Giona Vinti – Nox Lux
3.28.16 by Ian Franklin

Uneasy synth chords swirl back and forth in the opening moments of Nox, the A side’s lone track on “Nox Lux” by Giona Vinti, released this past month on Old Bicycle Records. Flashes of frequency modulation dance across the unbroken wave of tone. The mood: a pervasive sense of dread. Syrupy blips pop into focus and squeeze between the disorienting walls of synth swirl. Clanging bell tones knock together in an off-balance dance, the precursor to an all out freakout of heavily modulated skronk shuffle. Slips and pops and distorted bleeps bounce around in a steady barrage of digital(?) noise. Fragments of vocal samples leak into the picture, foreboding and separated from context.

Lux swirls forward on the B side with rushes of textured vocals and low zone feedback spirals. The mood lifted and bright with gong splashes. A flurry of dense patches of synth like blocks jump through the melody, returned to a slightly somber skip. Perhaps it’s expertly trilled guitar in sections? Tough to say for sure but it’s undoubtedly heavy. This is the type of light that blinds you. Switching between ping ponged bells and drops of distorted guitar and synth the melody drifts in and out of consciousness carrying the listener with it. Swirling and flying closer to the sun before drifting off in to burning light.

Like the Stefan Christoff / Post Mortem split, this is housed in a Brad Pack and features some killer graphic art from Maria Dolorosa De La Cruz, and some words on the project release and how it came about from label head Vasco Viviani on a fold out insert. Same minimal imprinting on the grey-brown shells for this edition of 75, still available from the label.