UNCONSCIOUS MOTIFS

Post Rock/Math rock • Italy

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Unconscious Motifs biography
UNCONSCIOUS MOTIFS is the first experience as a solo artist of the Italian guitarist, composer, and producer Antonio MAFFEI.

Antonio starts his adventure in music in early 2000, playing guitar in various short-lived Italian rock bands. In 2011, he moves to the UK, where he dedicates himself to the study of humanity, delving into philosophy, anthropology, psychology and other intellectual disciplines, but eventually realizing the deep necessity for having more arts and music in his life.

With the project UNCONSCIOUS MOTIFS, Antonio dives back into music with more awareness of his place in the world. Inspired by his life experiences and studies, he aims to convey profound meanings through music?knowledge that cannot be explained through words, but only grasped by delving into the unconscious. In this sense, Unconscious Motifs is music that manifests itself autonomously. Like a dream, it takes the musician by hand and guides him in a mysterious quest.

Not by chance, UNCONSCIOUS MOTIFS blends together various progressive, post-rock, and ambient elements in order to put the listener in a dream-like state. Some of these elements are borrowed from Anathema, Novembre, and Kauan. Also, the sophisticated storytelling of Opeth or Porcupine Tree and the intricate arrangements of bands such as The Contortionist and Earthside are often referenced in the work of UNCONSCIOUS MOTIFS.

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The Flowing Soul
2022

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The Flowing Soul
Unconscious Motifs Post Rock/Math rock

Review by Steve Conrad

Water. Spirit. Transmutation.

Water- one of those substances that is so ubiquitous, so necessary, so omnipresent that it's treacherously easy to take it for granted.

In this, his all-instrumental debut release talented Italian multi-instrumentalist Antonio Maffei, AKA UNCONSCIOUS MOTIFS, serves up a thirst-inducing, thirst-quenching ocean of conceptual post-rock-influenced progressive metal.

The concept? The Water Spirit begins a musical journey of transformation. Water takes many forms- in this EP, rainfall, dancing river meets surging sea into oceanic depths, and transmuting into human form.

Only to die, and as human corpse is carried by Octopus to the surface and gently laid to rest on the sands of the oceanic beach.

Spirit

We find, if we allow ourselves to dream and to meditate, that the music, ranging from gentle acoustic guitar patterns to full-on crunchy complex power riffs, from dreamy synths and keyboard sounds to discordant guitar chords to melodic lead over clean picked guitar patterns, draws us to consider the MEANING of water.

The SYMBOLISM of Octopus. The 'deep dive' into self, into emotion, into search for essence, foundation, for Spirit.

Water- cleansing, forming and shifting and changing. Spirit- meaning, purpose, sensation, coherence in the midst of chaos and change.

Transmutation

How DOES life evolve? The gentlest water surging and flowing wears deep traces in hard rock formations and leaves long-lasting impressions.

Fall belly first on the smoothest water and find yourself bruised and perhaps fatally wounded. Then you too are changed, cleansed, bathed, transformed.

The Octopus itself is a symbol of change, as it seems to transmute- shifting colors based on its surroundings, creativity, intelligence, living even when limbs are removed.

Water. Spirit. Transmutation- Antonio Maffei- as UNCONSCIOUS MOTIFS- pours himself into this EP, showing a range of musical incarnations, depicting in deep waves the mysterious, life-giving, life-taking power of the ubiquity of water.

My rating- 3.5 liquid forms.

Thanks to dAmOxT7942 for the artist addition.