Floater by xu
Released on Cathedral Transmissions (CT39).
“My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of sea, and my eyes are the color of water.”
Anaïs Nin, “House of Incest”
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Tracklist
| 1. | To sink (toward the bottom of the eyeball) | 6:08 |
| 2. | Blurred feelings | 10:16 |
| 3. | A submerged female atlas I | 8:57 |
| 4. | A submerged female atlas II | 9:34 |
Credits
released November 21, 2015
All music by Nicola Fornasari.
Improvisations recorded during August 2013 using sine waves generator, piano, guitar, tape loops, piezo-amplified toy psaltery, piezo-box, music boxes, fx and looper pedals.
Edited and mastered between June and September 2015 by Nicola Fornasari.
Picture and layout by Nicola Fornasari.
Packaging design by David Newlyn.
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"[...] La sapiente ed equilibrata miscela di suoni provenienti da fonti eterogenee consente ancora una volta a Fornasari di costruire un viaggio coinvolgente dai forti connotati visivi. Non resta che abbandonarsi a questa epifania di una possibile rinascita, un lento perdersi, per potersi ritrovare ad osservare la realtà da un punto di vista differente."
Peppe Trotta on So What
sowhatmusica.wordpress.com/2015/11/24/xu-floater/
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"Fornasari gets back to us with a new corpus of exceptionally moving and obscure sound collages and immersive drone tapestries. [...] Sound metaphors and projections of memory, nostalgia and reflective ego trip. An interesting work and another fine example of isolationist and grainy dronescaping experience."
Philippe Blache on Igloomag
igloomag.com/reviews/xu-floater-cathedral-transmissions
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"Floater is distinctive and imaginative at the same time. [...] The tone of sine waves and reversed guitar create a nice background for percussive sounds from piezo and processed music boxes. [...] It provides calm yet mysterious atmospheres with a touch of experimental music and free improvisation."
Nhung Nguyen on Cánh đồng âm nhạc
canhdongamnhac.com/post/134119368334/floater-xu
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“Floater si atteggia a rappresentare al meglio il lato più istintivo e minimale dell’artista, espresso nella dimensione di un’improvvisazione elettro-acustica curatissima nei dettagli di ambientazioni sospese e fortemente evocative."
Raffaello Russo on Music won't save you
musicwontsaveyou.com/2015/12/10/xu-floater/
All music by Nicola Fornasari.
Improvisations recorded during August 2013 using sine waves generator, piano, guitar, tape loops, piezo-amplified toy psaltery, piezo-box, music boxes, fx and looper pedals.
Edited and mastered between June and September 2015 by Nicola Fornasari.
Picture and layout by Nicola Fornasari.
Packaging design by David Newlyn.
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"[...] La sapiente ed equilibrata miscela di suoni provenienti da fonti eterogenee consente ancora una volta a Fornasari di costruire un viaggio coinvolgente dai forti connotati visivi. Non resta che abbandonarsi a questa epifania di una possibile rinascita, un lento perdersi, per potersi ritrovare ad osservare la realtà da un punto di vista differente."
Peppe Trotta on So What
sowhatmusica.wordpress.com/2015/11/24/xu-floater/
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"Fornasari gets back to us with a new corpus of exceptionally moving and obscure sound collages and immersive drone tapestries. [...] Sound metaphors and projections of memory, nostalgia and reflective ego trip. An interesting work and another fine example of isolationist and grainy dronescaping experience."
Philippe Blache on Igloomag
igloomag.com/reviews/xu-floater-cathedral-transmissions
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"Floater is distinctive and imaginative at the same time. [...] The tone of sine waves and reversed guitar create a nice background for percussive sounds from piezo and processed music boxes. [...] It provides calm yet mysterious atmospheres with a touch of experimental music and free improvisation."
Nhung Nguyen on Cánh đồng âm nhạc
canhdongamnhac.com/post/134119368334/floater-xu
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“Floater si atteggia a rappresentare al meglio il lato più istintivo e minimale dell’artista, espresso nella dimensione di un’improvvisazione elettro-acustica curatissima nei dettagli di ambientazioni sospese e fortemente evocative."
Raffaello Russo on Music won't save you
musicwontsaveyou.com/2015/12/10/xu-floater/
License
All rights reserved.
Xu is the solo project of Nicola Fornasari. It combines elements of ambient, modern classical, minimalism, drone and field recordings.