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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 
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Epochales Ambient-Album. Dass einem diese Formulierung überhaupt 2009 noch über die Lippen kommt, ist schon beeindruckend genug, aber dieses von Fabio Orsi und dem australischen Trio Seaworthy ist derart perfekt runtergedampft, dass einem keine andere Wahl bleibt. Herrlich flächig und freundlich, bietet die CD lediglich Platz für drei ihrer ausgedehnten Tracks. Hier ist nichts böse, nichts dunkel, hier knarzt nichts. Die Stücke erstrecken sich scheinbar endlos in feinen Molekülen der Genialität, der Ruhe und der Gewissheit, dass es für so einen Sound einfach nie zu spät ist. Ein sehr erwachsenes, abgehangenes Album, das jeder Situation genau den richtigen Funken Stille verpasst. Ganz automatisch.
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9 out of 10
A split album as split albums should be - a collaboration of thoughts and emotions bound together in a river of notes and sounds. Split is quite clearly the wrong word as Near and Faraway is about bridging the gap of time and space (something that we have never lived in a better era to do).

Ambience as ambient should be; soft, gentle, swaying, pierced by breathing peaks and sighs. Evening by Evening comes from Fabio Orsi (the northern hemispheres representative) and is a forlornly uplifting mesh of guitars, keyboards and samples that blend and weave together forming a dense yet therapeutic sound that blows into your ear like the fresh salty sea air on a glitteringly golden day. Precious and permissive.

The title track is perfectly sandwiched between each acts 'solo' (so to speak) effort and is an amalgamation of rushing guitars and soaring drones - an instrumental Jesu sans beats. This does not so much attack the senses as glide along them, flirtatiously flicking its hair and beckoning with the slow motion curling of a glistening finger. Birds chirruping at the ten minute mark announce the arrival of Explosions in the Sky type reverb drenched guitar work that threatens to spill its murky waters on this glacier like canvas. Embracing an aesthetic that is as much about patience as it is the journey; each modulation becomes a pair of ankle-wings lifting you at every step. They have successfully created music to fill the gulf between their respective nations and in doing so a sound as enveloping as Sunn0))) has been born, in fact you could argue this is the Yang to Sunn0)))'s Yin, which of course suggests that they both contain small elements of each other (Alice per example).

Branch and Stone - the third track on this album is certainly a darker affair as heavy feedback oscillates, playing around at the lower ends of the scale, occasionally heading to brown note territory but never without due care and always leaning to invite the listener on.

Thoughtful and tribadistic.






Fabio Orsi & Seaworthy - "Evening By Evening (excerpt)" (Near and Faraway)

In drone and especially ambient music, the ability to eschew a mechanical or electronic sensation while producing heavily manipulated sound cannot be underestimated. It withdraws the point of origination from the sound, leaving only calmly wavering tones propagating through your environment. The reticent music begins to feel like nature, or at the least, an amplifier to the great aesthetic of nature (rural, urban or otherwise).

It’s hard to refer to anything post-minimalism, experimental ambient or the like as groundbreaking or even necessarily new 30 years in, but well-crafted albums in that vein continue to mesmerize the best of us. Italy’s Fabio Orsi and Australia’s Cameron Webb, both ever-keen to collaborate, have surpassed the “promising” era of their young careers. Their first release together, Near and Faraway – a definite mesmerizer – utilizes a Venn diagram approach. It allows the listener to not only analyze each musician’s plateau (one that reaches the upper echelons of the genre), but how the separate styles can congeal for an even more impressive sound.

Orsi’s solo piece, “Evening by Evening,” builds off a simple rhythmic ping. Thick, tempestuous chords of synthesized strings inflate and puncture throughout, while momentary hints of birdcalls or children’s voices repeatedly call into question exactly where these sounds emanate from. Orsi, as he’s done many times before, dissolves his presence from the song and leaves it to our surroundings.

Webb, as Seaworthy (which includes the additional talents of Sam Shinazzi and Greg Bird), creates a parallel vibe with “Branch and Stone.” With softer synthetic crescendos and subtler tones, Webb brings to life a more placid, though no less vivid sonic environment. Passing rumbles of low frequencies drift in the background, as glimpsing guitar melodies and delicate feedback saunter across the fore. One can’t help but picture a landscape eerily still and awkwardly settling just minutes after being ravaged by a severe storm.

