If there’s music that sounds like a dishwasher, then it’s: jazz. And jazz is not dead, it just smells funny. This is how the Italian Antonio Marini describes his Healing Force Project on his website. With Marini, however, it’s more about giving jazz its shine back. And to do that, things are allowed to rattle and throb for a few seconds. Then things will work out well with everything else on its own. And anyone who delves into his album »Melts In Your Mind« gets drawn into Marini’s rhythmically dark sonic construct of experimental electronics.
»Diaphonization« uses crooked beats and soars into meditation, while »Two Waves In The Dark« barely scrapes past an escalation into drum’n’bass for six and a half minutes. Jazz is in there already. Just more in spirit. In general, everything is supposed to melt into your mind, as the album title suggests. Where other artists would be constantly changing patterns and moving things around, Marini really makes it feel like a flow, like moments that just happen, just are. When the occasional synthesiser or electric guitar sprinkles in a few notes, it’s all part of the giant new space in our heads where »Melts In Your Mind« takes root. This makes the album both challenging and incredibly exciting.
