On Friday, 10 January 2025, Fickle, the third album by Tacet Tacet Tacet, the solo project of the Italian artist currently based in Utrecht (Netherlands), Francesco Zedde, will be released. Preceded in recent weeks by the singles Unfocus and Pertinence, it will be available in a deluxe handmade CD edition, standard and limited-edition cassette, as well as digitally, through a network of international labels: Attenuation Circuit (Germany), Bloody Sound (Italy), Gross Diskos (Greece), Light Item (Italy), and Slowth Records (Italy).

Fickle is an album that combines concrete sounds, ambient atmospheres, and experimentation, painting a varied and fascinating sonic landscape. The compositions arise from manipulating predominantly instrumental or naturally sourced sound material, including field recordings and samples. Through skilful processing, these elements transform abstraction and synthesis, where reversing, pitch shifting, granulation, and resampling are essential tools for balancing innovation with organic textures.

Francesco Zedde's travels to Iceland were crucial to the creation of Fickle, where he made several field recordings in nature and became acquainted with the stimulating local music scene. The album's atmospheres evoke the spirit of artists like Ólafur Arnalds, Celer, Murcof, and Tim Hecker, with an approach that blends the playful lightness of Boards of Canada with the dark, enveloping intensity of Ben Frost. The use of glitch drum samples recalls early Múm productions, with echoes of Soley, Apparat, The Books, and Mogwai woven into the work's sonic fabric.

The album features significant collaborations: Jacopo Mittino, known as 52 Hearts Whale, co-composed the tracks Gamble, Dissimulation, Unfocus, and Recurrence, while Rea Dubach's ethereal voice, after undergoing radical treatment, appears on Recurrence, adding an unsettling touch to the piece.