When the two artists combine their talents for the title track (bookended by the individually-produced pieces), a middle ground is formed, evening the shortcomings of each contributor. Orsi’s dramatic crescendos are tempered and staggered by Webb’s more understated approach. This makes the central climax all the more gripping when it is finally unleashed. Suddenly Webb’s setting flips from directly after the storm to right before it. And it’s one you can’t help staring motionless at as it looms forward, the great wonder of nature ruthlessly tumbling in yourdirection. www.dustedmagazine.com

By Michael Ardaiolo

Fabio Orsi & Seaworthy
Near And Faraway
(Low Point / Import)

Présenté comme une collaboration, Near And Faraway s’avance en réalité comme un véritable disque partagé : trois longs morceaux au total, un pour Fabio Orsi, un pour Seaworthy et celui du milieu joué ensemble. Si le groupe australien a déjà pu être évoqué à plusieurs reprises dans ces pages, le musicien italien n’avait, pour sa part et malgré ses très nombreux disques parus depuis 2006, pas encore été chroniqué ici.

C’est précisément Fabio Orsi qui ouvre les débats avec une pièce ambient formée de classiques nappes de guitares, de textures évoluant assez doucement, de cette récurrente sensation de flux et reflux. Rien de très différent, donc, de ce que l’auditeur a déjà pu entendre chez nombre d’artistes, mais une introduction tout à fait soignée à la pièce centrale du disque, véritable attente de cette collaboration. Composée à distance par échanges successifs de fichiers musicaux, ce morceau-titre débute, dans une certaine continuité avec son prédécesseur, par une nouvelle nappe de guitare, parcourue de quelques gazouillements d’oiseaux. Après une dizaine de minutes d’oscillations de cet ordre, une guitare électrique se détache et pendant quelques instants occupe seule l’espace sonore de ses notes détachées et profondément mélancoliques. Puis, irrémédiablement, les nappes reviennent, accompagnées cette fois-ci de quelques petites triturations.

Enfin, sur Branch And Stone, c’est le trio australien qui opère, dans un registre encore plus apaisé, nécessitant même de monter le volume d’écoute, afin de percevoir correctement les quelques notes s’échappant du lointain continuum mis en place. Enfin, sur le modèle du titre précédent, la guitare se fait de plus en plus identifiable marquant là la grande cohérence de l’ensemble de l’album. www.etherreal.com


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An epic understatement expressed through blissful drones, Near and Faraway is a collaborative album between Italian sound-sculptor Fabio Orsi and Australian ambient artist Seaworthy (Cameron Webb). For this release, the artists each composed their own piece and then worked together for a third, yielding gorgeously earnest results that can invoke the smell of wet grass in outer space.

Fabio Orsi plots a course for the solar wheel of everything on his opening piece "Evening by Evening", as majestic layers of guitar drone and keyboard alchemy fill the infinite vacuum of perpetual midnight. Orsi is based in Berlin these days, but it sounds like he is somewhere between Atlantis and Virgo. Stretching out like a galaxy in a hammock, this track puts the listener somewhere "faraway" to yearn affectionately for something to touch. It all sounds too big to comprehend, ebbing and flowing with a slender grace that maintains your existence as a miniscule yet buoyant speck in the goulash of natural order. Orsi sure likes to bliss out, constantly shifting attention and spectrums ever so subtly. Before you know it, a duck flies by. What? Are we on Earth again? Perhaps somewhere in the clouds, slowly descending toward something more familiar. Yes, yes, I hear children playing. Thank you gravity!

Birds begin to sing, and the tides of "near" begin to draw close. The collaborative title track sounds much like a rushing river of fog, Orsi's cosmic sigh being softly plucked by Seaworthy's distant and hopeful guitar. Dreamy to be sure, though I favor the solo tracks simply for their more distinctive voices. It is lovely to hear these two artists blend together so seamlessly with the birds singing throughout, but the album is blessed by the fact that they didn't end with this one.

While Orsi works with a grand, twilit luster, Seaworthy tends toward the microcosmic. For the final piece "Branch and Stone", Webb plays very close to the inner ear, utilizing a couple of other musician friends Sam Shinazzi and Greg Bird. Fitting is the name Seaworthy, as the minimal use of bowed instruments and haunted ribbons of drone invoke a stranded soul drifting out to sea. You can almost picture the doomed raft on the horizon, the hunger pangs beginning to feel ecstatic, a lifetime coalescing with the knowledge of its steady demise. Ridiculously personal and gorgeous, this track is the real keeper. I haven't heard Seaworthy before, but his last album, 1897, inspired one reviewer to write a poem, and I'd venture anything Cameron Webb writes henceforth is worth investigating. The space he can create within his careful and relaxed tinkering is quite breathtaking.

With each track clocking in at over fifteen minutes, there is plenty of space to settle into. If you're not in dream-drone heaven then you probably are of the darker drone persuasion. This release really hits the spot and is a sleeper hit for ambient record of the year. Definitely recommended for fans of Stars of the Lid, Hammock, and all things wide open and sweet.  www.thesilentballet.com

-Nayt Keane




Fabio Orsi and Seaworthy: Near and Faraway
Low Point

As the title indicates, Near And Faraway bridges the significant geographical gap separating Italian producer and currently Berlin-based Fabio Orsi and Sydney, Australia trio Seaworthy (responsible for the recent 12k release 1897) through long-distance file-sharing. Nicely structured, the fifty-one-minute release bookends the titular collaboration with a solo work by each artist, Orsi's placed first and Seaworthy's third.

