Agreed 2nd is my favorite
― Evan, Monday, 15 June 2020 11:38 (four years ago) link
Would also recommend Steve Hiett, Vini Reilly/The Durutti Column and Wally Badarou in terms of other '80s people with a similiar-enough sensibility if you haven't heard any of them yet
― call mr zbow that's my name that name again is mr zbow (Craig D.), Monday, 15 June 2020 13:11 (four years ago) link
Suso Saiz too
― Evan, Monday, 15 June 2020 13:28 (four years ago) link
For sure--looks like the MfM bases are covered, though
― call mr zbow that's my name that name again is mr zbow (Craig D.), Monday, 15 June 2020 13:51 (four years ago) link
Figured it was worth highlighting
― Evan, Monday, 15 June 2020 13:57 (four years ago) link
xps talk to the sea lol. i've got memory worms
― crystal-brained yogahead (map), Monday, 15 June 2020 17:39 (four years ago) link
Thanks for the recommendations! Those Test Pressing playlists are an absolute goldmine
― paolo, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 11:45 (four years ago) link
I like the second Gaussian Curve album best too. I've also been feeling Gigi's albums with Tempelhof.
The first album from Young Marco (other other guy in Gaussian) is nice too, though a little clubber. Still chill though.
Love the second Gaussian Curve album.
― cooldix, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 13:28 (four years ago) link
Clubber? Clubbier.
― cooldix, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 14:46 (four years ago) link
Young Marco's a great DJ but I've not been too impressed with his solo productions. I'll check it out though.
― paolo, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 16:28 (four years ago) link
yeah I love that first album biology
― brimstead, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 16:31 (four years ago) link
Do check out his wonderful Welcome To Paradise Italian Dream House comps tho if you haven't already xp
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 18:00 (four years ago) link
both of marco's lps are excellent
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 17 June 2020 20:53 (four years ago) link
'Suzaku' off Biology is a gorgeous summery synthpop thing and was well ahead of curve on that sort of YMO-ish tip afaicr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQakVMy6fHo
― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 21:01 (four years ago) link
i think they're both comparably great, but i may actually prefer the first gaussian curve album!
― dyl, Thursday, 18 June 2020 04:00 (four years ago) link
I’d also check out Jonny Nash + Suzanne Kraft. Jonny Nash and Masin did an album together iirc
― willem, Saturday, 20 June 2020 09:04 (four years ago) link
Jason Kolar's Modified Perspectives on the stroom label is similar to gm's sound, w/o any drum programming. really nice.
― tomorrow, Saturday, 20 June 2020 14:42 (four years ago) link
I'd not heard Suzanne Kraft until now. Perfect.
And I'm probably being daft but is Kraft a Johnny Nash pseudonym?
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Sunday, 21 June 2020 11:01 (four years ago) link
Sheeeiiit: Talk from Home was only released on vinyl and is currently going for around £80 on Discogs.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Sunday, 21 June 2020 11:02 (four years ago) link
two different people, they've made several albums together. i would recommend nash's label in general to gigi lovers: https://melodyastruth.bandcamp.com/
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Sunday, 21 June 2020 14:09 (four years ago) link
several releases i should say
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Sunday, 21 June 2020 14:12 (four years ago) link
Lewis "L'amour" - its not the closest sounding stuff the way Jonny Nash and Suzanne Kraft are, but it has the same sense of otherworldly stillness as Masin's more song-structured releases
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 21 June 2020 15:41 (four years ago) link
In a similar way, K. Leimer and Beverley Glenn-Copeland slot alongside this stuff for me - not as lush but atmospherically similar
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 21 June 2020 15:45 (four years ago) link
Bit off topic but Diego Herrera (Suzanne Kraft) was also in a really good band called Pharaohs who out some great records like the album In Oeland on Mark Barrott's International Feel label. Lush neo-tropical sounds but quite uptempo - kind of a (Japanese) Mariah vibe?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caoUAfVO2Ys
On more of a Gigi tip, I've really been enjoying the album La Calle Roja by Pablo Color which came out last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTgUQ_Sawag
― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Sunday, 21 June 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link
Missum is indeed just utterly beautiful, even when not hungover. I totally get the Lewis comparison Boxedjoy, and am glad you dished it out.
