After two CDRs on their own Root Strata label last year Jefre Cantu-Ledesma’s The Alps with ARP and Scott Hewicker became our favourite drone/soundscape artists. That doesn’t help explain why I missed their Type Records debut III, on the contrary it makes it more mysterious, doesn’t it?.

The Alps : Previously on undomondo

’III’ feels like a lost soundtrack to some crumbling Italian surrealist classic with its pounding basslines and swirling synthesizers. This is visual music, inspired by the likes of Werner Herzog, Alejandro Jordorowsky and Michaelangelo Antonioni, but what results is far more than a pastiche. Rather the trio have concocted a record which while being aware of its sprawling influences is far more than the sum of its parts.

The Alps – III by _type