Berlin-based electronic music label and underground heavyweight, Inversions are back in full force with Catanian producer Toto Chiavetta providing IV80.
The EP titled ‘Harmony Somewhere’ is everything Innervsion fanatics have come to know and love. The 6 track EP featuring label mates Trikk and Idd Aziz demonstrates the old spark so often associated with Dixon and Ame as well as a distant, almost vague but ultimately compelling sound pushing the labels evolution and keeping it at the forefront of underground music.
‘The Core’ the first track on the EP starts with a very deliberate and intense silence, with the track quickly changing direction when a mixture of percussive elements and shutter effects enter the mix in a way that only Chiavatta could deliver so succinctly. This track is unrelenting, complex and so refreshing.
For us the best track of the EP comes with the collaboration with Afro-house vocalist Idd Aziz in some of the most resounding and impactful minutes of the EP. Kenyan-born and Norway-based, Aziz fits into the musical journey perfectly, lending soulful vocals that are smooth, subtle and soothing, and when pinned immediately against track two, is a breath of fresh air, or rather fresh water pummelled by roaring tribal elements. ‘Dzukulu’ starts of fierce – hip-battering drums and riveting percussion raise temperature from the get-go. Machines don’t reign the corridors of the Congan watercourse, from which the surrounding forests thrive off of, it is the decorous strike of the drum pinging the deferential strum of the heart beating, and just that crevice somewhere, where harmony exists and governs.
As with all the tracks on the EP Chiavetta has nailed each and every one of the tracks on the EP so that they come across intimate, well executed and ultimately build on a story.
