i've had the music from memory comp on preorder for an eternity now, is it finally out?
― the late great, Thursday, 29 January 2015 02:47 (nine years ago) link
The 2CD is supposedly out this week in the US.
― Andy K, Thursday, 29 January 2015 02:53 (nine years ago) link
is there anything else he's done that has vocals like Call Me? the rest of Wind is great too but I was disappointed there wasn't anything else like it
― ufo, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 11:35 (nine years ago) link
'snake theory' and 'almanac' both have vocals
― max, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 12:29 (nine years ago) link
Is "Call Me" the EXACT midpoint between Blue Nile and Bark Psychosis or
was pleased to find he put blue nile on this dj mix, posted previously in the balearic thread.
https://soundcloud.com/kocmoc-manifesto/gigi-masin
― Junior Dictionary (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 12:33 (nine years ago) link
That Gigi mix is crazy diverse.
― doug watson, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 16:28 (nine years ago) link
so i've contacted gigi on facebook to confirm there's no way i can buy it: does anyone have a copy of the gigi/charles hayward album that's not all hissy and pissy like the only rip i can find? would rather not shell out for a rare LP i have no way of playing and shipping to seoul...
if so pleeeez email me jakob dot dorof at gee mail i will find some way to reward you :'(
― soyrev, Saturday, 9 May 2015 13:17 (nine years ago) link
also "clouds" is god-tier new age synth music, like top five of the genre status...just incredible
― soyrev, Saturday, 9 May 2015 13:18 (nine years ago) link
Check your email, Jakob.
― doug watson, Sunday, 10 May 2015 00:55 (nine years ago) link
Wind is soooooo great
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 10:29 (eight years ago) link
yeah it is another dazzler after Talk To The Sea, really need to hear more of his stuff.
― The New Faeces (xelab), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 12:33 (eight years ago) link
i've been hopelessly addicted to talk to the sea... another mix of his here: http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-releases/vf-vinyl-mix-19-gigi-masin/
― home organ, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 13:05 (eight years ago) link
haven't got the new one yet - must remedy that.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 13:07 (eight years ago) link
I hadn't realized that Music From Memory just released the digital download of the remastered Wind:
http://music-from-memory.bandcamp.com/album/wind-3
― doug watson, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 13:55 (eight years ago) link
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, December 22, 2015 5:29 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
What the... I've just been binge listening to Wind since yesterday and I'm halfway through it again now!
― Evan, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 14:46 (eight years ago) link
cosign the love
― sleeve, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 16:26 (eight years ago) link
― soyrev
Just listened to this song for the first time and just had one of those moments where I had heard this song before... and indeed, I had. The synth line has been sampled by both Nujabes and To Rococo Rot, the latter shamelessly structuring a whole song around that one loop. Funny how these days you can hear a song for the first time, but still get that deja vu sense due to its use elsewhere. My favorite recent example is hearing Bernard Fevre's song Earth Message for the first time and realizing The Chemical Brothers song Got Glint not only samples it, but essentially covers it in the chorus.
― octobeard, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 16:44 (eight years ago) link
new Gaussian Curve album is out, excellent
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 20 April 2017 22:19 (seven years ago) link
How does it compare to Clouds?
― Wimmels, Friday, 21 April 2017 11:40 (seven years ago) link
i love it. definitely comparable, maybe even better.
― dyl, Sunday, 23 April 2017 21:54 (seven years ago) link
high praise! thanks. I was probably gonna buy it anyway but good to know
― Wimmels, Sunday, 23 April 2017 22:52 (seven years ago) link
yeah, I feel like these guys just get it
― boxedjoy, Monday, 24 April 2017 08:45 (seven years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/duyaka/kashemes-livingroom-live-session-with-gigi-masin-music-from-memory
Kasheme's Livingroom Session with Gigi Masin
― saer, Friday, 7 July 2017 15:30 (six years ago) link
new self-released album on Bandcamp:
Dear friends..
