TRACKS

1. Heavy Like Falling Leaf (vocals by Lau Nau)
2. Particles Pt1(vocals by Romina Kalsi/Animor)
3. Uninvited Ghost (spoken words by John Guilor)
4. Duduk Confessions
5. Tapes and Cows Pt1
6. Tapes and Cows Pt2 (vocals by Lau Nau)
7. Particles Pt2 (vocals by Romina Kalsi/Animor)
8. Crystal Dog Barks (vocals by Yan Jun)
9. Facing The Waves (vocals by Dominic Appleton)
10. Another Year Is Over, Let´s Wait For Springtime (vocals by Gaia Margutti)

 

DESCRIPTION

This album is the second collaboration between Enrico Coniglio and Matteo Uggeri, now joined under the band name of Open to the Sea.

In the attempt of moving more and more into melodic forms of musical experimentation, this time Coniglio (that cares of most of the instrumentation, playing guitars, piano, synths and the Armenian flute duduk) and Uggeri (in charge of the whole production and providing samples, field recordings and any other weird sound) have enlarged the team of collaborators, including several singers.

Among them, we find an exceptional featuring by Dominic Appleton, of This Mortal Coil and Breathless, providing lyrics and voice for “Facing the Waves”. Beside him, here's the Chinese most known experimental musician, Yan Jun, and beautiful female voices such as the Finnish Lau Nau and the Swiss Romina Kalsi/Animor.

The British actor John Guilor (voice of the Doctor Who BBC radio drama) add variety to a really hard-to-classify album, while other fellows provide trumpet, cello and drums.

The pictures included in the artwork are from the British painter Graham Crowley.

2020

Reviews and radio: BBC, Toneshift, Byte FM...

"Passionnant." ROLAND TORRES (Sound and Silence)

"Minimal post-rock forged from sparse piano notes which drift into a rarefied air, spun with subtle, near-subliminal swirls of ambience, and stammering, glitching beats that hammer like a palpating heartbeat rattling in a tense ribcage, and picked guitar notes waft into the ether." CHRISTOFER NOSNIBOR (Aural Aggravation)

"Another gem of dreamlike atmospheric composition from the Italian underground scene." MICHELE PALOZZO (Esoteros)

"Opera quanto mai aliena dalle definizioni, "Another Year Is Over, Let's Wait For Springtime" costituisce fonte inesauribile di scoperta." RAFFAELLO RUSSO (Music Won't Save You)

"Another Year Is Over è un fermo immagine che descrive un momento di gioia, un momento magico che viene creato dall'istante in cui inizi ad ascoltare l'album." MARIO ARIANO (Radioaktiv)

"Vergleiche? Schwierig. Eine gewisse Verwandtschaft besteht zum Postrock der späten Talk Talk oder dem einzigen Album ihres Sängers Mark Hollis. Aber die Musik von Open to the Sea ist noch um einiges karger und auch avantgardistischer ausgefallen. " Jochen Rindfrey (Baby Blaue)

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