Influences: Fading Somewhere Else With Morkebla & Dalhous

Music

Fading Somewhere Else is a monthly, two-hour radio show officiated by Alberto Rosso and Marc Dall. As Morkebla Rosso makes enigmatic soundscapes that on Ono-Sendai Cyberspace – his latest for Cologne imprint Baroc – employed preternatural ambient and fragmentary noise for visions of alternative states; vivid projections contained within other raves, other rooms, other landscapes. Dall’s primary explorations meanwhile, have been given a distinctively uncanny voice in Dalhous, a project manifesting the provocative anti-psychology ideas of RD Laing in refined electronic compositions that sit somewhere between the hauntological intent of the Ghost Box label, the hallucinatory dread of Roman Polanski’s psychological thrillers and a broader church of tensile neo-noir atmospherics.

For their regular appearance on Resonance FM, Rosso and Dall explore their kindred interest in ‘unconscious states of self’ offering a psychotropic orientation into a radiophonic twilight zone where Delia Derbyshire sits alongside rarefied horror soundtracks, intriguing interludes and diverting segues come courtesy of Tod Dockstader and Else Marie Pade and other diverse contemporary presences loom out of the depths, including, but not limited to, the likes of Blackest Ever Black and Alessandro Cortini. Although the selection varies this gives a good idea of what to expect when Rosso and Dall preside over the airwaves. Theirs is a Radio 4 broadcast gone Lynchian, a graveyard shift given 3am eternality, a séance through the virtue of signals.

With these respective four track selections and accompanying explanations, Rosso and Dall provide a concise introduction to the ambitious conceptual premise of the show. The first four belong to Morkebla, the following Dalhous.

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2814 - ????

When I listened to the 2814 record for the first time I was caught by a somehow incomprehensible feeling. I felt like I was walking in a rainy metropolis in the night among people I did now know and never will, the lights were full of flashing lights and people, the rain kept falling. This is music for the future that will come. Listening to ???? is like taking a cab in a sad cyberpunk novel, watching the lanscape from the window and without knowing where to go.

2814 - ????

When I listened to the 2814 record for the first time I was caught by a somehow incomprehensible feeling. I felt like I was walking in a rainy metropolis in the night among people I did now know and never will, the lights were full of flashing lights and people, the rain kept falling. This is music for the future that will come. Listening to ???? is like taking a cab in a sad cyberpunk novel, watching the lanscape from the window and without knowing where to go.
Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No.1

Satie is my favourite pianist. Everything he has composed is still much more actual than anything else. His Gymnopédies are in my opinion his best compositions. This is music to be listened to alone.
Alessandro Cortini - Scappa

Few months ago, I heard everybody was talking about Cortini’s solo work, but I did not check it. It’s one of those things you say “ok I’ll have to listen to it”, but then you don’t. We shared the stage together a few months ago in Italy and I could not listen to his live properly, unfortunately. Then, I unexpectedly bumped into this track on youtube, which is for me one of the best crescendo sequence ever.
Forgotten Woods - The Principle And The Whip

If I had to choose one of my favorite band ever, I’d chose FW, the main reason is that they are able to change their style as chameleons. This track is an example of what I am saying, black metal? pop for unpopular people? Whatever.
Alessandro Cortini - Rovina

There’s something so beautiful about this track by Cortini. Like most of his other tracks it is instantly recognisable by it’s predictable structure, which is in no way a criticism of his music. The textural quality created by the lofi recording adds as much stark beauty to the music as the basic melancholy synth tones themselves, adding to a timelessness that never wears thin.
Night Of The Living Dead - Track 7 - Talking Points (Correct Title: Boarding School)

I’ve listened to this soundtrack more than I’ve watched the film and that says something as it was one of my favourite films growing up. There’s a real sense of place to this soundtrack that perfectly captures the isolated setting of the film, with a real foreboding sense of horror that sets the mood. It’s not just background music, it warrants a fascination all on it’s merits.
Harmonia & Eno '76 - Atmosphere

You’ll find the seeds of a lot of modern day electronic music in anything by Harmonia or their other respected projects. Full of grainy, unrecognisably warped sounds, the music of Harmonia seems to operate in a world onto itself.. They were ahead of the curve with their early, now legendary records that continue to inspire me to explore the endless musicality that is possible when working within an electronic framework.
Safe (1995)

The soundtrack to Safe features a paranoid beauty that perfectly mimics the film in which it scores. I find music interesting that says one thing but in the context or it’s conceived precept alludes to something else. The soundtrack demonstrates there’s so much more to conveying a sense of atmosphere or mood than just to adhere to the obvious, there’s a whole spectrum of different shades to be found amidst the obvious sentiments.