Gentle electric guitar meanderings are somehow rendered distorted on the second installment of Stefano Pilia’s Last Days trilogy. The noise comes by way of amp hum and cheap recording technology, but remains relatively subtle, unable to mask the fact that this is actually quite beautiful. It’s the type of guitar noodling one can imagine late at night in a warm dark basement once everyone has decided they’re too tired to talk anymore. My ears tell me there’s two guitar tracks intertwining with lots of slowly bending notes. It’s 7″ format makes each piece brief considering this is the kind of sound you could listen to for hours in the right frame of mind and not notice time passing. The kind of unfocused noodling that can soundtrack a wandering mind as it philosophises to itself on the various meanings of the universe. Reminds me a bit of late 60s Pink Floyd in intimate, guitar only mode, which is always a good thing to these ears.
Adrian Elmer
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