“CLONE & UPGRADE, INSERT SOUL HERE (REBIRTH)” by Rellyo Bambini

Rellyo Bambini builds a large audio terrain instead of a standard record with Cloned & Upgrade, Insert Soul Here (Rebirth Edition). Extending over 28 songs, this project unfolds like a complex audio version of a concept film, showing identity and artificial alteration combined into thick layers of electronic distortion and cinematic potential. This album is all about contrast. The hard metallic sounds of synthesizers along with broken beats interconnect with pure moments of extreme vulnerability where machine exactness and fragileness are a conflicting point. From the new intensity found in "Big Bad Love - Rebirth Edition" on, you will also find that the atmosphere created feels like you are walking through an illuminated virtual city that works with a continuous threat to authenticity.

Bambini provides an insight into what remains sacred today in an age where everything becomes duplicated. This record does not come to easy conclusions but instead gives us a collection of images that define ambition, humor, arrogance, and thoughtfulness. An example of this is found in the assertive attitude of “Bossy Pants” and the commentary on excessive behavior in the digital age found in “Crypto Kids”. The experimental construction of some songs and the cutting through and mixing in different styles keep the feeling of instability.

Even though the album has many tracks, amazing attention to detail in sound production and thematic usage creates a sense of connection between all of them. At the end of this long record, the listener is given a meditative experience that reflects on their journey through Cloned & Upgrade, Insert Soul Here (Rebirth Edition).