, with dilated and distorted ambient sounds.
“Tumulto” is their first release. It appeared on 5 January 2022 in the Tripalium Corp Disturbed Mutant Series as DMS044, with eight tracks running from “Atto” to “Schiele”. Domenico Crisci mixed the record, 4bstr4ck3r mastered it and Martina Maresca supplied the artwork. Discogs lists no further Hexe Culto album, only a 2023 remix for Diffuse Reality.
The label released two other titles Side-Line covered in the same weeks: the Acid Avengers split by Maelstrom, Locked Club and RLGN and the Pyrolatry EP by Volruptus.
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