WATCH THE VIDEO FOR "PROTOSTELLAR CORE | E4XUDC" on YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/24wfw4pf In EXU3DC, Baltimore-based sound designer and electronic innovator User Friendly, and New York virtuoso guitarist-composer Álvaro Domene come together to craft and embody a sound-world that is both strikingly intricate and emotionally resonant. This four-track release is a masterful confluence of digital precision, creativity, and organic expression, where synthesizers and electronic instruments intertwine with live guitar performance to create a listening experience that strikes as cutting-edge, visionary, cerebral and palpably human, through a dense and immersive journey that feels like much more than its modest length might suggest. At just four compositions, EXU3DC feels remarkably expansive, with each piece offering a vast wealth of mature ideas and sonic detail that invite repeated listening sessions, moving fluidly between and through different electronic and acoustic music traditions, glitch, ambient, avant-garde jazz, and even post-metal territories, resulting in a beautifully unpredictable dialogue, a back-and-forth where tension and release feel like the album’s heartbeat. At Iluso, we cannot recommend this music enough, and are eager to hear what comes next from the duo. Iluso Records, December 2024.
