Elektriktus – Electronic Mind Waves, Volume 2 LP

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RELEASE DATE: 2/13/2026

In 2019,Andrea Centazzodiscovered unlabeled tape reels in his mother’s attic in Udine — boxes assumed lost seven years earlier. What emerged from these deteriorating reels, transferred by engineerSergio Tomasiniduring COVID lockdowns, was unexpected: unreleased recordings from the originalElektriktussessions of 1973-76, alongside other archival materials including previously unknown collaborations withSteve LacyandEvan Parkerfrom the same period. Centazzo’s solution was conceptually elegant: add contemporary digital electronics to the original analog Elektriktus recordings, creating temporal palimpsest in which the seventy-something composer engages in dialogue with his younger self. Crucially, his fundamental approach hasn’t changed. “Making a 10-minute loop meant playing and overdubbing for 10 minutes!” This rejection of computer automation, this insistence on the hand-played and physically executed, links 2025 to 1975 through continuous methodology.Electronic Mind Waves Volume 2operates in complex registers: contemporary electronics don’t “update” the original recordings but exist in conversation with them. By overlaying 2025 digital work onto 1975 analog recordings, Centazzo creates proof that affinities between cosmic drift and percussive grounding were present in the original conception, waiting to be heard. This temporal doubling produces music that is neither nostalgic recreation nor radical revision but something more complex — a conversation between past and present, between the composer who created these sounds in the mid-1970s and the artist who now understands their full implications.