RIO WOLTA
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RIO WOLTA - Technophobia

Technophobia is a music album by Rio Wolta set in a fictional city with supposedly ideal conditions. Everything works, everyone works. In reasonably quiet streets, occasionally crossed by distanced people (individuals!) with moderate emotions. Everything seems clear, rational and explainable. Emotions are under control, people are always ready for the next innovation, the next step. If it weren't for the fear. Of the future, of their fellow human beings, of their own existence.

Technophobia

Music Album

Album Release 23rd May 2025 Label No Signal Music Produced by Rio Wolta & Domi Chansorn Written by Rio Wolta Recording Domi Chansorn, Rio Wolta Mixing Domi Chansorn Mastering Oli Bösch Flag Waver Pascal Oberli Cinematography Pascal Reinmann Cover Photo Oksana Yushko Graphic Design Leandra Tiemann

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PRESS INFORMATION

“Il musicista e compositore svizzero torna con Technophobia, un’opera che mescola musica, filosofia e provocazione." RSI Rete Uno

“Shades of orchestral simmering pair with pulsing percussion and haunting vocals to result in a riveting atmospheric success from Rio Wolta.” – Mike Mineo, Obscure Sound

“Verschroben, weird, arty.” – Lea Inderbitzin, SRF Sounds!

“Ein Gesamtkunstwerk. Und was für eines! Wolta singt mit einer ans Meditative grenzenden Abgeklärtheit, die repetitiven Klangmotive – opernhaftes Jubilieren, militärisches Getrommel, Sphärenakkorde mit feistem Bassteppich, folkige Akustikgitarren, kreischende Eisenbahnbremsen – subvertieren jedes Zeitverständnis und zwingen zum gedanklichen Driften.“ – Hanspeter Kuenzler, Loop Musikzeitung

“Beauty is volatile. There is much epic quality in the simplicity of Pascal Reinmann's black and white, in his melancholic sobriety, in his lack of patriotism. Rio Wolta offers us a moment of tranquility, without sentimentality, without pointing fingers, without condemning: we simply have to contemplate the world with calm and clarity.” – FICIMAD, Festival de Cine Independiente de Madrid

Film Festival Tour
06/2025 Short Shot Fest, Moscow
09/2025 Big Fridge Festival, London
10/2025 Cultur’halle Festival, Geneva
11/2025 Indie Shorts Awards, Cannes
05/2026 Prisma Awards, Rome*
06/2026 Ficimad, Madrid*
* award winner