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L​’​abbaglio

by Carlo Giustini

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Sihou Carlo composes very mysterious and intimate music. Its roots go to sunny childhood, to the boundless joy of everything. And through the prism of our accumulated experience, the bitterness of loss and the understanding of being, his music excites the imagination and recalls forgotten moments.

My interview with Carlo: www.facebook.com/%D0%92%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5-%D0%9F%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B6%D0%B8-100370361386809/
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Noah M Cloudy beautiful nostalgia from one of my favorite newer sound artists. Combining intricate field recordings over broken melodies creating a near perfect walk along the river.
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Santosia 09:27
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L’abbaglio 05:28
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Rosalegno 16:54

about

Imagine being able to live forever in a small, warm, intimate home. A mental space, a haiku. Imagine feeling the walls of this environment, gently touching them with your fingertips, savoring the essence of its thousand past inhabitants. Now you’re in charge, a humble guardian of the secrets of this peaceful environment. A domestic place, close but at the same time unknown and nostalgic.

You are the keeper of this small house, of this mental space forever. We need to return to an intimate and thoughtful listening. We deeply need a spiritual rebirth, a self-medication. We must go back to being the only explorers of our deepest essence.

Now you’re in this warm and small space, lost in a forest of paper and smoke.

These three improvisations have been deliberately recorded with worn out equipment: a tiny sampler, a Korg Poly 800, burned and rigorously in mono, a small hand recorder. Rosalegno was recorded directly on a 50-year-old TAYA, where you can hear the decadence of the tape towards the second half of the song and where the wobbling becomes more intense, reminding of a cry.

The album is a tribute to the so called New Age on cassette era, to those old Harmony tapes that accompanied the childhood of some of us. There is a need to revive that self-discovery, knowing how to isolate oneself and believe in what makes us feel really good. That is why the tape version of the album L’abbaglio was multiplied or actually recycled, on old 90's tape albums, so the whole nostalgic feeling, hauntology concept and cassette tribute cycle is complete.

We are the keepers of our mind, forever.

Carlo Giustini is a field recordings, tape manipulator, sound researcher and experimental musician based in Treviso, Italy. His music combines field recordings, warm organic drones and deep haunted sounds caught with contact microphones on micro-cassette recorders and other old audio gear. His previous albums released on the labels Lontano, Shummering Moods, ACR, Purlieu, No Rent and Bad Cake Records, attracted huge attention between the ambient music community.

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released March 27, 2020

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2020 élan vital recordings

mastering: Andrea Porcu
cover design/Polaroid art: Noah M / Keep Adding

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Élan Vital North Macedonia

élan vital recordings is independent Macedonian music label releasing limited edition of handcrafted CDs and tapes from international artists focused on obscure aspects of sound, accompanied with carefully created artwork and video art. Each release will have limited CD or tape edition with hand numbered and stamped artwork. Sister label of post global recordings. ... more

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