frank riggio
psychexcess - jadis. mp3 album

frank riggio’s 'psychexcess' trilogy was designed and realized over the course of more than half a decade, comprising three full length albums which embrace a myriad of sounds and tempers based on the topics birth, life and death. 22 compositions of these intense, longing recording sessions haven't been part of the albums, nevertheless they were part of the trilogy and might be an equivalent of a movie's deleted scenes which should not kept back from an audience. these tracks are now compiled on 'jadis' (french for 'once' or 'formerly') as a fascinating survey of addition and completion. this addendum offers a high level of suspense and a wide sonic palette between stirring sci-fi inspired abstraction and dreamy, melancholic serenity. riggio's astounding skills in sound design are shown on each note produced with acoustic and electronic equipment generating artificial soundtrack motifs, strong downbeat grooves, electroacoustic manipulations... you name it. a strong atmospheric release whose full potential has to be discovered while listening several times - because the past is the past, and it's never ever gone.