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Last year, Your EDM announced the respected ambient house and trance artist Gianfranco Pescetti would be returning to EDM in what can only be called a re-debut. The first teaser track \u201cThe Wake\u201d off his then upcoming album, Daystar Nocturnal<\/em>, heralded a new era for Pescetti, not only time-wise but in terms of his style. Now with three more tracks teasing the album for nearly a year, Daystar Nocturnal <\/em>has confirmed his re-emergence into music, with even more of a focus on that all-important ambient production.<\/p>\n When he originally debuted in 2014 with his first album, Love Is Rain, <\/em>the promise of Pescetti\u2019s production talent was certainly already there and wildly loved by his fans. It wasn\u2019t, however, strictly electronic and certainly not EDM. More of a melding of indie pop, dream pop and ambient electronica, tracks from the album and the subsequent pop punk hit \u201cA Fall Apart\u201d were billed with other modern and vintage fusion acts like Tycho<\/a>, Washed Out<\/a> and the Cocteau Twins<\/a>. Not a bad number to count oneself amongst, Pescetti nonetheless took a decade-long break from releasing solo work, to the chagrin of the substantial fanbase he\u2019d built with Love Is Rain. <\/em>It seems, however, that he never stopped producing, only honing his craft.<\/p>\n As an apparent teaser to the teasers, Pescetti released a re-work of the jazz classic \u201cFly Me to the Moon\u201d in early 2023, a chill house bop which instantly showed that he\u2019d been working on his electronic production lo these ten years. From there, \u201cThe Wake\u201d and its subsequent album lead-ups, \u201cStopless,\u201d \u201cBe My Ghost\u201d and \u201cClownspunk\u201d also showed that Pescetti didn\u2019t plan to stick to just one genre of electronica, even though the indie pop vibes and vocals of Love Is Rain<\/em> were largely gone. While \u201cThe Wake,\u201d a mostly ambient breakbeat track had Pescetti\u2019s flare for vintage synths and talent on the bass guitar, \u201cStopless\u201d was a straight up and down house track with an analog bassline and Goa trance vibes. \u201cStopless,\u201d another house track bordering on psytrance, gives listeners their first bit of vox but it\u2019s a female sample rather than Pescetti\u2019s own voice, and \u201cClownspunk<\/a>,\u201d whose single art matches its cheeky name, has a bass house beat and was released just before the album with a music video<\/a> which, sticking with the clown theme, is excerpts from Charlie Chaplin\u2019s The Circus<\/a><\/em>, edited to fit the music. <\/p>\n The rest of Daystar Nocturnal <\/em>contains just as much, if not more variance. It opens with the nearly raucous \u201cClownspunk\u201d but then launches into two largely ambient tracks, \u201cMacchia, I\u2019ll See You\u2026\u201d and \u201cObsidian,\u201d a breakbeat electro confection that was clearly inspired by both New Order<\/a> and Enigma<\/a>. As one sinks into the meat of the album, a journey or a theme starts to form, with Pescetti\u2019s haunting, Peter Hook<\/a>-esque bass as it\u2019s ground floor. This is ambient for ambient\u2019s sake, and a beautiful homage to when the new wave of the 80s gave way to the emerging rave music of the 90s, which has now evolved all the way into EDM. Listeners are put on notice that it\u2019s not all a homogenous ambient soundbath, however, as the middle of the album and \u201cNostalgia Aime Le Rouge\u201d hits, with its experimental beginning and heavy, complex drums. If Pescetti was around back then, this gothy track would have gone right onto the The Crow<\/a> <\/em>soundtrack.<\/p>\n I\u2019d like to exist at the intersection of both light and dark, and that is how I hear the music. It\u2019s within this duality that the tension\u2014the push and pull\u2014can be found.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n More twists and turns and push and pull await the listener in the second half of Daystar Nocturnal, <\/em>where ambient turns to fast beats and moody turns to excitement. A masterpiece for his new era and a love letter to electronic music production and all of the artist who\u2019ve come before him (including himself), Gianfranco Pescetti is back and ready to change the ambient EDM scene for the better.<\/p>\n Daystar Nocturnal <\/em>is out now and can be streamed on Spotify<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\n