stuntItalian loopsmith Giuseppe Ielasi returns to his own label Schoolmap for the second of his Stunt EP’s. These EP’s have been a bit of a departure from his early releases on Hapna and 12k, which have seen him ditch the soft guitar electroacoustica in favor of the jittery, loop based works that were introduced on his recent album Aix on 12k. ‘(another) Stunt’ references the likes of Steve Reich or Jan Jelinek’s work with vinyl sourced loops repeating with polyrhythmic intensity against each other. The tracks remain extremely static with the interest lying in the way that the different motifs and loops align each time in subtly shifting ways. Ielasi has already shown a great skill for processing sounds in his earlier works as well as great compositional craft on his albums for 12k. The Stunt EP’s displays a sensitivity to rhythm, pulse and repetition that lovers of tape music and turntablists alike will recognize immediately. He shows great respect to the sound sources by leaving them untouched and whilst the album doesn’t reach the perfectionist heights of ‘August’ (which for me is his finest work), it shows an artist refusing to be fixed to a single style or genre and who is exploring his craft with increasing finesse as each album comes along. -- simon harris
:: Giuseppe Ielasi/(another) Stunt - Schoolmap/A-Musik
