Lorenzo Senni has announced a new album. Scacco Matto marks the Italian producer’s first full-length release on Warp. It arrives April 24.
Listen to the new song “Discipline of Enthusiasm” below. “The title means ‘check mate’ in Italian,” Senni said in a press release. “There’s a constant ‘opponent’ within the tracks—like I was playing a chess game with myself.
I was really trying to bring the music to a certain place and then switch advantageously to another approach. I wanted to see how far I could push the ideas I’ve been developing since ‘Quantum Jelly’ and in order to do that, I needed to force self-imposed limits and rules.” The artwork for Scacco Matto was created by American photographer John Divola.
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