Conceived as as a soundtrack for the silent movie “Inferno (1911, Milano Films)” A Forest Dark is the new album from Satan is my Brother, after four years from the eponymous debut on Boring Machines.  This new chapter sees the band expanding to five stable elements, with the addition of Antonello Raggi’s keyboards. A Forest Dark sounds less noisy and chaotic than its predecessor, electronic hiss remains now mostly in the background as a layer where acoustic instruments make their moves. It still retains the nocturnal suggestions, underlined by smoky melodies peeking in the course of the eight episodes. The narco-dub-electronic axis of the previous album is shifted on the interaction between the winds, where trombone and sax build up simple and melancholic dialogues over the electronic layer, chorally joining the rhytm section.
Through the eight movements of the record you’ll hear ambient soundscapes and excited, never furious, rhytmic parts, with many returns to melancholic themes which marks record‘s mood.