Body Wisdom: an hour that floats

Seventy minutes is a claim before a note plays. Body Wisdom, an Italian electronic record with no interest in the charts, spends the runtime on long-form pieces that drift rather than build, textures turning over slowly enough to feel geological.

It works as weather. Put it on and the room changes temperature; nothing interrupts or insists, and that is deliberate. The sequencing is smart, each piece handing its residue to the next.

It is also the limit. Very little here would survive being listened to hard, and an hour of tasteful drift can start to feel like a screensaver with good taste. A 3: plays, then leaves. As background with a pulse it beats most of its shelf. As an album it asks for an afternoon and returns a mood.

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