Gigi Masin - Talk to the Sea [Additional Bonus Tracks] (2014)

For their much anticipated second release 'Music From Memory' takes you into the world of Italian musician Gigi Masin, who was part of only a small and very much underground music scene in his hometown of Venice, Gigi Masin self released two modestly pressed LP's 'Wind' (1986) and 'Wind Collector' (1991). Gigi Masin's uniquely intricate and at times deeply emotive compositions take the listener into a realm of contemplation, a spellbound mind state where time and space appear to dissolve. His sparse and hypnotic often loop-based compositions seem to draw parallels with Detroit Techno's earliest beginnings, all at once conjuring those same feelings of both melancholic longing and ecstatic joy.

The Music From Memory label was launched by Redlight Records founders Tako Reyenga, Abel Nagenast and Jamie Tiller earlier this year, sporting a proud mantra of "giving overlooked and unreleased music that we love a second chance". The focus of attention for Music Of Memory's second release falls on the works of celebrated ambient composer Gigi Masin. Born in Venice, Masin's work has been sampled by the likes of Bjork and To Rococco Rot and his albums attract feverish acclaim, with Wind, Masin's privately pressed debut LP a desired rarity for the only the most well-heeled of second hand collectors. It's from this album and a selection of Masin's other released works that Music From Memory draw from for this stunningly meditative double LP retrospective Talk To The Sea, which also includes a healthy amount of unreleased material.

Tracklist:

CD1:

01. Snake Theory
02. The Word Love
03. Still
04. Fata Morgana
05. Redanzen
06. Talk to the Sea
07. Music for Chameleons
08. Little Faith
09. First Time Ruth Saw the Sea
10. The Nylon Dollar
11. The Kasparian Circle
12. Nadir

CD2:

01. Stella Maris
02. Call Me
03. The City Lights
04. She Wears Shades
05. Almanac
06. Moor
07. Not the Kind That's Blues
08. Ship Beteel
09. Random Security
10. Zarata
11. Swallows' Tempest