Sterile Cuckoo presents his Phantasma universe

German-born Sterile Cuckoo is the creative outfit of Thomas Minischetti, a skilful, multi-talented musician and producer who performs on guitars, keys and vocals. He expresses his main musical influences as World’s End Girlfriend, My Bloody Valentine and Nick Drake.

Sterile Cuckoo has enlisted the vocal talents of Orion Lake for his latest EP, Phantasma. The album is more than just an EP; it’s Sterile Cuckoo’s way of luring you into his hypnotic and otherworldly musical universe, through eight expertly produced tracks of varying intensity and tempo.

Phantasma opens with “The Ghost of Sant Claire”, an exhilarating cacophony of delicate, drowned-out voices juxtapose random high points of happiness. By combining unconventional sound bites with gritty undertones, “27 Leaves” really raises the heat as the album’s follow-on.

Guitars are intelligently refined in “Sheltering Sky,” which is laden with a relentless drum machine loop. The EP then heads in more cinematic direction, focusing on experimental soundscapes and a pastoral auditory vision. “Clint” delivers a perfectly timed and well-executed injection of adrenaline toward the end of the album, and “Ex Nihilo” is the ideal harmonious sayonara to cap a tremendous piece of work.

Phantasma is an intelligent, well-produced introduction to the eclectic, soundscape-laden world that is Sterile Cuckoo and will undoubtedly generate a further interest in what is a rapidly growing successful music career for this esteemed artist.

You can listen to Sterile Cuckoo – Phantasma on the link below