Tell me what I need to know about Gigi Masin

hmmm, newish album. free download. don't mind if i do

http://www.laverna.net/releases/Lav22.html

I shoulda put bjork and to rococo rot have sampled him and he sounds like Blue Nile in the title to get people to post.

Loving the new comp and the collaboration with Tempelhof. Also, this particular act of generosity was very welcome (see comments from youtube poster):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4Ws3jTM_cQ

Is "Call Me" the EXACT midpoint between Blue Nile and Bark Psychosis or

i've had the music from memory comp on preorder for an eternity now, is it finally out?

The 2CD is supposedly out this week in the US.

is there anything else he's done that has vocals like Call Me? the rest of Wind is great too but I was disappointed there wasn't anything else like it

'snake theory' and 'almanac' both have vocals

Is "Call Me" the EXACT midpoint between Blue Nile and Bark Psychosis or

was pleased to find he put blue nile on this dj mix, posted previously in the balearic thread.

https://soundcloud.com/kocmoc-manifesto/gigi-masin

That Gigi mix is crazy diverse.

so i've contacted gigi on facebook to confirm there's no way i can buy it: does anyone have a copy of the gigi/charles hayward album that's not all hissy and pissy like the only rip i can find? would rather not shell out for a rare LP i have no way of playing and shipping to seoul...

if so pleeeez email me jakob dot dorof at gee mail i will find some way to reward you :'(

also "clouds" is god-tier new age synth music, like top five of the genre status...just incredible

Check your email, Jakob.

Wind is soooooo great

yeah it is another dazzler after Talk To The Sea, really need to hear more of his stuff.

i've been hopelessly addicted to talk to the sea... another mix of his here: http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-releases/vf-vinyl-mix-19-gigi-masin/

haven't got the new one yet - must remedy that.

I hadn't realized that Music From Memory just released the digital download of the remastered Wind:

http://music-from-memory.bandcamp.com/album/wind-3

Wind is soooooo great

― boxedjoy, Tuesday, December 22, 2015 5:29 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What the... I've just been binge listening to Wind since yesterday and I'm halfway through it again now!

cosign the love

also "clouds" is god-tier new age synth music, like top five of the genre status...just incredible

― soyrev

Just listened to this song for the first time and just had one of those moments where I had heard this song before... and indeed, I had. The synth line has been sampled by both Nujabes and To Rococo Rot, the latter shamelessly structuring a whole song around that one loop. Funny how these days you can hear a song for the first time, but still get that deja vu sense due to its use elsewhere. My favorite recent example is hearing Bernard Fevre's song Earth Message for the first time and realizing The Chemical Brothers song Got Glint not only samples it, but essentially covers it in the chorus.

new Gaussian Curve album is out, excellent

How does it compare to Clouds?

i love it. definitely comparable, maybe even better.

high praise! thanks. I was probably gonna buy it anyway but good to know

yeah, I feel like these guys just get it

https://soundcloud.com/duyaka/kashemes-livingroom-live-session-with-gigi-masin-music-from-memory

Kasheme's Livingroom Session with Gigi Masin

new self-released album on Bandcamp:

Dear friends..

Recently I have been thinking about what 'a change' means. Whether it's a turning corner of keeping on walking straight down the road, or a ship adapting its course to the winds and waves, or a kite dancing in the air one step away from the clouds. I'm thinking about new passages, further destinations, new places to reach.. but I still have a bag full of memories: unique people I've met, smiles, hugs, projects.. Maybe a change is like crossing a bridge, following a kite that finds its meaning in the wind, its motive for searching the horizon and stealing another dream. This collection contains some songs that I've made in the past few years, written to talk about dreams and love while waiting for new colors and new music. It's like looking back at a garden of roses and flowers, hoping the next lawn is just as beautiful and bright.

http://masin.bandcamp.com/album/kite

Love everything Gigi has done, but refuse to pay ten euros for a download

happy to give gigi money but a bit reluctant to buy the download if there's a chance that it might get a physical release. what i've heard sounds good though!

Yeah, would gladly pay three times that for an LP of this material

heads up london folk:

http://thejazzcafelondon.com/event/gigi-masin

yesss

https://masin.bandcamp.com/album/calypso

About to see him! Like now

I please tell him hello for me

I will try! I assume you don’t actually know him

how was he?

SO good. Lots of relatively upbeat numbers. I’m sure much of it will be on the new album.

Really enjoying Calypso. It's so long though, I'm only just spending time with the second half.

ooh, didn't realise this had been released now

so good

some of this is really good but some of it sounds distractingly like the most dated parts of 90s trip-hop, the melodies and pad sounds are great and this is probably better than like 80% of anything I'll hear all year though

Haha, definitely had the same thought re. dated '90s touchstones. There's a LOT of good stuff though.

"Khalifa golf club" is the standout jam imo

He did a live thing the other day and I was surprised by how much it reminded of *something*... but I couldn't put my finger on what it was (Gottsching? Eno? Papa M? Fennesz?)

If you have time, listen to the first 7 minutes of this and please tell me what other artist/works it sounds like (RIYL?):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm9r0vIZYUw

ISO slow, heavy reverb ambient guitar over soft drum machine?

the chords themselves (through the first 2 minutes, at least) sound quite a bit like "Sugar for the Pill" from the reunion Slowdive album

ok, that was a terrible reference. the rest of it sounds nothing like that, sorry

haha awesome - that's a cover of 'small hours' by john martyn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYLVM560Fok

+100000 points to NickB!

Feels like there's a really big hole in the plot here. Otherwise it's a completely random attack by GF,which is insane.

