Gigi Masin - Lontano (2001)

01) Intro

02) Valerie Loop

03) When Julia Smiles

04) Miren Maitea

05) Coltrane

06) Krill

07) Lovloop

08) Hiris

09) Sunshine Breakfast

10) Parallel Lines

11) Lontano

12) Waterblue

13) Watamu

14) The Jean Plan

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The music of this CD came from the period 1990-1992, with two titles coming back from the eighties.
Masin’s poetry turn around the expanded sense of time of his compositions. The music emerges from silence and to silence return. The pieces are suspended moments in the stream of time, shots of a personal sounding journey that show itself in a clear form. All the tracks seems coming from a “limbo”, a no man’s land of the eternal time, with a magical, and imaginative, character.
The first element is the “imagination”: the imagination of the author, who tends to photograph and short-circuit, in the repetition, the sound particles, and the imagination of the listener, discreetly pervaded by the music. The slow minimalist sequences, the looping and lyrical melodies, the obstinate electronic cadences, are the sounding signs of Masin. Signs of the simplicity and, at the same time, the depth of sound.
Gigi Masin: keyboards, piano, guitar, tapes; Marco Barel: tenor sax; Jim Martyniack: spoken words.