CARTA MALABARICA

With only one studio album released in 2013, CLESSIDRA might already be relegated to Italian post rock history. Luckily this is a fascinating artifact, an all instrumental album with many influences from its principal sub-genre, but subtly incorporating mysterious and temptingly foreboding aspects of world music, chiefly from the middle and far east, as befits the real place names in the tracklist.

The rhythms are consistently the drivers here, accompanied by generally scant, almost minimalist guitar and keyboard touches best acquitted in "Gobekle Tepi", with "Baghdad's Battery" ,"Tunguska Part 1", and "Giza" being nearly of comparable standard. The keys often serve as another base instrument in that sense. Sound effects include canines, insects and human voices sans substrate, which form and dissolve as phantoms. Unfortunately one track ("The Kadath") is essentially a drum solo with equally atonal diversions, and "Ek Balam" is a failed attempt at weaving Frippian lead guitar into the end product.

While its legend is modest, I still recommended "Carta.." for those who enjoy post rock and world music and are tired of being force fed clumsy takes of both.

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