Tell me what I need to know about Gigi Masin

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!

First seven minutes sounds particularly electric Windham Hill-y to me (Peter Maunu, Danny Heines come to mind). Also reminds me of that Jakob Bro guy on ECM. Not hearing any Eno or Ashra at all.

<3, thx NickB... not familiar with that track at all!

If you don't know the two Gaussian Curve records that Gigi did with Jonny Nash and Young Marco, they definitely mine that soundworld, as does some of Jonny Nash's solo stuff (e.g. 'Exit Strategies' from 2015). Also try the album 'Surface' by Santilli that came out last year.

this Youtube is awesome, thanks

that Santilli album is madly underrated

Gigi Masin is my top new musical discovery from lockdown. Just what I need right now.

What type of music do you call this? Is it Balearic? And more recommendations in this style would be appreciated (I've checked out most of the names mentioned above)

music from memory has a great catalog with lots of stuff in this vein

the gaussian curve albums are nice. 'uneven paths' and 'outro tempo' are very good. i don't think i've found anything as deep and beautiful as the stuff on talk to the wind tho tbh.

this is liquefying me

"marilene (somewhere in texas)", i'm voting yes for reverb

He is such a sweet guy

hello barumini, the best track in a future lindstrom set

does lindstrom even dj, maybe i meant prins thomas

Really similar so either one! Gigi can do no wrong

yeah this is terrific, different feel than calypso, maybe a little more stripped back and synthesized overall, but still all of his signature depth and lyricism

https://languageofsound.bandcamp.com/album/vahin

weirdly not on his personal BC page

Strut presents an exclusive new collaboration between UK jazz keyboardist Greg Foat and Venetian ambient / electronic maestro Gigi Masin on ‘Dolphin’:

https://gregfoat.bandcamp.com/album/dolphin

First available track is gorgeous & lush

this is a lovely & luxurious drift, curious to hear how gigi is integrated in the rest of this record

yeah sounds great thx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd-JE_t9_BQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd-JE_t9_BQ

calypso is the one i can't stop listening to lately. it's like every relaxing activity you can imagine - lying in a park and staring at clouds, people watching in a cafe, taking a train ride, watching the tide go out - combined and condensed into one album.

I agree! New Greg Foat collab delivers too!

map have you heard that in full yet? It's gorgeous but with obviously more forward piano which makes it more conventional sounding than a typical Masin record, but still feels very much a part of his universe.

Also must say that Gaussian Curve's The Distance gives me the same romantic-mundane serenity spirit as you described regarding Calypso.

DREAM COLLAB!!

http://13.silentes.it/private_sounds/sps2366.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJyG3AtYQrQ

Heads up, people!

v intrigued

me too

Yeah thanks Evan, ordered it yesterday <3

You're welcome! I also grabbed it right away

I'm going to immure this Masin remix of Eddie Chacon's 'Sundown' in some far chamber of my heart and just let it roll on forever.

Probably not the right thread for it but post/thread on Twitter that would suggest, if true, that Greg Foat is a bit of an arsehole

Just Greg Foat losing his mind at me for posting on FB about my Louder Than War best albums inclusion and saying that it can be pretty challenging and thankless promoting records as an independent artist.

First he dropped a little public post about it, now he’s in my DMs. pic.twitter.com/zyUCQIfohb

— Scrimshire (@scrimshire) December 4, 2023

wtf business is it of Foat's if some website listed scrimshire's album on their best of list? what an ass

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

I read that entire thread and I'm still not exactly clear about what it is Foat is upset about

Holy heck, what repellant behaviour

I lol'd at "wet wipe", though. There's got to be more to this saga.

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