Orsi uses guitars, keyboards, and effects to generate the heavenly ambiance of “Evening By Evening,” the album's opening piece and the most powerful of the three. Throughout its sixteen becalmed minutes, sustained, upper-register tones blend into willowy, cloud-like masses and whistling tones exhale amidst gently surging chords. As it moves towards its close, the sound mass slowly intensifies as layers accumulate and natural sounds of children's voices appear. Orsi's piece is a mastefully sculpted work and a prime exemplar of the soundscaping style. The equally lovely collaboration, “Near And Faraway,” also weaves long-form tendrils of guitars and processed sounds into a nebulous, shimmering mass. The loveliest moment in this case comes ten minutes in when a clearing in the mist allows delicate guitar tones to be heard before the mass moves in again to dominate. “Branch And Stone,” the contribution from Seaworthy (core member Cameron Webb supplemented by Sam Shinazzi and Greg Bird) severely strips the dense sound of the other two tracks down so that treated guitar sounds are almost all that's left. In the album's most low-level setting, tonal elements stretch out in ultra-elongated manner until only little more than textural shadings of guitar remain. With forward momentum gradually disappearing altogether, the effect is like twilight setting in and the shades being drawn.

The album undergoes an interesting trajectory in moving from the full-bodied opener to the slightly less epic centerpiece before slowing to the even more restrained closer. Though each of the pieces falls within the fifteen-to-twenty-minute range, each is clearly different in character while at the same time preserving signature characteristics of the artists involved. All told, Near And Faraway is a strong collection from simpatico collaborators that's worth acquiring purely on the basis of Orsi's piece alone.  www.textura.org

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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 
''A beautiful split and collaboration from Italy's Fabio Orsi and Australia's Seaworthy. It's a very well-matched pairing and each contributes one track here and collaborates on another. The result is a crepuscular ever-shifting soundscape that makes me think of low mist rolling through a forest and Angelo Badalmenti's soundtrack to Twin Peaks with a bit of Yellow 6's horizonless dronescapes thrown in.'' Boa Melody Bar

''The latest offering from Low Point comes from Fabio Orsi and Seaworthy in the form of the 'Near and Faraway' disc which is currently calming the office after another bloody hectic day. It consists of three parts, the first of which is 'Evening By Evening' which is totally sublime, keyboards, found sounds and layers of dreamy ambient guitar are melted together into a super warm drifter. Then the artists collaborate for the title track , which was created by exchanging audio files across the globe... Hence the name of the tune. As you'd expect the pairing works really well and you'll be in ambient bliss-ville before you know it. Then Seaworthy closes with 'Branch and Stone' which really takes the mind to another place with its melancholic drones and minimal electronics and guitar loops. Powerfull stuff.'' Norman Records

''Aah, Low Point. Another superb label putting out some seriously high quality music. This collaboration between Fabio Orsi and Seaworthy is truly a beautiful piece of work and hits me in exactly the right spot. That spot is all about deep, flowing organic / electronic music made up of long (fifteen minute and above) works that are hypnotic, enchanting and just generally exactly what the doctor ordered for a sunny afternoon (or even a rainy one). There’s a combination here of the sort of textures that will make your spirit soar along with very occasional and incredibly effective field recordings that give it all an incredibly natural feel. I’m almost tempted to say that this is my favourite work so far from Seaworthy as it’s just absolutely the right balance of melancholy and beauty. That said I always feel (and sometimes say) that it seems weird picking favourites when I’m faced with such awesome music most of the time. Suffice to say that this really is a truly gorgeous album that finds two artists working superbly off each other to create another album you’ll be enjoying years from now. References? Well, I’d say that if you enjoy Seaworthy’s work on 12k, anything by Lawrence English or Fabio’s marvellous work on, particularly, A Silent Place, this is going to be 100% for you. Limited edition, as always and something that comes with a hearty recommendation. Absolutely wonderful.'' Smallfish

