inlandempire#15
28/04/12
spazio concept // via forcella 7 // milano
The alter ego of musician Matt Hill, Umberto is a one-man band crafting horror score creep-scapes for the digital age. A true master of the horror film soundtrack aesthetic, his music is a hypnotic, all-consuming journey, reeling you into a foggy, neon-lit world of graveyards, stalkers, haunted houses, witches and blood-stained corpses. Evoking the unsettling progressive rock of Goblin and the sinister, dystopian synth-work of John Carpenter, his acclaimed releases have garnered considerable praise for their staggering, gothic take on italo disco and new-wave synth pop, recreating the brooding intensity of a Dario Argento soundtrack through the cyclical melodies and throbbing rhythms he shares with his closest contemporaries, Zombi and Gatekeeper
Alessandro Parisi, pordenonese classe 1985. Il suo esordio musicale si chiama “La Porta Ermetica”, un album Horror-Disco ispirato ad un monumento alchemico romano del XVI secolo. Alle spalle anche un singolo nella compilation “Urbi et Orbi III” della romana MinimalRome. Influenze esoteriche in un’elettronica di stampo analogico proposta live con voci dall’oltretomba ed evocazioni a civiltà passate. Definisce il suo sound un misto di Italo-Horror ed Ancient-Steampunk.