While listening to Greyfade’s upcoming release, ITERAE, featuring electronic musician and conceptualist Joseph Branciforte and pioneering Fender Rhodes artist Jozef Dumoulin, I begun to wonder had one letter been accidentally left out from the name, namely t from the word (verb) ITERATE, ie. to perform or utter repeatedly, as in “the bird’s call is a monotonously iterated single note”, except that the album is not about monotonous repetition. On the contrary, all sorts of varying subtle things are happening on the road, yet what leaves a mark on the brain is a continuum that intentionally progresses in time, interrupted by cracks, clicks, chords, bells, wobble etc. slowly growing but never into a big outburst. This is music for the mind, music for closed eyes in a dark room. Distortions in a perfect harmony.
Here’s Greyfade: “The focus is squarely on distillation: small fragments captured, transformed, and recombined into cascading, lattice-like structures. The result merges aspects of early glitch with bold explorations of harmony and form, weaving together threads from modern classical, electroacoustic, and ambient music.”
The album documents an acutely focused musical dialogue between two artists who have reimagined not only the sonic possibilities of amplified keyboard instruments, but the potential of technology to shape musical improvisation. Spanning 70 minutes, its eight modular sections hover between form and abstraction, precise sonic architecture and dream-like flow
THE RELEASE
ITERAE is issued as a bespoke multi-disc edition designed by Branciforte — extending the music’s own structural logic into physical form.
Label Greyfade: Catalog GF011, duration 68:09
Joseph Branciforte & Jozef Dumoulin
ITERAE (2026)
release: 17 april 2026
format: multi-disc edition + digital download
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Jozef Dumoulin is a Belgian keyboardist recognized for his role in redefining the Fender Rhodes as a 21st-century instrument, forging a highly personal musical language through extensive electronic manipulation.
Joseph Branciforte is a composer, producer, and fellow Rhodes experimentalist known for bridging acoustic and electronic worlds in collaborations with Theo Bleckmann, Taylor Deupree, and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Both performers are fluent improvisers, with musical vocabularies drawing broadly from jazz, electronic, and contemporary music.
RECORDING
Recorded over two days in New York, ITERAE captures the artists’ first ever musical encounter—a fact belied by the depth of their interaction.
The performances center around two separate Rhodes pianos, each artist applying his own array of processing and effects. In addition to sound generation, Branciforte harnesses a custom live editing system—designed to process both musicians’ outputs in real time. This software allows him to capture and reconfigure musical material on the fly, creating architectural patterns and layers from small details within the unfolding improvisation.
The music unfolds with an unbroken focus and sense of direction, dense tapestries of glitches giving way to moments of deeply intuitive, harmonic convergence. The juxtaposition of open-ended improvisation and the precise, methodical compositional vision for which Branciforte is known creates a dynamic interplay, where flow and memory, improviser and editor remain in constant dialogue.
At 70 minutes, the release is one of the longest in either artist’s catalogue. This expansive format allows for a panoramic listening experience, where textural and motivic ideas accrue, dissolve, and reappear across extended timescales. The result is music shaped by sonic openness, patient listening, and long-range compositional thinking in equal measure—with technology serving as the medium through which these forces converge.
ITERAE may be the clearest articulation yet of the balance between immediacy and structural depth that has come to define both artists’ approaches.
