Tom Simonetti, seit Kindertagen Drummer und zugleich Soundtüftler am Synthie, veröffentlicht nach Jahren in diversen Bands und Kollaborationen sein erstes Album im Alleingang. Unter dem Alias mycrotom hat er mit einer Armada an Klangerzeugern - neben diversen analogen Perkussionsgeräten Saito Marimba, CASIO cz5000, Korg Polysix, Doepfer 404, Dynacord vrz23, Sherman Filterbank, EMU Planet phatt, I-Pad Apps, Roland jx3p, Mks50 – eine hypnotische Musik irgendwo im Grenzland von elektronischer Avantgarde, Dub, Psychedelic, Hiphop, Disco und Minimal Music auf die Beine gebracht. Das Debüt “Ratoratiyo” erscheint Anfang Juni digital und einen Monat drauf physisch bei Mongkong Music. Neben der CD und 200 kristallklaren Vinylscheiben wird es eine VR-Video-App mit Brille geben, um die Visuals von Hanna Verwohlt adäquat zu genießen.

“Music from mycrotom? Does the “mycro” stand for microscopic miniature music, or is there simply a very modest artist behind the small-print artist name? We may assume the latter, since the Italian-Canadian Tom Simonetti alias mycrotom has created rather large-format sound carpets in the Bertolt Brecht mechanical engineering city of Augsburg. He now presents the same: soundscapes on which you can go out of work and walk away. Soundscapes on which you can fly. Like an albatross with its broad wings, we imagine the Maestro as we listen. Very slowly the science fiction samurai Simonetti unrolls the ornaments in front of our ears. Quite the machine whisperer who perseveres in the twilight zone and weaves the song that sleeps in the mycrotom machine, he serves us music equal to a tea ceremony – with plenty of time to steep. This is a record you have to let sink in with the bass channels wide open. Details and structures unfold along the way, over time. No matter how you twist and turn it: This record is a revelation. With each listen you get more and more.” (Mongkong Music)