Glowal

About

" slick, hardened beats for basement shape throwing "

A sharp blend of morphing techno and edgy electronica, Glowal, an Italian beat-driven duo made up of Fabio Giannelli and Alessandro Gasperini, lived in other musical worlds before coming together in 2017. The pair have marked similarities in style that no doubt drew them together, but also share inspiration provided by their brothers, both of whom went before them into the music industry as DJs and producers.

It didn’t take long for Glowal to start firing on all cylinders. 2019’s Roda EP, which features a couple of melodic radio edits with Simon Batten, has vocals but is very heavy on the understated beats and slow-building, throbbing melodies, and presents different versions of songs that show the duo’s chameleon-like habits.

Over the years that followed, a run of beautifully slick tracks subtly delivered Glowal’s take on humanity’s destruction of the environment, as well as showcasing a tendency to create earworms that set dancefloors on fire. Leaked out in a drip-effect of ones and twos, their tracks almost feel like they ignite with intensity at times, and at others provide the slow-ride of repetitive beats that keep dancefloors alive until the drop.

2022 album ‘Trigger Your Sense’, released on Agoria’s label Sapiens Recordings, is the star of the show so far. It was produced over an intensive New Year period between 2020 and 2021, and serves up a heady, uplifting piece of music, just under an hour of gentle ebb and flow that has the feel of a kind of electronica-driven ‘developed techno’ – blurred and intensive, with subtle nuance scattered throughout and colourful asides hidden like Easter eggs.

The overall effect is clubnight happy, with slightly skittish vocals overlaying siren like calls on driving opener ‘Unbroken’ or subtle beats almost reminiscent of Sigur Ros in slow-build tracks like ‘Lone’.

“We knew from the inside we wanted to do this in life” Glowal said of the music they produce. They were speaking of creating their sound, but could equally could have simply been talking about making people dance.