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Visio is the enigmatic musical moniker of multidisciplinary artist Nicola Tirabasso, a project devised while on retreat in Sibillini Mountains in Marche, central Italy. Tirabasso describes his latest album, Privacy Angels, as “a liminal zone, a folk magical world sprawling within some remote nodes of the digital universe.” Crafting a rich sonic palette of acoustic instrumentation, intricate sound design and glitched out synthesis, Privacy Angels sounds like folk music broken down and reassembled by algorithm, pitching between the digital and the spiritual, dislocated from place and time yet evocative of a new and distinct vision of the world. Pieced together from recordings made in a desecrated 16th century church near the town of Montappone, the record also invokes the spirit of of abstract painter Osvaldo Licini, who grew up near to Montappone and who’s esoteric approach to painting provides a major inspiration to the world Tirabasso envisions for Privacy Angels. Imagining the end of contemporary civilisati
