Review: EDM artist Gianfranco Pescetti’s album ‘Daystar Nocturnal’

By Ljubinko Zivkovic, Rock At Night Amsterdam

Music Review: Gianfranco Pescetti’s album  Daystar Nocturnal

Very often, when you see either the dance or ambient tag designated to an electronic album or a single it is either/or. Many artists within the two sub-genres or genres, if you will, pick one or the other and firmly stay within those confines.

When they do venture and try to combine the two, usually one of the two dominates the sound, making the combination a bit unworkable.

Italian-born composer and producer Gianfranco Pescetti ventures himself into the electro-dance/ambient combination on his latest album ‘Daystar Nocturnal,’ with quite a bit more favorable results.

Pescetti, who is originally from the Tuscan Island of Capraia  previously lived in France for a few years before moving to the United States to continue his music career.

Currently residing on the Hawaiian island of Maui, Pescetti seems to have combined his previously visible EDM inclinations (starting out back in 2014) with more serene, pastoral sounds of his current surroundings, coming up with an interesting EDM/ambient combination, some might call ambient dance. There are touches of some key acts that started out  in the eighties in there like Depeche Mode, but also moves of more guitar-oriented bands like The Cure, which Pescetti integrates quite seamlessly here.

If some other artists have a problem integrating electro-dance sounds with those of a more ambient nature, Pescetti doesn’t seem to have a problem of doing so on ‘Daystar Nocturnal.’

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Ljubinko Zivkovic

Ljubinko Zivkovic is a freelance writer/journalist from The Netherlands, who has previously worked as a journalist, diplomat and a translator. Music is his key writing interest.

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