Tell me what I need to know about Gigi Masin

https://angophora.bandcamp.com/

getting some Gaussian Curve/Gigi Masin vibes from this Angophora album, posting it here because one of the members is Santilli who is mentioned upthread

I agree, it's so good. the sense of depth/space in some of those tracks is really impressive

― I like signing up to dead sites (sleeve), Thursday, March 25, 2021 12:05 AM (three months ago) bookmarkflaglink

it still offers up new details for me from time to time, especially on headphones. i find myself not wanting to listen to anything else when i want to chill out.

Best album

i've listened to this album over 100 times. extreme safety blanket material for me.

i never look at the track titles but glancing at it now i realize it could be the tracklist of an alternate dimension smashing pumpkins album lol

i'm annoyed at myself for not mentioning suso saiz when i was listing riyl-gigi's. he shares his experimental bona fides (and mediterranean background) and is one of the only ambient artists that rivals gigi masin for subtly, tenderness, endless relistenability etc. his new one, resonant bodies, is so lovely

https://www.soundohm.com/data/products/2022-09/vahine_-_front_cover_rgb-1-jpg.jpg

Widely-loved electronic maestro Gigi Masin returns with ‘Vahinè' – a mini album of beautiful and distinct music that is unmistakably his, sounding better than ever.

Masin always pours his heart into composing, but here it takes on a potent new level of heavy emotion – as it’s a tribute to his late wife, who sadly passed away last year.

“There is a Tahitian dance called ‘Aparima’. It consists of graceful, sinuous and fascinating movements, which tell you stories and legends about love or tradition. The ‘Vahinè' are now dancing, the Tahitian females, with smiles and gestures that could be symbolic or descriptive but are always gentle, harmonious, charming. I was watching this documentary, it was almost 4 in the morning, but I couldn't sleep; I was in front of the television for hours, my wife had passed away the day before, and I was watching hands and arms swaying.

I told myself that maybe it’s so, at the end of the road it’s possible to realize dreams, and I’m sure that she is finally able to dance like never before, and is able to move without any impediment, with no suffering, free to make all the movements that she couldn't make for so long, turning to me with a smile and a wink. So, in the clouds, you will discover and see an extraordinary 'Vahinè', because she will move and dance and smile until the end of time.” Gigi Masin

A future-retro dreamscape where stripes of early evening sun pour through partially closed venetian blinds; kalimba, piano and steel pans meet on the incredibly evocative ‘Marilene (Somewhere in Texas)’.

The Balearic/Italo house heart of ‘Barumini’ throbs throughout a celestial epiphany, whilst ‘Shadye’ is a sun blinded ambient mirage where angelic voices and electric guitar intertwine, before more heavenly music ensues on the trance-like ‘Malvina’.

A heart-wrenchingly beautiful evocation of transitioning to the other side, ‘Valerie Crossing’ is Gigi’s compelling and inspirational take on death, with a vivid evocation of something spiritual, existential and metaphysical. His exemplary approach shows decease not as a cause for despair, but a philosophical and poetic exploration of where souls go, when they leave their earthly bodies.

Masin closes with ‘Vahinè' – a twitchy, levitational piece of sublime deep techno, which transmits high strength vibrations of powerful emotions. On both this track, and the album of the same name, there’ s no pseudo intellectual ambient posturing with cod academic angles tagged on; This is music of real substance, coming from a real place. It’s saturated with feelings, but turns mourning into affecting art, and even a beacon of hope.

https://d1rgjmn2wmqeif.cloudfront.net/r/g/330258.jpg

Posted both images because it's hard to tell which is the official artwork?

Really gutted to hear about his wife though...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2i3CAnlzFc

great news/sad news, thanks for the revive

you're very welcome!

map

wow. saving this for the weekend.

awful news about his wife, poor gigi

btw just in case any here missed it, he makes a guest appearance on the excellent new ron trent album alongside jean luc ponty amongst others...

https://rontrent1.bandcamp.com/album/what-do-the-stars-say-to-you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOqYk8LGuCM

^ video is the track that gigi is on, 'admira'

The single is really beautiful

It's out!

Interview: https://player.fm/series/lost-and-sound/gigi-masin

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