Fabio Orsi and Seaworthy ‘near and faraway’ (low point). I’m pretty certain that we’ve come across Italian sound-scape sculpturer on our listening travels in the near past in fact I‘m certain that our paths have crossed at least once in recent memory whereupon he featured on that recent Library Tapes set via Secret Furry Hole (see missive 200k), this release - not strictly out for a few weeks yet - finds him swapping notes with Australia’s Seaworthy for something approaching quietly epic. Queued up on our iTunes player this three track album comes up under the generic heading ’easy listening’ well bugger me - understatement or what, becalmed orbiting opals of tender transcendentalism is the best way to describe these tearfully mournful gemstones with each artist contributing one solitary melodic mosaic in their own right and fusing together for the third. Orsi has been navigating the distant twilight regions of the ambient cosmos for some three years now, in that time releasing some dozen plus albums for celebrated imprints such as A Silent Place, Foxglove, Ruralfaune and Digitalis. For his side of the collective equation he serves up the glacial ’evening by evening’ a mesmerising sub 16 minute odyssey of softly evolving sonic textures achingly applied with a finitely detailed precision whose remit it would seem is to bathe your listening experience in all manner of majestically toned blissfulness. Both slender and spectral, this beguiled shy eyed beauty is crafted tenderly by the merest of skins seductively weaved and wooed by the feint use of manipulated guitar layers, keyboard halos and the distant sound of children’s chatter, the shimmer like murmuring orchestral drone cascades arc and opine decorating the ether voids in the frostily purred procession of ebbing and flowing lonesome intones that appear like briefly recalled apparitions of faded memories, its almost spiritual, humbling and yet desirably yearning stuff which in many respects comes across not a million miles from a more chilled Manual if truth be told. Seaworthy for their part serve up ’branch and stone’, essentially a one man operation - that man being Cameron Webb aided and abetted on occasion by Sam Shinazzi and Greg Bird. More mood based that symphonic, where Orsi veered to the more ethereal Webb and Co opt for a more contemplative route appearing more concerned with micro textures, the hollowed resonance of the bowed instrumentations and the stretched sound tonalities all serve to instil something finite and precise, very sparse and minimalist in detail and delivery, this ice tipped cavernous gem swirls and hums forlornly lost and lonesome in its own hermetically sealed introspection. For the best part solemnly melancholic the glassy reverbs etched with a dulled feint restless ache only really come into near distant focus to wake from their chilled slumber nine minutes in wherein the delicately vivid application of gentle riff meanders wallow and weave softly filling the vacant sound spaces - reference wise much recalling early Kranky era Windy and Carl and Stars of the Lid. Nestled between to these aural satellites you’ll find them taking flight on their collaborative ambient opus ’near and faraway’- a beautifully conceived celestial visitation of nature bound raptures and heaven sent orbiting oscillations, all at once spacious and lush not to mention hypnotically demurring, this slice of lunar loveliness is metered out by tides of sumptuous star crested swathes of ethereal euphoria - it really is something else and more than alone worthy of the entrance paying fee. http://www.losingtoday.com../
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Sunday, July 19, 2009 
Fabio Orsi, Gianluca Becuzzi and ( E T R E ) (a.k.a. Salvatore Borrelli) are three young Italian musicians with similar backgrounds in the field of experimental soundscapes.  They blend electronics, felid recordings and acoustic instruments into a fractured tapestry of drones, folk music and sound collages.  Like a day dream, the sounds flutter seamlessly from one idea to the next but in a very logical and natural way.

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Sunday, July 19, 2009 
Fabio Orsi & Seaworthy - Near And Faraway

A meeting of minds spanning thousands of miles, 'Near And Faraway' marks the joint release by Italian ambient musician Fabio Orsi and Seaworthy, a three piece collective from Sydney, Australia. With the 51 minute running time divided equally into three parts, each artist contributes a solo track which in turn bookend a collaborative composition that forms the album’s centrepiece. Originally from Naples, Italy, but now a resident of Berlin, Fabio Orsi’s solo contribution to the album, ‘Evening By Evening’ skilfully demonstrates why he is regarded as one of his home country’s premier underground musicians. Utilising layers of guitars, keyboards and found sounds, Orsi creates an atmospheric audio postcard with a tangible sense of time and place. Seaworthy, primarily the recording project of core member Cameron Webb, with additional instrumentation from Sam Shinazzi and Greg Bird, present ‘Branch And Stone’ a minimalist soundscape of looped guitar, electronics and field recordings. Throughout the track pervades a highly refined sense of texture, creating something at once intimate yet panoramic.
The individual elements of both artists are brought together for the title track, ‘Near And Faraway’. Through the long distance exchange of ideas and sound files, their shared experimental, yet melodic approach to composition are incorporated to form one unified whole. An album that is a perfect show of individuality, which is also able to represent itself as a greater cohesive entity.

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Friday, June 05, 2009 
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Fabio Orsi / Valerio Cosi "Thoughts Melt in the Air"
Preservation


Italian dream team Fabio Orsi and Valerio Cosi reconvene here for their second duo album, combining their significant talents on four extended excursions into drone/kraut/free form followings that reach toward the horizon with a similar tendency as many droners. The difference here lies in the compositional aspect of the structures laid out here, as the duo exhibit an understanding that no matter how far one look, the horizon is always further down the road.

