The project Sleep Engine from North London presented the mysterious composition “Giuoco Piano,” a perfect dark-based trip hop/electronic sound.
The symbolic accelerated ticking of either sinister clock, or the illusive metronome of days, is an essential and exciting part of the track, building the atmosphere of a paradox. Along with the restless piano, insightful synths and the beat as if pacing back and forth behind the window, this detail makes “Giuoco Piano” not just a song, but a strange, cold thought creeping in the head. The secretive lyrics here seem to cast the key of an extraordinary epiphany, opening a portal, like at 00:57. And when it takes you to one of the worlds like at 01:55, testing you with mind-deforming sounds, as if from American McGee's Alice, be very careful, because in another minute the walls of this dream will start moving.
