Poste y Telegrafi

Poste E Telegrafi is the debut solo album from Italian guitarist Alessandro Stefana. Featuring an all-star cast including Mark Ribot and Leo Abrahams, Stefana creates a dreamy world of instrumental perfection and beauty. Inspired by the work of Ennio Morricone, Ry Cooder, Simon Jeffes, Steve Reich, and Brian Eno, he has created a thoroughly modern Western world within his compositions and arrangements. With constant references to traditional music and rural blues, he utilizes electric and acoustic instrumentation with tremendously compelling results. Acoustic, electric, and pedal steel guitars along with banjo, kalimba, baliphones, and found objects were all carefully combined with primitive electronic instruments such as an arpeggiator, omnichord, and homemade vinyl loops. Stefana's sound is entirely original, yet clearly rooted in traditions such as film music, blues, experimental, ambient, and avant-garde. Most tracks on Poste E Telegrafi are duets, with his guests keeping the sounds and arrangements simple and pure. To call this a "promising debut" would be to dismiss the tremendous success delivered by Poste E Telegrafi.