The disc opens with the first part of the two-part “The Frozen Seasons of Lysergia,” whose glistening drone opening is soon met with Cosi’s loping drums and vocal utterances. The production keeps everything clear and contained, maintaining a politeness in the material that is far removed from the more addled take of many similarly minded musicians. Same goes for “Thoughts,” whose dense and ceaselessly shifting opening drone gains momentum with soft cymbal taps before disrupting itself entirely and slipping into the rapids themselves, wherever they may lead.

“Melt in the Air” has a similar slant, with hints of a chorus bent out of order blissfully bellowing beneath a breathy melody line whose intangible processes sway just out of focus. The whole thing moves on for quite some time before building itself into quite the toe-tapper for a minute, like some acid-drenched polka jig before receding back into its translucent origins.

The closer is the second part of “The Frozen Seasons of Lysergia,” and its radio sample beginnings soon drift apart into hums of glass house floor layers. Though everything’s right in front of you, it’s never easy to locate or grasp, ceaselessly evolving into piano tinklings, sax anti-melodies and a trance-like vibe more in line with Gas than Eno. Beautiful stuff, though almost too much to ingest in one bite. 8/10 -- Henry Smith (4 June, 2009)




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Italian experimentalists Fabio Orsi and Valerio Cosi are a prolific pair, both commanding extensive, very highly regarded solo discographies that between them take in elements of blissful micro-drone, free-jazz and avant-garde contemporary composition. This new collaboration between the two musicians arrives on the evergreen Australian imprint Preservation, and opens with a healthy blast of palate-cleansing, dreamstate sustain, initially from Cosi's sax (stretched out endlessly thanks to some impressive breath control) and soon after by a flood of rich harmonium-like tones. As this first piece progresses vocals arrive, spluttering out distorted exclamations while drums clatter mutedly in the background. Thanks to clever production and balanced performances it never goes all-out weird though, and the presiding drone elements uphold a sense of orderly restraint. On the next piece we're met with a barrage of glimmering electronic tones, eventually embracing an almost krautrock-like 4/4 beat before devolving into wild improv drumming. The second half of the four-track (but fifty minute) disc provides the most subtle, and probably most successful piece here. This third composition takes on filtered ambience through its early stages, blending together luscious pastoral tones before warm basstones arrive towards the end, paving the way for coarsely bowed strings. This all comes together as a winning formula providing plenty of depth and texture, nicely balancing easy going ambience with more exploratory improvisational impulses. Finally, the fourth piece lays down a bed of shimmering, somehow fast-moving high frequency tones while carefully EQed instrumentation jostles just low enough in the mix so as not to penetrate the surface. This last half hour or so of the album really sticks in the mind, distinguishing Thoughts Melt In The Air as a thoughtful and subtle body of work.


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In the tradition of compatriots My Cat is an Alien, the Italian musicians Fabio Orsi and Valerio Cosi have self-released (CD-Rs, limited cassettes, split LPs, etc.) their way into respects of the worldwide experimental music scene. Both talented young men draw heavily on manipulated sounds to concoct their personal take on drone-based music; Orsi’s style originates with guitar while Cosi’s with saxophone. And most impressively, they are making an idiosyncratic mark in a faceless and rather thankless genre. Anyone can make noise, but few have the talent for making it their own. Their recent collaboration, Thoughts Melt in the Air, is further proof. With four drone-based pieces, Orsi and Cosi craft a mesmerizing album that balances the artist’s most difficult beam: that with challenge weighing on one side, and the ability to entice on the other.
The opening “The Frozen Seasons of Lysergia (Part One)” begins like a mechanical sitar raga, underpinned by muffled vociferations and a clipped snare rhythm. “Thoughts” hums along with a steadily thumping drumbeat, and during the song’s peak, a Sci Fi-ish synth melody – quick in its bright repetition and more perceptible as the track rumbles on – fights a cacophonous layer of pink noise for attention. As the piece concludes, it all melts into a pitch-wavering wash of analog synthesizer by-product. It’s almost angelic in its aura.
This makes for a strong introduction, but the real meat isn’t until the latter half of the album. “Melt in the Air” glimmers and glistens and radiates (I could go on with a dozen other descriptive verbs for visual phenomena), but it’s not until the sparkly drone crumbles into tidal currents of tinny guitar feedback that it becomes really affecting. Suddenly, the comparison to the 4AD roster that accompanies the CD’s packaging (This Mortal Coil, Cocteau Twins) finally makes sense. The drone is suddenly manifested as dream-pop ambience. A subtle pulsating rhythm emerges from the background only to ebb behind the increasing layers of feedback and coarse noise, and finally the song’s arc subsides into the original seraphic-sounding theme.
“The Frozen Seasons of Lysergia (Part Two)” concludes with a wistful haze of subtly melodic white noise. It affects without crescendonic melodrama. It’s tumultuous without vehemence. It’s like enjoying the natural beauty of a snowstorm that has not quite reached the severity of a blizzard (from cozily indoors, of course).
Released on Australia’s consistently impressive Preservation Records, Thoughts Melt in the Air distinguishes itself by balancing each of the artists’ own talents as well as a shared aesthetic. It’s a level seldom achieved in the over-saturated market of drone/ambient-based releases, and a signal that these two young Italian musicians are already close to securing spots among the canon of their craft.


