"takes your breath away"
The Swiss progressively drawn rock outfit with the interesting name, Contessa di GongGong, craft improvisational based jammy what they call "cineastic spacekraut" and listening to "El Camino" I will not argue with them. It is, in fact, not often that I hear an improvisation based track that has such a dense narrative. It sports an eclipsing funky bass and drum groove with percussion adding a worldly allure. There is a meditative, yet dangerous curve to the guitar rhythms and the ever winding composition turns, shifts, drops and floats with the precision of, dare I say, a Swiss timepiece. When you are solidly entranced in the groove, bass lines flourish and guitar strikes stab away creating an ethereal yet hard edged atmosphere. There is a cool breakaway with a voice talking in the background, it does sound incredibly filmic, like Hitchcock-ian espionage and then the track spins out (again) in wonderful ways, off on musical tangents and then back into the fray. No second is lost on this evocative journey.
Contessa di GongGong are Giuliano Sulzberger (guitars), Severin Graf (bass) and Mattia Ferrari (drums). Let them take your breath away.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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The swiss based trio «Contessa Di GongGong» describes their sound as cineastic spacekraut. The tracks are based on improvisations and involve consciously random developments.
Contessa di GongGong, Indie Electronic, Shoegaze / Dream Pop, Post Rock, "El Camino", cinematic rock, Switzerland based, Giuliano Sulzberger, Severin Graf, Mattia Ferrari
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