The Digitalis Recordings catalogue is quickly expanding barrel of anything non mainstream, but these three releases also proof the big variety in sounds offered. Just like the other M & M (Muslimgauze and Merzbow) Maurizio Bianchi has a wealth of releases, which seems to be vastly growing in more recent times. Maybe I wondered before how much of it is his work, but here I do it again. The cover says 'inspiration and concept by MB', but 'mixed and mastered by Hue', whereas the music is created by Bianchi, Hue (Matteo Uggeri) and Fhievel (Luca Bergero), the latter known as Sparkle in Grey [NOTE by Hue: this is wrong!]. So in what way is this a MB album or, say a Hue album? Or is the presence of the name MB a mere marketing trick. Let's say that it's the work of three persons (and two further guest players on guitar and piano [NOTE by Hue: there is no piano!]). The concept is about the emptiness of deserts and solitude of hermits, in Greek called 'Erimos'. In a single forty-one minute piece this desert is depicted through calm and meditative music, but it's not a single ambient drone. This trio moves through various stages of which the first two are drone like, time stretched pieces and synthesizers (at five minutes almost techno like), but as the work evolves and extra piano and guitar are moved into this electronic landscape things step out of the ordinary drone/synthesizer music, and perhaps becomes a bit kitschy, but throughout it's a fine work, and not as empty as desert is (well, or perhaps as we think it is).