ELLEFFESSE

pic by Susanna Corniani

BIOGRAPHY

ELLEFFESSE is the pseudonym of Sebastiano Confetta, a musician, producer and sound engineer who has been involved in numerous electronic and post-punk projects since 2010.
In 2010, he founded Holiday in Arabia with Marco Ghidelli, releasing two EPs (Holiday In Arabia EP, 2010-Mad On The Moon records) and one album (Open Ending, 2012- Baffo Music).
In 2015, he founded the band Baobab Romeo with Davide Bianchera (BBIIAANNCCOO) and Mattia Bresciani, releasing an EP of the same name and two albums (Hum, 2018, Seahorse Recording; Frame, 2022, Adat Records).
In 2022, he began writing the album La Fabbrica sospesa under the moniker ELLEFFESSE.

The album was released a few days ago on the TENREC label.

ALBUM COVER

artist : ELLEFFESSE

album title : La Fabbrica Sospesa

label: TENREC

INFO ALBUM 

The album consists of eight tracks, each representing a neon strip illuminating an oppressive and decadent metropolis. The sound is created by the fusion of analogue and digital synths that intertwine like strands of energy in an ever-expanding network. The fluid, percussive rhythms, characterised by industrial metallic clinks and glitches, accompany the classic sound of the 808 and LinnDrum. The tracks are mainly instrumental, except for “Neon Eden”, which features Mattia Bresciani, singer of Baobab Romeo, on vocals.
‘The tracks were created over a period of four years as raw ideas unconnected to each other. Over the last year, they took shape, grew and moved together as if they were a single organism.
While I was composing, I had no conceptual preconceptions, but every time I looked for an image to anchor an idea, my mind took me to contrasting scenarios.
I imagined unperturbed warm landscapes buried by sand and oceans, remnants of our time and, at the same time, cities illuminated by fluorescent lights. In these images, the contrast between nostalgia and the future prevailed, making them undefined, suspended in time and space. To bring these ideas to life, every time I entered the studio, I turned on all the machines and let myself be carried away by the sound, repeating the same pattern until I was satisfied.
I programmed the sequencers so that they could intervene stochastically, inserting unexpected notes or beats. This allowed me to work outside my usual patterns; it felt like playing together with the machines themselves, their intervention influencing the final result.
I believe that the relationship between nostalgia and the future is perfectly represented by the sound of some of the old synthesizers used. Their sound represents a future that never materialised. They give the tracks a dreamy yet disturbing feel. The album cover is based on two works created in a workshop with children aged 3-5, led by Irene Cantarelli, a nursery school teacher and psychologist. These works were then integrated into an architectural composition created by Davide Bianchera (BBIIAANNCCOO), with the support of artificial intelligence.

VIDEOCLIP

The music video for ‘EXGLI’ was conceived by Davide BBIIAANNCCOO Bianchera and created with the help of AI.
The video opens with the album cover image, which gradually comes to life, expands and transforms into the first scene of an immersive visual journey.
The video clip follows an anonymous traveller who abandons the hustle and bustle of a metropolis teeming with LEDs and holographic billboards to pursue different possibilities for the future.
Amidst structures engulfed by climbing plants and neon-lit tunnels, each crossroads becomes a portal that catapults the viewer from retro vaporwave arcades to solarpunk landscapes, where vertical greenhouses, firefly drones and ornamental turbines coexist with lagoons and anomalous deserts.
 The journey – characterised by transitions that appear as leaps of reality – recounts the bold and necessary choice to rethink the relationship between man, technology and nature: no longer domination, but creative symbiosis.