Alejandro Bento has been an active part of the electronic community for a more than 20 years, composing, producing and refining his personal style of contribution to the scene. Working under his own name, Bento constructed rich piano pieces that carried heavy emotion, cinematically moving works which attracted the acclaim and attention of other significant figures involved with electronica. Bento’s 2016 EP ‘Ripples’ included a remix by Robot Koch, with other artists following with their own re-workings of his songs.
In 2019 Bento established the new alias of Axel Toben, maintaining the sound that he spent so long developing through years in the industry and becoming a welcome addition to the left-field supporting label Subtempo. As Axel Toben he released the neatly titled EP ‘Phonosynthesis’ in October of the same year, injecting a much heavier dose of electronica and techno into his sound. Here Bento claims his title as a multi-instrumentalist, bringing his talent for melodies to more alien environment populated with lo-fi drums and analog synthesizers.
As Bento returns to the Axel Toben project with debut album ‘Orbit’ he looks to more careful, atmosphere defining tracks. The result is emotive, an interstellar point of view wherein the glacier-like patience and beauty manages to trace a circle of solace.
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