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WD-41+2: Temi Per Cinema

By Glenn Astarita
December 14, 2010
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Temi Per Cinema is the follow-up to guitarist

Willie Oteri

multi-instrumentalist

" data-original-title="" title="">Willie Oteri and trumpeter Dave Laczko's self-produced WD-41 (2009), with the addition of lap steel dulcimer and beat jockey artist

Dino J. A. Deane

multi-instrumentalist
1950 - 2021

" data-original-title="" title="">Dino J. A. Deane and drummer

" data-original-title="" title="">Scott Amendola. Collectively, the musicians have been at the forefront of new music-making, amid variable flavors and shades, bordering on the avant-garde, jazz-rock, electronica and other intertwining genres. Here, the WD-41+2 unit expands upon applications and concepts, first evidenced on the 2009 effort.

At times, Oteri and Laczko summon up notions of trumpeter

Jon Hassell

trumpet
b.1937

" data-original-title="" title="">Jon Hassell's legacy, via dark horns, sweeping electronics and atmospheric textures. But the differentiator here pertains to the musicians' portrayal of a portentous storyline, which could serve as the soundtrack to an avant, sci-fi video game. Featuring Oteri's detailed phrasings, budding undercurrents and

Jimi Hendrix

guitar, electric
1942 - 1970

" data-original-title="" title="">Jimi Hendrix-like blasts, to coincide with Laczko's harrowing lines, the program offers a foreboding outlook composed of oscillating ventures into a vast neural network.

The band spawns a whirlwind abyss of fractured themes and scowling accents. On "AA-5," Laczko's stilted notes lead the charge atop a slowly climactic series of events, contrasted by loops, and the guitarist's deft single note attack, while Deane and Amendola execute unearthly underpinnings, often laying out a broad spectrum of ethereal treatments.

Each track bleeds into the next, mainly from a contextual standpoint. It's a program steeped within a deviant, ambient-electronica factor. Oteri and associates research diametrically-opposed angles and a swirling architecture, extending similar frameworks, rendered by others, into a herculean endeavor, offset by a take-no-prisoners approach. They accelerate the roads previously traversed into a frenetic cosmic experience on Temi Per Cinema.

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Track Listing

U-5; BB-2; Q-1; W-1A; W-5; W-1B; T-6; AA-5; Q-2; AA-4.

Personnel

Willie Oteri

multi-instrumentalist

Scott Amendola

drums

Dino J. A. Deane

multi-instrumentalist

Dave Laczko

trumpet

Willie Oteri: guitars and live loops; Dave Laczko: trumpet and effects; Scott Amendola: drums and percussion; Dino J.A. Deane: lap steel dulcimer and beat jockey.

Album information

Title: Temi Per Cinema | Year Released: 2010 | Record Label: Self Produced

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