[NoHo Arts District, CA] – A NoHo Arts music review of Gianfronco Pescetti’s Daystar Nocturnal.
Gianfronco Pescetti’s Daystar Nocturnal is a collection of gorgeous, spiraling, warmly electronic sounds echoing the very best electronic music…Depeche Mode, Jean Michel Jarre, Thomas Dolby. It’s emotive music, subtle, computer generated, and yet deeply organic. Strange to think that this music was created electronically and yet it feels so lucid, so natural, so poignant.

These tracks are epic proportionally. They blend the intimacy that superb production allows with the kind of infinite scope electronically generated sound give us. A sort of limitless intensity. It can easily be overplayed, with the distracting habit of heavy production and predictable phrasing. Yet Pescetti avoids those obvious mistakes easily. He incorporates unusual and unexpected sounds, creating a soundscape music hybrid that feels oddly observational, with a sense of sweet surveillance, tenderness and even love.
Can music so purposefully wrought seem passionate and raw, improvisational? I think it can in the right hands. Pescetti has been creating music all his life, in bands and now in solo work. He has stories to share and worlds to make. He also has a background in dance, having been a professional dancer, studying ballet. He began in music in the late 80s in San Fransisco, becoming a big part of the city’s music scene. But although this album is definitely full of movement, it feels more cinematic than dance club.

Moody, effusive, eloquent and powerful, the tracks flow one to the other like scenes in a movie…it’s hypnotic.
This is new to me, this ultra electronic organic music, as is Gianfranco Pescetti. But we are in a world of new right now. AI brings us another frontier to either die on or conquer trying. Perhaps Gianfranco Pescetti’s Daystar Nocturnal is the perfect soundtrack for this moment in time. Music made by a human through a computer for humans…fascinating and beautiful. Loved it.
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Official Website: gianfrancopescetti.com
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Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6ysa2Tfi3Ax4u8SyLuhWMw
Bandcamp: https://gianfrancopescetti.bandcamp.com/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/gianfranco-pescetti
Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR0FaPOzRafimUzQsh3Blcg
Artist Contact Email: info@gianfrancopescetti.com