...Rendering in progress (1998)
In ...Rendering in progress a greater musical maturity and compositional ability can be perceived. Neoismo lose the creativity of Flavio Tordini but find the best work up to now. One begins to surprise with to Perfect Description Of The Celestial Orbits which talks about an imaginary journey toward unexplored planets. High quality electronic music. Here's the best piece composed by Neoismo up to this point of their career: Cosmozen, authentic masterpiece in Battiato style with an ethereal orchestra. In this song both Italian lyrics and the new Emiliano's philosophy, the Zen, do their beginning. Synthesizers and traditional instruments such as piano and strings melt in creating melodies which call onto meditation. They're been composed and arranged by flavio d.
Logic probe gives a clean cut to the whole work. The sound is very hard, an industrial and technology-oriented metal with nervous movements of the solo synth and powerful guitar stops. The sound relaxes with Betelgeuse, a ballad reminding Enigma, with quasi-Satriani guitar phrases. The synth part of the refrain is the retrogradation of Sequences, an ingenious self-quotation. Neptune is another relevant song of Neoismo with and dreaming texts and a sound which reminds the early works of the band. Hakuin fully develops the cultural and meditative momentum of the band: absence of drums, a free composition which seems to fly around in the air. In the synth solo, the zen master seems to want to communicate something...
Liquid is an experimental dance song entirely made with an old amiga-style tracker.
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