― sawdust lagoon, Monday, 4 December 2023 21:58 (yesterday) link

Yeah unless there is more context to their beef I would otherwise assume alcohol or something. But it certainly seems like Greg had already had a major bone to pick with him.

ANYWHO the Masin / Modell collab record is so beautiful maybe let's focus back on that

Actually it’s my favorite album of the year?

New Gaussian Curve!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z00JUECdYyk

Truth be told, I'm feeling a bit emotionally fragile right now and also still finding Jamie's death hard to process so that was a hard (but very beautiful) listen

gorgeous <3

<3

Ah there's more info on what this is on Gigi's insta:

https://www.instagram.com/p/C2KLKRzsAOV/?igsh=MWF1eGhhOHk4NTV6NQ==

Out today :)

Fever Dream is great and actually has some vocals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QfMkHwHRc8

The RSD exclusive release from Gigi & Greg Float is now available digitally (and on streaming services)

https://gregfoat.bandcamp.com/album/the-fish-factory-sessions

https://silentes.bandcamp.com/album/implodendo-in-una-accecante-oscurit-pt-1
https://silentes.bandcamp.com/album/implodendo-in-una-accecante-oscurit-pt-2

New music!

wow

this is fucking beautiful and it's the equivalent of a full-length!

no one makes sustained string and horn drones as gorgeous and depthless as gigi does, he is truly one of a kind.

looking forward to this

lumen 08 sounds like nirvana. the state not the band.

this thing is just exquisite imo. some tracks sound kinda related to 'calypso' but in general this is more languid and spacious. massive drifting clouds. i had a stars of the lid feel once or twice during my first listen through. total runtime of both parts is 1:14.

yeah I gotta dive in again

I haven’t given it a full listen quite yet but went ahead and ordered both parts right away. Easy decision.

Yeah it's fantastic

:)

implodendo tracks are just.. something else. so good.

is anyone else listening to this? it's so beautiful. lumen 10 is perfect music.

You know it! A treasure.

listening this afternoon, this really is lovely and my fave since Calypso

if i want to feel calmer, gigi masin's music is what i put on. no music makes me feel calmer more reliably.

map! sleeve!

https://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/products/sbr-382-gigi-masin-movement

haha yes I saw that, ty

trying really hard to get off the new releases treadmill but I will certainly give this a listen when it's out

yay

Good bump!

i checked out the preview track "lost" on the bandcamp release page. it sounds amazing, definitely more beat-forward than what he has been doing lately but still with the classic langorous masin depth and stillness featuring one of my favorite instruments he floats away on, the trumpet. sounding kinda like a new thing rather than the "unreleased deeper calypso" sound of the implodendo tracks.

https://masin.bandcamp.com/album/movement

glad to see he's releasing this on sacred bones.

Yeah that was a bit of a surprise!

this is lovely!

i really haven't kept up with his output over the last decade, which albums are most worth listening to?

"lost" reminds me of the best bits of kaputt

if you don't know Calypso, start there!

yes calypso and the collection that evan linked in december. there are some collaborations that are good too but i think those are the main ones.

I loved was his collab with rod modell a lot.

I would start with Snake Theory.

Idk how others feel but I think he is a proper all-time artist. A genius.

absolutely! watching some of his live performances further confirmed that for me. he has clear access to a certain channel.

new album is out! definitely a lot more rhythm as advertised. the drum patterns are great. there may be computers involved, idk, but the feel is very synth-heavy. lots of space and reverb around everything as per usual. 'the age of sampling' has huge snare 80s industrial beats, dark synth pads and processed vocals - approaching the feel of that new boards of canada album in a way. some of the other tracks have more of a house/tech tempo - gigi doing dj tools - not a bad thing at all. definitely more propulsive than i'm accustomed to with his music. the beats themselves i like, they're spacious and organic and unfussy. and ofc the endless drift of his pads and trumpet playing stopping time above the rhythms. it's nice to hear him do something a little more dancefloor-oriented - 'deception dance' is a technoid heater that could really work in a dj set. but still unmistakably him.

this is not at all what I expected to hear abt the new one!

i don't think it's going to be my favorite release of his though it's likely a grower. i hope it opens some more doors for him this late in his career.

the only thing i'm not really loving about this is that there is a lot of very noticeable sidechain compression around the beats, presumably to give them a lot more presence. especially noticeable on "movement" and "the age of sampling". awful fluttering in and out of all the lovely pads and ambient float in 'movement'. i don't know how this all came together but it sort of feels like maybe the idea to make a beat-heavy record wasn't gigi's or something. or if it was, the execution is off because gigi isn't really a beats producer. any drum machines that have appeared in his work previous to this were just another instrumental element, not the backbone of a track.

this is the only gigi miss i've encountered so far. and there's still some good stuff on it (the more ambient pieces). as far as the beat-heavy tracks go, i still really like "dance of deception". but i have to admit that overall i'm a little disappointed.

that multi-artist release from late last year, "Implodendo in una accecante oscurità" - which seemed like it might be a minor entry in Gigi's discography, since it isn't a full-length album in his own name or anything - is just about his masterpiece afaict, including the early stuff. i do really love his shorter "songs" from that period, where he sang (i miss his beautiful, breathy singing voice), but the way the Implodendo tracks stretch out comfortably in another dimension for a full hour plus is him at his best imo.

yeah, this is a weird one. I generally like but don't love most of his stuff with a few exceptions (eg love the rod modell collab) but was intrigued by the beats because, well, I like beats. but this is a strange release. fwiw I've only given it a cursory listen so far, buy yeah, I'd agree that it doesn't seem like a great fit for him for whatever reason...