… Naturally, the music presented on the three works in question is decidedly functional to ritual practice, although the purely aesthetic-sonic value – perhaps incidentally – does not suffer too much from this: minimal, simple and insistent geometries, the harmonic texture is nuanced, stripped to the bone, the rarefaction imperceptible, …
“…varie cassette degli stessi C.P., tra cui l’ottima “Ix-Tab” (c60) che ricorda il classico “BlackMass” di Lucifer (LP di musica occulta/sintetica del 1971) rivisto e corretto alla luce di Coil e Current 93…” Vittore Baroni, Rockerilla n. 95/96 -1988
The Italians are great at creating surreal ambient music and Capricorni Pneumatici stands proudly alongside the likes of Riccardo Sinigaglia, Pierluigi Castellano, Luciano Dari, Arturo Stalteri, et al, yet with a more oblique mysterious stance. Predominantly ring modulated synthetic/percussive sounds, tape loops and location recordings, it’s an excellent tape containing …
Your music is very good, truthfully, I like it better than any that has been sent me by various groups. Both tapes are excellent. Z’EV – November 1988, writing about CP and Al-Azif in a private letter