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Thoughts Melt in the Air consists of four long tracks, all near or well over the ten-minute mark, so you know that when you put it on it's time for some weird "only your headphones know" meditation. "The Frozen Seasons of Lysergia (Part 1)" begins like a Phil Niblock track, taking one rich note from Valeri Cosi's saxophone and letting the rich overtones and interplay of space warm us up for a minute. Cosi has a jazz background, but he likes to use the sax as a taproot to feed his experimental electronic tree, and this is the last time a saxophone is ever discernible. Fabio Orsi joins the fray with a series of droning, high-end organ chords. All things Niblockian are left behind once skitter-scatter drumming starts to fleck and sprinkle the scene. As ominous, red clouds roll in, primal voices start crowing like thirsty birds on power lines above an apocalyptic scene on the streets below, as they watch the world burst into an insane asylum.The album gets better. In fact, the first piece is likely the weakest link (as well as the shortest). "Thoughts" is a brilliant exercise in transcendentalist drone music, as it can not only relax, but also get your consciousness quite sweaty. Summoning a rich interplay of wheeze and chords that try to give your brain a hickey, Orsi and Cosi truly sound like one unit. This collaboration has that magic something that goes beyond basic science, sounding entirely natural. "Thoughts" is a big evolver of a piece, mixing electro-dynamics with steady and driving subterranean drum propulsion. This drumming sounds so good underneath all the other work up top, I could feel the universe expanding with each high-hat and kick. Combined with Orsi's premium acid-eating atmosphoeres, this is great stuff."Melt In The Air" is absolutely lovely, as a lazy, almost Tim Hecker-esque melody can be heard through a spicy fog of misty skree. Seven minutes of this is plenty of time to imagine yourself inside a crystal castle, smoking a hooka and having orange wedges delicately float into your mouth, but that's when a very optimistic bass line and piano player soar by and lift you off in a hot air balloon, allowing you to peer down at a vast candied landscape. An affected (but friendly) violin begins insisting that it's time to return to ground after fourteen minutes of bliss. It's amazing how much noise and activity there can be in a piece of music and have it remain relaxing. The beautiful, static-laced dreamscape "The Frozen Seasons of Lysergia (Part 2)" solidifies this as a solid release from front to back.What is so striking about Thoughts Melt in the Air is its vibrant optimism. These songs are nailed perfectly, and do what good drone and free noise should do: create a new world for the listener. The pieces sound alive, like they have conscious intentions. The pacing of this album is excellent, solidifying this duo as icons of top-flight experimentalist noise-scapery. Fabio Orsi and Valerio Cosi have collaborated a lot in recent years, and I will be paying close attention to part three of their "Apulian Trilogy". Bravo.




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The 11th Uncut Playlist Of 2009


1 Elbow & The BBC Concert Orchestra – The Seldom Seen Kid Live At Abbey Road (Fiction)

2 Peaches – I Feel Cream (XL)

3 Graham Coxon – The Spinning Top (Transgressive)

4 Akron/Family - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free (Dead Oceans)

5 Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Broken Arrow (Reprise)

6 Conor Oberst – Outer South (Wichita)

7 Jarvis Cocker – Further Complications (Rough Trade)

8 Magik Markers – Balf Quarry (Drag City)

9 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz (Polydor)

10 Black Sheep – Kiss My Sweet Apocalypse (Invada)

11 Pocahaunted – Passage (Troubleman)

12 Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca (Domino)

13 Joker’s Daughter – The Last Laugh (Double Six)

14 Crystal Antlers – Tentacles (Touch & Go)

15 Joyce With Nana Vasconcelos And Mauricio Maestro – Visions Of Dawn (Far Out)

16 Stonephace – Stonephace (Tru Thoughts)

17 White Denim – Five-Track Sampler (Full Time Hobby)

18 Manic Street Preachers – Journal For Plague Lovers (Columbia)

19 Wooden Shjips – Dos (Holy Mountain)

20 Fabio Orsi/Valerio Cosi – Thoughts Melt In The Air (Preservation)

21 DOOM – BORN LIKE THIS (Lex)





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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 


Second album from Orsi/Cosi duo after their debut "We Could For Hours" CD, out on A Silent Place...







