Description
Melbourne based singer songwriter and guitarist extraordinaire Justin Bernasconi’s latest collection of tunes, Sleeping Like A Maniac, follows 2017’s Barefoot Wonderland in the exploration of Americana influences and painstaking self-reflection. What Bernasconi offers here is a COVID-era document in the most compelling sense in that, Sleeping Like A Maniac is the sound of an artist turning the mirror on himself and taking stock of his own life and emotional state.
Bernasconi stradles styles and sounds from the Delta Blues, Appalachian Bluegrass, English Folk and all stops in between, his highly original tunes are infused with exciting and soulful guitar playing. What Justin Bernasconi has crafted with Sleeping Like A Maniac is a crackling fusion of these genres, which are not so far removed from one another, upon which he disassembles and reassembles his own psyche a dozen times over. The penultimate verse of the closing track offers a brief summation of the project’s modus operandi “Fears dissolve when I write the facts/Get this stuff outta my head/Before I get back into bed”.
Produced, recorded & mixed by the inimitable JEFF LANG (who also plays on a couple of tracks), and features the incredible singer/songwriter/multi instumentalist CAT CANTERI playing drums on a track or two.
