aaamusic | On 30, Oct 2011

La Jovenc (real name Giovanni Dal Monte) is an avant-garde Italian electronic producer. Perverse Or Polymorphous, his experimental electronica and trip hop album, was self released on Monday 3 October 2011.

To some, this album will not be much fun. They’ll feel it contains difficult music they’ll never be able to appreciate, no matter how hard they try. Or, they might decide there was not much to understand in the first place.

To others it will be intriguingly bizarre and inventive with fascinating odd textures, broken vocals, acid beats and a poetic stream of consciousness. Their praise will be endless for this weird and wonderful music. Barry Adamson who composed soundtracks for several David Lynch films has called the album “superb”.

 

There’ll also be optimistic listeners who’ll feel they’ve discovered something promising which sadly remains unchanged and stays flat. The music appears to never quite take off and remains unfinished. The unusual echoing Sicilian folk on Tanger-Algeciras and the harsh electro beat of Come in from Out of the Rain might be examples.

 

Is the album trying too hard to be strange? Perhaps we should just be open minded in tolerating other people’s tastes.

Anthony Weightman