The Preservation label presents Thoughts Melt In The Air, the second
album from the pairing of Italian composers Fabio Orsi and Valerio
Cosi. Both Orsi and Cosi have become recognised widely internationally
for their prolific solo output and kindred spirits in creating
momentous soundscapes that ring with lyrical feeling. Still in his
early 20s, Valerio Cosi has released a seemingly endless stream of work
that swirls around giddily in a sweep of heady free-jazz (his main
instrument is tenor saxophone), homespun psychedelia and Krautrock
rhythm. Similarly unfaltering in his release schedule, Fabio Orsi’s
work draws from a more electronic palette with a quieter, pastoral
scope featuring gentle washes of piano, guitar and percussion. Over
these four extended pieces, the pair reveals an intimate detailing of
sound while going widescreen in pursuit of the epic. Wistful, yearning
and melancholic, Thoughts Melt In the Air traces the celestial, emotive
sound of enigmatic 4AD acts This Mortal Coil and Cocteau Twins,
perfectly pitched between dream-pop vibes and deep ambience. Moreover,
it harks back to the absorbing, meditative qualities of Popol Vuh and
classic-period Eno, often coupled with the primal and hypnotic tension
of rock ‘n roll in its pulse. Whatever the elements, Thoughts Melt In
The Air altogether represents a great meeting of minds.



 
"Thoughts Melt In The Air" CD - PRE020
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Fabio Orsi/The North Sea "Far & Wide"

cassette (limited edition, c30)

Digitalis Limited ( USA)


 

12 euros post paid

(few copies available)


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v/a- Last Winter We Didn’t Sing

Cd, heavy chipboard eco packs by Sire Press.

Hand-numbered edition of 300

thorsrubberhammer (USA)

 

12 euros post paid

(few copies available)


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v/a-Dreamsheep (Volume One)

Cdr

Dreamsheep records (ITA)

 

12 euros post paid

(few copies available)

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v/a Vinyl Beards

Lp, limited edition of 206

BSBTA Vinyl (Denmark)

 

16 euros post paid

(only 2 copies available)

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Menhir Compilation double 7" lathe

Root Don Lonie For Cash (NZ)

 



in v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v ltd edition from Root don lonie for cash (at hotmail dot com)

 

Fabio Orsi "Audio For Lovers"

2Cd (Last Visible Dog, USA)

 

Fabio Orsi "Audio for Lovers" 18 euros post paid



 


Fabio Orsi "The Wild Light Of The Moon"

cdr (2008) SRA (Usa)


Fabio Orsi "The Wild Light Of The Moon" 15euros post paid



 


Fabio Orsi&Gianluca Becuzzi "Sound
Postcards"


Cd (2008) Cold Current (Ita)   




Sound Postcards is a sound representation of determinated time-space, of
its moods and atmospheres, it's a sort of soundpostcard in which the artists
portray a familiar and hypothetical landscape. The listener is induced to
''identify'' the represented subjects through interpretative processes which
directly compare sound suggestions with subjective/collective imagination. A
semanthic game of mirrors reflecting forms in perpetual transition between
auditive dimension and symbolic/mnemonic one.

 Fabio Orsi/Gianluca Becuzzi Sound Postcards 15 euro

 

 













Fabio Orsi/Valerio Cosi "We
Could for Hours"

 Cd (2008) A Silent
Place(Ita)  


 


We Could For Hours is instability. It represents the will to open the
gates of unknown. It is the dark, whispered sounds and hidden truths. Chaos.
And now here it starts, everything takes form, sensations rise, objects
acquire colours, distorted vision but still a vision of reality. Everything
dances and follows the rhythm of music, an unknown tribal dance.Silence.
Sounds follow themselves but always hidden in a veil of mistery, words are
mute, everything is listening attentively to the enchanting melody of
nature. Mind, free from human limits, goes straight towards a long journey
and meets the supernatural and then sinks into the knowledge oblivion.
Everything is nothing. Nothing is the time.

 Fabio Orsi/Valerio Cosi We Could For Hours 15 euro

 

 














Fabio Orsi/Mamuthones "The First
Born"

Cd(2008) A Silent Place (Ita)  

 

THE FIRST BORN contains four long tracks of dark, brooding modern
psychedelia. From the splashing cymbals and martial beat of the title track
to the hypnotic surge of "The infinity within" or the ritualistic feast of
"The battle", the whole album feels like an ancient sea ebbing and flowing
on some distant alien shore, making for a curiously disjointed listening
experience, at the same time peaceful and menacing. The ever-shifting sonic
textures evoke both the starchildren krautrockers of old and more recent
outer-world explorers but always keep a strong personal identity, firmly
rooted in the current weird Italian take on space rock.
                                                 Fabio Orsi/Mamuthones The First Born 15 euro




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Tuesday, December 16, 2008 
ltd20 the north sea & fabio orsi demix "far & wide" c33

this unearthed excursion was found behind a bucket of dust in the hallowed cellar of the north sea past. tanpuras explode under beds of drones and field recordings. junkyard rhythms resonate inside the blacked-out hole in a dead oak tree. couples travel hand-in-hand through the streets of berlin, looking for the last taxi to take them straight to moscow square. fabio orsi and your fearless leader take each others tracks apart, piece by piece, and reassmble them into something shiny & new. "far & wide" is certainly a ghost from the past, waving goodbye and never to be seen again. killer cover art by dream magazine's george parsons. limited to 79 copies.

