Maurizio Bianchi is well known for his noise and industrial music, now for almost 30 years. From 1980 until 1984, Bianchi has released some 25 solo records, LPs which have given him a legendary status in the industrial music world. Personal – Bianchi became a Jehova witness - and financial reasons stopped him from making music for about 15 years. When he restarted his musical activities in 1998 a remarkable change occurred: he started to play together with other musicians. His discography is since then nicely divided in solo work vs. collaborations. Erimos is the second chapter of a 'quadrilogy' called 'Between the elements'. For Erimos, MB has decided to team up with two younger musicians. The names of Matteo Uggeri and Luca Bergero don't ring a bell, but that's changed after hearing this album. What we get is a beautiful, careful arranged and terminated travel through the abstract world of a desert. Drone music is often described as a soundtrack through any kind of landscape and the choice of the desert as background for this music fits perfectly. The emptiness of a desert, but also the bleakness of the beach, keeps fascinating artists. As kids, we loved looking to sand from very nearby. The beach is always seen as a whole, but we loved to lie down on a towel – preferably next to a nice lady, or sand castle – and just look at the tiny pieces that made up this whole. The distant view shows the whole, the closer look reveals the elements and the spaces between. The cover art shows a bleak image of a desert, a place where one is alone, only confronted with oneself. 'Erimos' is the Greek word for hermit, we read. "Who is the hermit? He is an ascetic who lives alone in solitary and deserted spots, he keeps himself apart from the world in order to devote himself entirely to contemplation and to live in destitution". Is this what this music is about? Is it better to listen to 'Erimos' with a headphone? Does the closer look, the elaborate study of a sound in all of its aspects reveal a richness we would otherwise miss? Surely, the sound and structure of this album does have a closed, hermetic dimension that really pleases us. The closer look, the introspection – sonically translated by turning up the volume, using headphones, but also by listening concentrated and maybe even alone to this music – it all adds to the experience. MB worshippers will get this anyway, for newbies this may be just the time to join in.