First things first, this is one of the most striking and eclectic releases we’ve heard this year in the fertile space between electronic and ambient music.
Released on September 26th via Locomotiv Records, All Of My Life I’ve Been Dreaming About The Sea is the solo debut album by Lillo Morreale, an Italian multi-instrumentalist. Across nine tracks, Morreale crafts a personal world where experimental electronics entwine with folk timbres and dialects, sketching what he calls Mediterranean Electronica. It’s an album that blurs time and geography: rooted in Sicily, reaching across the Mediterranean, and hovering in a cinematic space all its own.
The album thrives on its eclectic palette of sounds. Modular synths, drones, and electronic textures collide with the timbres of traditional Middle Eastern and North African instruments such as the saz, baglama, and lotar, weaving a sonic fabric that feels both ancient and futuristic. Morreale’s film-score background seeps through in the pacing of the compositions: tension builds and recedes like waves, field recordings dissolve into harmonics, voices emerge like fragments of forgotten myths. Tracks like “Nivuru Munnu” and “Ni Persimu” ground the electronics with dialect vocals, transforming the human voice into both rhythm and ritual. Others, like “Ocean Is My Church,” push the fusion further, unfolding like a hymn to water, where the spiritual and the elemental blur.
What makes the album striking is not only the breadth of its instrumentation, but also its emotional depth. From the very beginning, “There Used To Be Fireflies Where I Was Born” sets the tone with an enveloping swell of analog synth drones, guiding the listener into a slow emotional crescendo. At the peak of tension, rather than erupting, the sound dissolves unexpectedly into a field recording of the Atlantic Ocean — a gesture that feels both grounding and otherworldly. That same ocean returns in the closing track “Satori,” where hypnotic synth loops build into a ritual crescendo, sealing the record in a circular embrace that ties beginning and end together.
Between these two poles, Morreale explores a wide range of moods. “Scrusciu,” perhaps the most intimate piece here, unfolds like a lullaby; its lo-fi haze only amplifies its tenderness.In contrast, “Some Nights I Remember My Past Lives Under The Stars As A Feral Animal” stretches into a suite that shifts from folk guitar to choral atmospheres and free-jazz drumming, before dissolving into dreamlike ambience.
Crossover albums of this kind can be hit-or-miss: eclecticism often turns ornamental, and experimentation drains music of its emotive core. Morreale’s debut is a rare exception. It never loses sight of feeling, grounding its explorations in sounds that remain deeply human. And if the sea is his starting point, the horizon ahead looks all the more inviting.
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