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Wednesday, December 03, 2008 
2 NEW COMP RELEASES OUT NOW:

Last Winter We Didn’t Sing features winter holiday-inspired music from the likes of Scott Tuma, The Instruments [Elephant 6 cellist, Gnarls Barkley and Lil Wayne (?!) touring bassist Heather McIntosh], pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn with a hauntingly beautiful 16-minute solo improvisation, Greg Davis inspired by a Simon & Garfunkel “Silent Night” arrangement, Beggin’ Your Pardon Miss Joan, Fabio Orsi playing an ambient noir-jazz piece like something out of Twin Peaks, Nicholas Szczepanik and Chartreuse
slowing down a traditional French waltzing carol. It’s a somber,
reflective and sometimes haunting take on the season with a beautiful
illustration by Ariel Kitch screen-printed on eco-packs by Sire Press. Hand-numbered edition of 300.

http://thorsrubberhammer.com/




v.aa.
Dreamsheep (Volume One) CDR - DS001
First volume in a forthcoming serie of compilations. This one includes guys like Area C, Datashock, Gianluca Becuzzi & Fabio Orsi, Hexlove, Richard Skelton, Robedoor, The North Sea, The Nether Dawn, Brothers Of The Occult Sisterhood.
It dives into drones and free-folk territories, offering some of the
greatest tracks from the single artists. This compilation is a subtle
journey into your mind, made of sound-and-vision ecstasy and monolithic
tones. CDR comes in a limited edition of 200 copies.

http://www.myspace.com/dreamsheeprecordings



enjoy!
with love
Fabio



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Monday, September 29, 2008 




Fabio Orsi - The Wild Light of the Moon  Cdr (Sra, Usa)

Abeautiful 35 minute, fully satisfying, drone that drifts to wonderfullycolorful places you've never been before. Limited to 200 copies.








Fabio Orsi - Audio For Lovers  2Cd (Last Visible Dog,Usa)

Fabio Orsi (collaborator on last year's 'Wildflower's under the sofa') returns with a double disc effort that is at once a highly satisfying 2 hour entry in the ambient genre.  Although LVD's catalog often leans toward noiser, less melodic works, Audio for lovers shows both the same modernistic and minimal sensibilities that we've heard from Fabio in the past, while also drawing on the earlier, atmospheric work by Eno, which is to say that the album does precisely what most of us would like out of an ambient work.  The tracks are highly melodic and memorable, the nature of the music is experimental enough (at least in theory) that I think a lot of fans of the label will enjoy it, and most importantly, the environments created here will please just about everyone--this might even be the LVD release to please your non-LVD listening acquaintances.  Purchase the soundtrack to your new life today! 




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Friday, September 19, 2008 
Fabio Orsi & Valerio Cosi We Could for Hours (A Silent Place) Four exquisite droning beauties are spilled out in this fruitful collaboration. Searing glinting sax and keyboard duels in the sun grinding away the wheels of the galaxy. Warm oceanic bliss a long tone and it's attendant echo accompanied by three shorter sea-sawing swaying tidal ebbings. A shorter echo and response of shivering whispery secret textures over warm modal jazz. Massed spirits murmur in another dimension while amplified angels hover in geometric patterns until dawn.



Fabio Orsi/Mamuthones The First Born (A Silent Place) Five tracks for this collaboration between Italian artists Fabio Orsi and Alessio Gastaldello of Jennifer Gentle. The first is bells, birds, gently pulsing distant droning, whispers and ominous spacey atmospherics. The second is cymbals shimmering, tribal drumming, droning and psychic haze. The third like a song heard from a great distance, thirteen and a half minutes of marching mesmerize..oplasm. The fourth is like Rapoon in a holy slumbering swoon. The fifth three minutes of beautiful bird songs.



Gianluca Becuzzi/Fabio Orsi Soundpostcards (Cold Current Production) Broken music boxes spin in timeless time old lullabies repeating through eternity. Sparks in the dark, hissing spray of sprinklers droning infinite sighing horizon to horizon wide machinery and grace. A stainless steel word of polished sleek utility and majesty old ehoes of the heavenly choir coming from down the long hallways shrouded in galactic light. Crunching through the undergrowth, an Asian chime and clocks tick as time begins again upon waking. The waters run and signal their depth foreshadowing the deeper roar of the waterfalls as warm neon shapes revolve and reveal themselves. Eleven tracks, all fine ways to spend an hour here.


George Parsons
Dream Magazine (issue 9)
http://www.dreamgeo.com/
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