Montana, Lorenzo
Vion (red)
Vion is the 29th full-length album to bear the name of Italian soundtrack composer, engineer, and producer Lorenzo Montana It is his first solo effort for Oakland-based emotive electronics outpost n5MD. Vion began as a means for Montana to experiment with jazz brush drum patterns. The album slowly took shape, and further experimentation gave way to stylistic shifts that, in turn, broadened the album's palette to include ought-era experimental electronica motifs and percolating ambiance. Motion is a constant with nearly all of Montanas output; details are ever-evolving, rarely static. The brushed drums and leftfield production comple- ment each other and give Vion a sense of lightness juxtaposed with its somewhat melancholic tonality. With Vion, Montana has stretched beyond his recent more ambient offerings to include a cross-section of his electronic music output thus far.