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 21 June 2020 16:39 (four years ago) link
My rockist stan is looking for a name for this kind of stuff. New Age isn't cutting it. I'm cautiously distancing myself from it but my unconscious just barked 'Digital Pastoral' at me.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Sunday, 21 June 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link
I like Haunted Weather but I think Toop would barf.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Sunday, 21 June 2020 17:13 (four years ago) link
nu age
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Sunday, 21 June 2020 17:23 (four years ago) link
beach synth
― sleeve, Sunday, 21 June 2020 17:23 (four years ago) link
my playlist of this stuff is called Hungover At Yoga
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 21 June 2020 18:36 (four years ago) link
Yeah that Pablo Color album is super nice!!
― brimstead, Sunday, 21 June 2020 18:38 (four years ago) link
A lot of this music makes me think of the events that Labradford curated in London way back when under the banner 'Festival of Dritfing' and you'd get electronic stuff ranging from Eno ambient to dub techno from Pole but also textural guitar-based acts like Durutti Column and David Pajo and John Martyn. Gigi Masin feels like a Mediterranean extension of that, but I've come to think of them all basically as ~ d r i f t w a v e ~
― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Sunday, 21 June 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuHsXcmd6gg
the whole satoshi & makoto album is incredible, but this track in particular is all time
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 22 June 2020 16:36 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4kfGw7agMg
the e ruscha v album from a few years ago also fits this vibe
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 22 June 2020 16:51 (four years ago) link
not quite as smooth and effortless though
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 22 June 2020 16:52 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls2F59qCKmA
wilson tanner - 69. the more recent II is good as well, but i go back to 69 more. i had a pretty memorable experience staring at a pillow made out of an old sweater to this album while my mind was quite altered
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 22 June 2020 16:56 (four years ago) link
i mean, pillows are amazing, makes sense
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Monday, 22 June 2020 17:00 (four years ago) link
yeah there’s a few tracks on that first Wilson Tanner that just kill merelatedly, the last Eleventeen Eston album (By The Water is really nice
― brimstead, Monday, 22 June 2020 17:01 (four years ago) link
I love that Lawrence quote where he’s all “I just want to spend all day in a dreamy haze staring at beautiful album covers”
― brimstead, Monday, 22 June 2020 17:02 (four years ago) link
a couple more essential albums in this vein:
wolf mueller & cass - the sound of the glades (the title track is an incredible slow-build prog ambient journey)art wilson - overworld (aka andras fox, was composed for a contemporary dance piece and the sun signs of the dancers involved are listed on the sleeve)
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 22 June 2020 17:03 (four years ago) link
I'm listening to Suzanne Kraft's Talk from Home and it just struck me that one of the missing pieces in this thread is Rothko. Flatiron, in all its spreading, plangent beauty is pure Rothko.
Plangent is one of those words that needs to be banned from music criticism but sometimes it's the only word for the job.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 08:45 (four years ago) link
Thanks for all the recommendations. I was listening to Jonny Nash's RA mix yesterday and that would fit in with this vibe. It's all his own work, including a collab with ol' Gigi himself
― paolo, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 14:02 (four years ago) link
Very thankful Gigi was one of the very last shows I saw before the pandemic.
― Evan, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 14:28 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BE9jXUSreQ
fools - source
new one on music from memory with a gorgeous music video
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 1 July 2020 17:48 (four years ago) link
How was Gigi when you saw him Evan? The one time I saw him was a laptop performance in an empty and oppressive-feeling venue and I found it somewhat hard to engage with
― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 17:55 (four years ago) link
He was fantastic! Yeah you need the ideal space to engage for sure. I saw him here:
https://www.svconline.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Public-Records-4-726x484.jpg
...which helped
― Evan, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link
cor look at those speakers!
― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 20:55 (four years ago) link
Is that public records?
― badg, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 21:39 (four years ago) link
yes!
― Evan, Thursday, 2 July 2020 05:39 (four years ago) link