BLACK SUN – Di Fersi Morendo Eterni / Its Creeping Rage

I must admit, I am a sucker for music coming from Italy like the wave legend Kirlian Camera as well as the percussion oriented Neofolk/Military of Camerata Mediolanense. So I jumped in happy anticipation at the two CD-R’s of the Roman BLACK SUN to humor my need for new music across the Alps.
Founded already in 1994 by Luca Basili, their music contains a sometimes strange mix of fast, monotone and bass drum-oriented Darkelectro with some atmospheric elements in the mid-tempo area. This stylistic jumble is supported by male and female vocals/recitative, especially the female vocals show the for Kirlian Camera typical Italian accent, which contributes to the sometimes morbid charm of BLACK SUN.
The 2 CD-R’s are at the end of a long list of demo publications and contain songs between 2003 and 2004. I cannot say if one of the CD-R’s is better, as both have their strong and weak points. Slower songs like Nothing, The Mission cover Heaven Send You or The Bleed have stuck. The faster songs are in some parts monotone and deliberately kept technoid, which results in connection with the not quite so good production (especially Di Fersi Morendo Eterni) in a dull and tiring sound, which shows effort but no real enthusiasm. The bass drum is often pounding forlorn and lost. Also the songwriting is not particularly matured and the sound structures in my opinion very minimalist, but maybe the last point can be interpreted as deliberately used stylistic device.
All in all I cannot give a general, unrestricted recommendation to buy both of these CD-R’s, but fans of (Italian) electro with strange charm should risk listening to them.