Cosimo Damiano - Glimpse

‘Glimpse’ is the ethereal, stuttering closer to Hypnos, the third project from producer Cosimo Damiano for Survive, the Milanese imprint headed up by Inner Lakes, stalwart of the Italian underground music scene and resident of Milan’s foremost cultural space Macao. Channeling the ancient power of the Greek god of sleep, the titlar Hypnos, Damiano explores a somnambulist sound palette, threading together dreamy synthesis and snatches of off-kilter samples to pull us deeper and deeper into the dream. Teaming up with artist and filmmaker Francesco Tosini for ‘Glimpse’, the collaborators conjure a shifting synthetic topography, an IDM dreamscape through which they navigate with misfiring percussion, stroboscopic imagery and a haunting, looping ambience. “The rhizomal matrix from which dreams draw is a field of deeply interconnected potential narrations, a cluster of electrons in the making,” explain the duo. “The dream can linger and process a particle as a product of history and the unconscious of the sin