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| 2010 | "[...] the music of Francesco Dillon and Riccardo Dillon Wanke is far from improvised, it embraces the sort of instrumentation common in improvisational settings. [...] It opens with a dialogue between a down-tuned guitar and eerie cello plucking in the first track, "mind the gap, pt. 2." Following this comes one of the most powerful pieces of the album on the second track, "final del juego," where field recordings become taken over with anxious cello strumming and an intense, droning guitar's reverb, which comes to dominate the track by it's close.[...]", Darius Sabbaghzadeh, hairentertainment.com, 09/2010 "[...] Francesco Dillon al violoncello e agli oggetti e Riccardo Wanke alla chitarra, al basso e all'elettronica si firmano Amuleto per "11h15: Local Weather Forecast", dove l'improvvisazione si tinge di colori neominimalisti, le note si allungano come droni, si dilatano e si ricompattano muovendosi come un corpus unico solo occasionalmente punteggiato di field recordings di voci sparse e alieni tocchi di chitarra (Mind the gap pt2), cosicché la musica assume sembianze da sinfonia lievissimamente rumorosa (la splendida Final del Juego) o radura intimista (Rise and Fall of Western Empire) bagnandosi talvolta di un retrogusto folkie (Mind the gap pt.1 e la splendida Cani Neri); senz'altro uno dei titoli migliori del box. [...]"Stefano I. Bianchi, Blow Up, 09/2010 |
| "[...]Listening to the cello and electric guitar duo Amuleto, you hear texturally oriented pieces, flavoured with field recordings that open up like memory spaces within the duo's droning atmospheres.[...] Those mentioned so far are firmly on the plus side."Julian Cowley, The Wire #319/sept10, 09/2010 |
