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It is a fitting way to enter the controlled  sense of chaos and chance that seems to bubble beneath and within each of the album’s nine tracks.

While the pure, unprocessed rhythms of the album's opener, “San Michele”, set the stage for the pulsing journey that unfurls across the album’s two sides, only handful of minutes in, the cycling beats and dub infused delays of “Notte Stellata” reveal that a more complex proposition is in play, which push further toward open abstractions with the writhing textures unleashed by “Santa Cristina” and “Tunnel”, each calling to mind the flowing water so close to Perelli’s musical heart.

As the album progresses, Perelli continues to challenge the categories and perceptions of rhythm itself, threading further subtle interventions throughout more pop infused and ambient compositions like “Lightless”, “Cuore”, and “Bosco”, which introduce a more expanded palettes of instrumentation - piano, organ, lapsteel, etc. “Belgrado” is the only track of the album where appears a voice, of the Scottish singer Emma Morton - as well as throwing a wrench in the cogs with the delicate field-recording oriented piece “Sound of Topanga”.

A deeply intimate and fascinating journey into a multifaceted world of rhythm, drawing on Piero Perelli’s many years of travel and learning, “Notte”.

“Taping, expanding, and challenging the parameters of how we perceive rhythm and percussion, comes “Notte”, the debut solo LP by the Italian journeyman drummer and composer Piero Perelli. Ranging from the infectiously hypnotic to complex abstractions and sheets of ambience, every step of the way it's an engrossing listen that shouldn't be missed.

It’s hard not to love records that are rooted entirely (or almost entirely) in percussion, trance-inducing sounds of drums can often achieve what other instruments cannot, capturing the heart, ears, and mind, entirely on their own. This is certainly the case with “Notte”, the Italian drummer Piero Perelli’s debut LP. Traversing a wide range of experimental territories, from the hypnotically dub infused, to field recording laced textural pieces, to others that insist the contributions of others to incorporate a slightly broader palette of tonality, it’s a brilliant solo debut - from an artist who’s been quietly making waves in the Italian scene for a number of years.”