Review: Following some great releases by Boyoca, Defset and CDTRAX, the EMK label returns with this impressive full length by Benjamin Harris, aka Yarni. Pigna is the third record from the Sheffield-based producer, which sees him reach his optimal and most musically diverse potential, with the album taking its name and concept from Sicily, but finding its sound in the orchestration of a new ensemble of musicians. With the aid of Rachel Shirley, Sheila Herzog, Emily Marks and others, it takes in a variety of styles from Afrobeat, swing, disco and funk across 10 tracks.
Review: Yarni has been delivering quietly impressive, heavily electronic deep house EPs for Redlight and others since the start of 2014. Here, he graduates to the album format for the first time, delivering an impressively melodious and action-packed debut for Nightnoise. Over the course of 11 cheerful tracks, the Sheffield-based producer gleefully joins the dots between the hypnotic and musically expansive tech-house of Innervisions, tropical electronica, bass-heavy UK house (given his Steel City location, we'd expect nothing less), vintage Italian dream house, stretched out techno, Middle East-inspired dancefloor rollers, spaced-out electronica, new age ambient and bolder, rougher workouts.
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