ear-cookie is thrilled to announce that our first and fresh digital release out today on bandcamp! CD coming soon！💿👂


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Matteo Traverso is an Italian composer, improviser, and sound artist based in Arnhem, Netherlands. This album served as both a self-indulgent exercise in introspection and a distraction during a vacuous period of his past-pandemic adult life. 

The sonic density of the compositions is immense, with modular signals excavating rabbit holes across diverse temporal realms, undergoing expansive spatial transformations in fleeting moments. Wandering oscillators phantom through, releasing saturated, serrated sound particles, cascading within Lovecraftian cosmic imagery. "Winter the Longest" was born at the first nights of the Ukrainian invasion, where he tried to capture the the bleakness of a snowy and sour landscape juxtaposed with the distant echoes of conflict. "Tundra, I Don't Know You," with the polyphonic digital synthesizer, he imagines an impossible journey with the Trans-Siberian railway and  visit  the Siberian steppes  up  to  the  Arctic  Circle, a landscape both desolate and bewildering...