Recently I have been thinking about what 'a change' means. Whether it's a turning corner of keeping on walking straight down the road, or a ship adapting its course to the winds and waves, or a kite dancing in the air one step away from the clouds. I'm thinking about new passages, further destinations, new places to reach.. but I still have a bag full of memories: unique people I've met, smiles, hugs, projects.. Maybe a change is like crossing a bridge, following a kite that finds its meaning in the wind, its motive for searching the horizon and stealing another dream. This collection contains some songs that I've made in the past few years, written to talk about dreams and love while waiting for new colors and new music. It's like looking back at a garden of roses and flowers, hoping the next lawn is just as beautiful and bright.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 16 February 2018 07:07 (six years ago) link
http://masin.bandcamp.com/album/kite
― calstars, Friday, 16 February 2018 07:51 (six years ago) link
Love everything Gigi has done, but refuse to pay ten euros for a download
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 16 February 2018 11:42 (six years ago) link
happy to give gigi money but a bit reluctant to buy the download if there's a chance that it might get a physical release. what i've heard sounds good though!
― Maconie Youth (NickB), Friday, 16 February 2018 11:54 (six years ago) link
Yeah, would gladly pay three times that for an LP of this material
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 16 February 2018 12:54 (six years ago) link
heads up london folk:
http://thejazzcafelondon.com/event/gigi-masin
― Maconie Youth (NickB), Friday, 16 February 2018 19:41 (six years ago) link
yesss
https://masin.bandcamp.com/album/calypso
― let's talk about gecs baby (sleeve), Friday, 31 January 2020 23:10 (four years ago) link
About to see him! Like now
― Evan, Sunday, 16 February 2020 00:19 (four years ago) link
I please tell him hello for me
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Sunday, 16 February 2020 00:37 (four years ago) link
I will try! I assume you don’t actually know him
― Evan, Sunday, 16 February 2020 00:38 (four years ago) link
how was he?
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 16 February 2020 09:49 (four years ago) link
SO good. Lots of relatively upbeat numbers. I’m sure much of it will be on the new album.
― Evan, Sunday, 16 February 2020 14:42 (four years ago) link
Really enjoying Calypso. It's so long though, I'm only just spending time with the second half.
― cooldix, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 12:32 (four years ago) link
ooh, didn't realise this had been released now
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 14:40 (four years ago) link
so good
― sleeve, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 14:50 (four years ago) link
some of this is really good but some of it sounds distractingly like the most dated parts of 90s trip-hop, the melodies and pad sounds are great and this is probably better than like 80% of anything I'll hear all year though
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 08:08 (four years ago) link
Haha, definitely had the same thought re. dated '90s touchstones. There's a LOT of good stuff though.
― cooldix, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 10:37 (four years ago) link
"Khalifa golf club" is the standout jam imo
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 12:15 (four years ago) link
He did a live thing the other day and I was surprised by how much it reminded of *something*... but I couldn't put my finger on what it was (Gottsching? Eno? Papa M? Fennesz?)
If you have time, listen to the first 7 minutes of this and please tell me what other artist/works it sounds like (RIYL?):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm9r0vIZYUw
ISO slow, heavy reverb ambient guitar over soft drum machine?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:33 (four years ago) link
the chords themselves (through the first 2 minutes, at least) sound quite a bit like "Sugar for the Pill" from the reunion Slowdive album
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link
ok, that was a terrible reference. the rest of it sounds nothing like that, sorry
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:41 (four years ago) link
haha awesome - that's a cover of 'small hours' by john martyn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYLVM560Fok
― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:45 (four years ago) link
+100000 points to NickB!
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:47 (four years ago) link
First seven minutes sounds particularly electric Windham Hill-y to me (Peter Maunu, Danny Heines come to mind). Also reminds me of that Jakob Bro guy on ECM. Not hearing any Eno or Ashra at all.
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 17 April 2020 15:48 (four years ago) link
<3, thx NickB... not familiar with that track at all!
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:51 (four years ago) link
If you don't know the two Gaussian Curve records that Gigi did with Jonny Nash and Young Marco, they definitely mine that soundworld, as does some of Jonny Nash's solo stuff (e.g. 'Exit Strategies' from 2015). Also try the album 'Surface' by Santilli that came out last year.
― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link
this Youtube is awesome, thanks
― zoomer death circus (sleeve), Friday, 17 April 2020 16:16 (four years ago) link
^ video is the track that gigi is on, 'admira'
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Thursday, 29 September 2022 19:53 (one year ago) link
The single is really beautiful
― calstars, Thursday, 29 September 2022 20:23 (one year ago) link
It's out!
