Heath "Escape Lounge" LP

Milan’s mutant chamber pop composer Heith traverses wormholes of Italian renaissance music, trip hop and future AI folk-pop in the uncanny otherworlds of their 2nd album for PAN. The past informs the present in diffracted waves of inspiration on ‘Escape Lounge’, whose imaginative explorations of generic downbeat and etheric interstices expand on ideas registered with 2022’s ‘X, wheel’. Its dozen parts feel out sepulchral recesses of contemporary atmospheric musick where prog, folk, 4th world jazz and classical feed into pop and ambient via the slippery prisms of up-to-the-moment software and mindsets that chime with PAN's roster of influential outsiders.  Daniele Huerrini aka Heith notably now heads up his own electro-acoustic ensemble, writing for and producing the likes of Alexander Izzi (drums), Aase Nielsen (saxophone), and Leonardo Rubboli (flute), who supply rich instrumental colour and timbres to the ringleader’s electronics, as heard in a lead single of fluttering vocoder and chamber jazz licks locked to ruggedest downstrokes, ‘You In Reverse’, and teased out into stranger permutations as the album unfolds.