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Esse Pi Enne - Chamber Music

Esse Pi Enne - Chamber Music

€27,00 EUR
€27,00 EUR
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All Night Flight - LP
UK, 2025
Post-Rock / Indie / Leftfield

Completely relevant in these troubled times, Chamber Music is a very personal interpretation of turn-of-the century post-rock and instrumental music by Turin underground’s active agent, Stefano Murgia. At home on ANF, Esse Pi Enne’s first LP has that same consistency as Jemima’s debut album - released on the Manchester label just a couple months ago - drawing similarly horizontal and slightly unsettling landscapes: moors, marshes and dreary plains under unequivocally low, grey skies . Recalling so much of the stuff we’re really into at the moment: Labradford, Hood, Crescent, Rachel's early Kranky or Thrill Jockey releases and Talk Talk’s final opuses. And just like albums by the aforementioned acts, Esse Pi Enne's Chamber Music is a record without beginnings nor ends, infinitely flipped over. Another brilliant entry in the All Night Flight catalogue!

"Turin is a city of crumbing facades and fading surfaces. A memorial to regal splendour and industrial boom.  Behind every door is a different world. Pass through a grand double-door in the southern part of the city into a quiet courtyard, through into a small room with a high ceiling and cracked white coving. The room holds a modest studio set up, everything laid out as if the occupant just left.  It’s a workshop, littered with blank cassettes, sepia-tinted journals and unidentified family scrapbooks. This is where Esse Pi Enne works to graft sounds from the past onto the present moment.  

The Record opens with church bells ringing and the sounds of the markets waking up against tentatively picked open strings.  Layers are added, a single bass note and the sound of the room, a thudding rhythm coalescing into half a song sung in a shy, introverted voice reminiscent of bands you forgot you even liked.  It’s a record of simple yet peculiar arrangements, space is left for questions to form.  Blunt sounds and radio static from another place and time, histories merge without explanation.  Chamber music is a fitting title for music that feels introverted, domestic and out of sight, its charm lies in its mystery, tangents and touch-points left unexplained.  

It's unintentionally aloof yet occasionally tender.  A product of its Piedmont surroundings yet mixed in Manchester for extra glum, evocative of Klang, mid-period Fall, Mickeranno, Pink Reason, A.C Marias, Pickle Factory and Call Back The Giants. Chamber music opens up the door but leaves us guessing." (M/M - wholesale: shops, contact us)


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