― Evan, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 15:10 (one year ago) link
Interview: https://player.fm/series/lost-and-sound/gigi-masin
― Evan, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 19:22 (one year ago) link
this is liquefying me
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 19:30 (one year ago) link
"marilene (somewhere in texas)", i'm voting yes for reverb
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 19:31 (one year ago) link
He is such a sweet guy
― Evan, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
hello barumini, the best track in a future lindstrom set
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 19:41 (one year ago) link
does lindstrom even dj, maybe i meant prins thomas
Really similar so either one! Gigi can do no wrong
― Evan, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 21:40 (one year ago) link
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
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 22:49 (one year ago) link
https://languageofsound.bandcamp.com/album/vahin
weirdly not on his personal BC page
― sleeve, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 23:16 (one year ago) link
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/dolphinFirst available track is gorgeous & lush
― willem, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 16:01 (one year ago) link
this is a lovely & luxurious drift, curious to hear how gigi is integrated in the rest of this record
― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 16:10 (one year ago) link
yeah sounds great thx
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 16:14 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd-JE_t9_BQ
― But his face would not turn into hot Kirby (Evan), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 17:17 (one year ago) link
― But his face would not turn into hot Kirby (Evan), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 17:18 (one year ago) link
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.
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 24 July 2023 02:00 (nine months ago) link
I agree! New Greg Foat collab delivers too!
― But his face would not turn into hot Kirby (Evan), Monday, 24 July 2023 03:41 (nine months ago) link
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.
― But his face would not turn into hot Kirby (Evan), Monday, 24 July 2023 15:01 (nine months ago) link
DREAM COLLAB!!
http://13.silentes.it/private_sounds/sps2366.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJyG3AtYQrQ
― But his face would not turn into hot Kirby (Evan), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 16:13 (eight months ago) link
Heads up, people!
― But his face would not turn into hot Kirby (Evan), Thursday, 7 September 2023 14:56 (eight months ago) link
v intrigued
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 7 September 2023 15:57 (eight months ago) link
me too
― ꙮ (map), Thursday, 7 September 2023 16:11 (eight months ago) link
Yeah thanks Evan, ordered it yesterday <3
― willem, Thursday, 7 September 2023 20:10 (eight months ago) link
You're welcome! I also grabbed it right away
― But his face would not turn into hot Kirby (Evan), Thursday, 7 September 2023 20:40 (eight months ago) link
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.
― Slays two. Found gassed. Thinks of cat. (Chinaski), Saturday, 9 September 2023 09:56 (eight months ago) link
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
― groovypanda, Monday, 4 December 2023 21:12 (five months ago) link
wtf business is it of Foat's if some website listed scrimshire's album on their best of list? what an ass
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 4 December 2023 21:22 (five months ago) link
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 (five months ago) link
I read that entire thread and I'm still not exactly clear about what it is Foat is upset about
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 4 December 2023 22:25 (five months ago) link
Holy heck, what repellant behaviour
― blazin' squab (NickB), Monday, 4 December 2023 22:26 (five months ago) link
I lol'd at "wet wipe", though. There's got to be more to this saga.
― beard papa, Monday, 4 December 2023 23:06 (five months ago) link
― 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.
― Evan, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 17:24 (five months ago) link
ANYWHO the Masin / Modell collab record is so beautiful maybe let's focus back on that
― Evan, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 17:25 (five months ago) link
Actually it’s my favorite album of the year?
― Evan, Thursday, 21 December 2023 03:00 (four months ago) link
New Gaussian Curve!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z00JUECdYyk
― blazin' squab (NickB), Tuesday, 16 January 2024 20:54 (three months ago) link
Truth be told, I'm feeling a bit emotionally fragile right now and also still finding Jamie's death hard to process so that was a hard (but very beautiful) listen
― blazin' squab (NickB), Tuesday, 16 January 2024 20:56 (three months ago) link
gorgeous <3
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 16 January 2024 21:15 (three months ago) link
<3
― Evan, Tuesday, 16 January 2024 21:20 (three months ago) link
Ah there's more info on what this is on Gigi's insta:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C2KLKRzsAOV/?igsh=MWF1eGhhOHk4NTV6NQ==
― blazin' squab (NickB), Tuesday, 16 January 2024 22:01 (three months ago) link
Out today :)
― groovypanda, Friday, 23 February 2024 06:26 (two months ago) link
Fever Dream is great and actually has some vocals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QfMkHwHRc8
― groovypanda, Friday, 23 February 2024 06:27 (two months ago) link