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 (three years ago) link
several releases i should say
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Sunday, 21 June 2020 14:12 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three years ago) link
I like Haunted Weather but I think Toop would barf.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Sunday, 21 June 2020 17:13 (three years ago) link
nu age
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Sunday, 21 June 2020 17:23 (three years ago) link
beach synth
― sleeve, Sunday, 21 June 2020 17:23 (three years ago) link
my playlist of this stuff is called Hungover At Yoga
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 21 June 2020 18:36 (three years ago) link
Yeah that Pablo Color album is super nice!!
― brimstead, Sunday, 21 June 2020 18:38 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three years ago) link
not quite as smooth and effortless though
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 22 June 2020 16:52 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three years ago) link
cor look at those speakers!
― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 20:55 (three years ago) link
Is that public records?
― badg, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 21:39 (three years ago) link
yes!
― Evan, Thursday, 2 July 2020 05:39 (three years ago) link
Great room, I hope they manage to reopen OK
― badg, Thursday, 2 July 2020 14:52 (three years ago) link
Agreed, it seems they're keeping active with their online presence so hopefully things are generally alright behind the scenes.
But yeah Gigi sounded great there and he was super nice.
Definitely my favorite artist in this scene. He walks the line between calm pensive / moody so well; other musicians often just go full mopey doctor-drama-theme-music when they try to do the same. He has a good taste for emotional melodies while at the same time not sounding too gloomy. But for that reason his tunes stick better to me than most of the music in this genre. I feel like that's why he stands out.
― Evan, Thursday, 2 July 2020 15:10 (three years ago) link
late to the party here but spent a lot of time this year listening to both Gaussian Curve albums wandering a pretty isolated beach town and I prefer Clouds over The Distance by a small margin. Both are lovely but "Ride" and "Impossible Island" are hard to beat. "Suspended Motion" is incredible though.
― gman59, Monday, 3 August 2020 23:00 (three years ago) link
yes I would like one late pass on these Gaussian Curve albums, please
― sleeve, Monday, 3 August 2020 23:13 (three years ago) link
I made a post on Instagram yesterday gushing over Clouds and Gigi commented that we might get a new Gaussian something (album?) at some point
"Thanks!! A lot!.. Gaussians? they could come back suddenly.. who knows?! 😎"
So, that's awesome. Maybe this was known but it's news to me.
― gman59, Tuesday, 4 August 2020 22:43 (three years ago) link
Paolo mentioned this over on the ambient thread but think it'd fit here. Romeo Poirier - Hotel Nota. Lots of warm bubbly glitch, the overall aesthetic of which sorts of edges into Masin territory at times.
https://sferic.bandcamp.com/album/hotel-nota
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 14 September 2020 08:32 (three years ago) link
calypso is crazy good. can't believe it took me this long to get to it. he really is one of a kind.
― ffolkes (map), Saturday, 26 December 2020 00:31 (three years ago) link
My favorite album of the year
― Evan, Saturday, 26 December 2020 04:10 (three years ago) link
I wouldn't have got through 2020 without Gigi Masin but it wasn't Calypso I was listening to
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 26 December 2020 10:18 (three years ago) link
That's fine but do you not like Calypso?
― Evan, Saturday, 26 December 2020 15:50 (three years ago) link
I'm not answering for boxedjoy but I will say I typically get more out of Gaussian Curve than Gigi solo
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 26 December 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link
hard disagree. i like gaussian curve a lot but i think his solo material is on another level. his new album doesn't throw out a welcome mat, it's kinda restless overall and is very much in a high-mid register eq-wise but it's such a rich, tense bridge between ambient concepts and experimental / jazz facility w/ the kind of elegant, intuitive phrasing that makes his music so compelling, i still think he's head and shoulders above the genre he's sort of given birth to over the past decade.
― ffolkes (map), Saturday, 26 December 2020 21:44 (three years ago) link
― Evan, Saturday, December 26, 2020 4:10 AM (seventeen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
lol something i agree with Evan about ;)
!!! Is this surprising?
― Evan, Saturday, 26 December 2020 22:13 (three years ago) link
Winky face acknowledged however am I known for my dumb opinions?
― Evan, Sunday, 27 December 2020 02:03 (three years ago) link
no no i just disagree with you sometimes on those dang politics threads
― ffolkes (map), Sunday, 27 December 2020 02:09 (three years ago) link
sorry didn't mean to be weird
Oh! I sometimes post on those, and if so it’s usually a dumb joke or shitpost.
― Evan, Sunday, 27 December 2020 02:12 (three years ago) link
well anyway calypso is cosmic bliss and kind of mysterious and sad and it's perfect imo. one thing that comes to mind, apropos of not much, and i don't mean to be *that guy*, but i feel like people might not realize gigi has experimental music bona fides, has collaborated with people like charles hayward, and that's kind of part and parcel with with his solo work too... feel like that comes through more on this album idk.
― ffolkes (map), Sunday, 27 December 2020 02:16 (three years ago) link
Sorry for making you feel weird. It was just a mini-rollercoaster for me. "I'm finally established enough here after 11 years to have recognizable opinions?? Wow neat because I've never really felt a par-...oh I see he is simply confusing me with someone else."
Anyway, I agree he has experimental credentials that contribute value to his music, but I'm not sure it's an entirely unique feature vs. other artists that do the same (many of which are also on the wonderful MFM label as a broad example). To me it's actually his moving melodies that help him stand out among that pack of minimal experimental musicians, not the other way around (AKA experimentation making him stand out among ambient artists).
― Evan, Monday, 4 January 2021 22:06 (three years ago) link