Subterrane by Anthony Fiumara

Beneath the surface, where light becomes a rumour, Subterrane listens for the slow murmurs of matter shifting in the dark. The music grows from SOMA Lyra-8’s nervous system – a tangle of feedback, breath, and unstable harmonics – as if the instrument itself were a root organism feeling its way through soil.

Nothing here moves quickly. Forms unfold the way hyphae thread through loam: tentative, filamentous, sensing rather than declaring. A single tone slips into another; textures cling like damp earth to skin. The pieces seem to hold their breath, as if waiting for some unseen organism to stir, or for minerals to settle back into their long geological patience.

Each track is a cross-section of a deeper body: fissures opening, chambers breathing, residues collapsing into new shapes. The subterranean world is not still – it hums with microscopic negotiations, quiet exchanges between decay and emergence. In these spaces, the Lyra becomes less an instrument and more a porous membrane, absorbing and releasing pressure, alive with its own slow desires.

Subterrane is an invitation to drift downward, to enter the minor acoustics of soil and stone, and to hear how everything buried continues to transform, softly, beneath our feet.

Dutch-Italian composer Anthony Fiumara creates contemporary classical and electronic music marked by immediacy, tactile sound, and bold contrasts, often shaped like a rock song. He is also a member of Poulson Sq., Black on Maroon, and Lunar Control.

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