Ben Seretan
Allora
83(B+)--90点相当
高得点が出ている。
個人的にはちょっとだるいなぁという印象
For five years, Ben Seretan—a musician who lives in the Climax hamlet of Coxsackie, New York—has been calling Allora his “insane Italy record.” The word “allora” translates to “at that time” in Italian; Seretan and his band (Nico Hedley, Dan Knishkowy, Matt Bordin) made the thing on tape in Montebelluna across three July days in 2019. This idea that Seretan perhaps lingered across the cobblestone of bel paese, busking in Lugano and taking baths in apricots and sleeping on mattresses of focaccia the summer before summer couldn’t quite exist for millions of us—it all sounds so wonderful and one-of-a-kind and so long ago. Allora sounds like only two of those things, as Seretan shepherds his listeners through seven songs that, while they are already, technically, dated, arrive fresh and bewitching. It’s a guitar record that refuses to be categorized as such. Instead, Allora is one with the flora and fauna of drones, mangled horns and stone-cold rock ‘n’ roll. It answers to detail-driven emotion and blankets itself in communal tenderness.
カリフォルニア生まれでニューヨークを拠点に活動するSSW、楽器奏者
ベン・セレタン
セレタンの2020年の名高いアルバム『Youth Pastoral』より前に録音されたということ
Youth Pastoral
