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shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-vanished-people
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Music for vanished people was conceived as a series of improvisations that introduced different artists into our alchemical, asynchronous remote collaboration process, where time and space play almost no role. Each guest answered the call delving into the subject with his preferred instrument.
The result is an album that explores both the dynamics of disappearing and the different emotions that vanishing evokes.
From the multitude of individuals and families who lost their lives crossing the Mediterranean Sea to a whole population that apparently imploded without leaving a trace, from persons who were forgotten to those who simply disappeared, we travel between private and universal feelings of loss.
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released January 29, 2020
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This is an album of slow evanescence and alluring beauty built on soothing soundscapes interrupted by tiny incremental changes and partly melodious vibes. [...] Those grieving and plaintive nostalgic pieces will lead the listener into a vast space of sentimental reveries and morosely sorrowing wandering estates.
Philippe Blache on Igloomag
igloomag.com/reviews/xue-music-for-vanished-people-shimmering-moods
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La pratica sonora di Nicola Fornasari si consacra come non mai a quell'evanescenza già da ultimo esplorata nel recente "Embodying Formlessness" e adesso elevata a metafora di una fuggevolezza al tempo stesso fisica e della memoria.
Raffaello Russo on Music won't save you
musicwontsaveyou.com/2020/03/01/xue-music-for-vanished-people/
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Un'evocativa immersione in un universo di evanescenti sensazioni che galleggiano in un indefinito territorio privo di connotazione spazio-temporale.
Peppe Trotta on So What
sowhatmusica.wordpress.com/2020/02/11/xue-music-for-vanished-people/
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01 – 17.819 (mediterranean sea 2014-2018) – feat. zenjungle
andrea poli – guitar, fx pedals, processing
nicola fornasari – amplified objects, piano loop, korg monotron, looper & fx pedals
zenjungle – tenor sax, drones and noises
02 – tomek mackiewicz – feat. moody alien
andrea poli – guitar, fx pedals, processing
nicola fornasari – arturia minibrute, processed piano loop, fx pedals
moody alien – processed vibraphone
03 – ettore majorana – feat. belaqua shua
andrea poli – guitar, fx pedals, processing
nicola fornasari – arturia minibrute, looper & fx pedals, processing
belaqua shua – cello, balalaika, fx pedals
04 – mogollon – feat. wilhelm matthies
andrea poli – madrona labs aalto, processing
nicola fornasari – amplified objects, toy psaltery, korg monotron, samplr on ipad, looper & fx pedals
wilhelm matthies – mosesa 5, processing
05 – amelia earhart – feat. the volume settings folder
andrea poli – bloom on ipad, processing
nicola fornasari – arturia minibrute, processed piano loops, sine waves generator, looper & fx pedals
tvsf – guitar, fx pedals
06 – stolen generation – feat. shanyio
andrea poli – guitar, fx pedals, processing
nicola fornasari – guitar, line6 pod, looper & fx pedals, processing
shanyo – picked soprano psaltery, bowed kantele and bowed dulcimer
recorded between 2016 and 2018
mixed and arranged by nicola fornasari
mastered by andrea poli
layout by nicola fornasari
photography by andrea poli
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Shimmering Moods Records 2020