Milan’s Andrea Belfi - an accomplished electro-acoustic composer and percussionist - has already made a mark on the ‘indie’ world with his collaborations with David Grubbs, but with Wege, his debut LP for the solid Melbourne-based ROOM40 label, the crossover seems incontestably achieved. This is also aided by the inclusion of Machinefabrik and Greg Haines on his new record.

Wege is an astonishing album, created in part from two installation residencies in Austria and Brussels, for which Belfi developed a series of modular synth networks controlled by his percussion performances. A complex interwiring of mechanical and rhythmic devices that autonomously generated feedback and loop patterns whilst being restrained and guided by Belfi’s drumming.

For all the challenge and demand of such a difficult and dense work, there are elements of pure sonic beauty in Wege; interwoven bells and granular blips, multi-rhythmic collages and throbbing subsonics, all of which delight the ear, easing us into the more difficult paths of sparkling noise and scattered sample segments.

‘A’ - the first side of the double LP - can be heard below.