Nicodemo returns to Alzaya Records with You Are Sleeping, a five-track EP investigating suspended perceptual states through a restrained sonic language rooted in leftfield house and dub-informed spatial construction.
Rather than following a conventional club structure, the record unfolds as a gradual modification of listening conditions. Time appears slightly extended, spatial references soften, and vocal fragments function less as narrative elements than as residual signals circulating within the mix.
The title track introduces the EP’s mood: a steady but understated rhythmic frame supporting displaced vocal presences and delayed harmonic responses. Echo Phase develops this approach further through layered reflections and recursive spatial treatment, while ‘Minor Haze’ reduces structural clarity in favour of tonal suspension and diffuse harmonic motion.
On the B-side, Domenico Rosa’s reinterpretation of ‘You Are Sleeping’ shifts the material toward a more explicitly club-oriented framework while preserving its perceptual instability, and Aldonna’s version of ‘Echo Phase’ treats the original as memory material and stretching and reframing its echoes into a more abstract temporal field.
Across the EP, rhythm remains present but never directive. Instead, the record proposes a listening environment in which orientation gradually loosens without collapsing entirely.
