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ORSI, FABIO - Winterreise

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: SlowFlow Records WW1002 Release Year: 2010 Note: second release on the new ambient / drone label from Japan; new work by the Italian atmospheric wonderchild ! Price (incl. 19% VAT): €12.50 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info "With an entrance that displays the cold reaches of a surrounding, creeping fog, Fabio Orsi's 'Winterreise' is an immediate, enchanting production, reaching with the building swells of instrumental openness, and climactic ascendance. Fabio Orsi is an Italian electronic musician, reknowned for his work in the combination of the languages of popular tradition, and the avant-garde, while using field recordings, found sounds, guitar, piano, and synthesizer. After releasing on such labels as Digitalis Industries, A Silent Place, Last Visible Dog, Preservation, Low Point, Small Voices, and Ruralfaune, Orsi contributes his new work here to the Japanese label Slow Flow, for their second CD release. Throughout the nearly 50-minute release, 'Winterreise' proceeds through hollows of inward movement, amounting in sonorous reaches to the realism of the field recordings of the natural world within, soundtracked by a delicate, free richness. With no less than mythical symbolism leaning in through the natural above, there is little left without a nonplussed pacification, while still proceeding to the far limits of overcoming interference. Orsi's 'Winterreise' breathes just as easily as it gives way, in ultra exception of impressionism into the listeners' ears, not only, but into their surroundings, and resting there within them, with unembellished grandeur." text by Will Long [Celer] [label info] http://slowflowrec.web.fc2.com/index.html "The second release is by Fabio Orsi, from Italy, of whom we encountered music before on labels as Small Voices and Digitales Industries (as well as some more, which I believe weren't all reviewed in Vital Weekly), and here Orsi has 'Winterreise' (without a connection to Schubert I think). Playing guitar, effects and old keyboards on this six part work that lasts almost fifty minutes. Not mentioned on the cover is the use of field recordings, which I think there are several of them (people talking in a restaurant in the third piece for instance). The press text (by Will Banquet of Celer) mentions 'mythical symbolism' and 'impression' and surely there is something to say to link it to the older art movements, but perhaps the safest thing to say is that it sounds like ambient music. Great ambient that is actually. Orsi does a really fine job. The guitar never sounds like a guitar, but flows freely among the hot bed of sound effects, and so do the old keyboards. Music that transports the listener to a dream world of its/his own. The six pieces do not necessarily go into eachother, but each is a specific entity of its own; Part V for instance is a much darker than the rest. Orsi's ambient music is something that moves in traditional circles of what is called ambient music but adds darker undercurrents to add something to the material that is also his own. Not the biggest surprise, on both accounts but both are quite nice." [FdW / Vital Weekly]