Floater, by xu

Floater

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	1.	To sink (toward the bottom of the eyeball) 06:08
	2.	Blurred feelings 10:16
	3.	A submerged female atlas I 08:57
	4.	A submerged female atlas II 09:34

about

Released on Cathedral Transmissions (CT39).

“My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of sea, and my eyes are the color of water.”

Anaïs Nin, “House of Incest”

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released November 21, 2015

All music by Nicola Fornasari.

Improvisations recorded during August 2013 using sine waves generator, piano, guitar, tape loops, piezo-amplified toy psaltery, piezo-box, music boxes, fx and looper pedals.

Edited and mastered between June and September 2015 by Nicola Fornasari.

Picture and layout by Nicola Fornasari.
Packaging design by David Newlyn.

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"[...] La sapiente ed equilibrata miscela di suoni provenienti da fonti eterogenee consente ancora una volta a Fornasari di costruire un viaggio coinvolgente dai forti connotati visivi. Non resta che abbandonarsi a questa epifania di una possibile rinascita, un lento perdersi, per potersi ritrovare ad osservare la realtà da un punto di vista differente."

Peppe Trotta on So What
sowhatmusica.wordpress.com/2015/11/24/xu-floater/

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"Fornasari gets back to us with a new corpus of exceptionally moving and obscure sound collages and immersive drone tapestries. [...] Sound metaphors and projections of memory, nostalgia and reflective ego trip. An interesting work and another fine example of isolationist and grainy dronescaping experience."

Philippe Blache on Igloomag
igloomag.com/reviews/xu-floater-cathedral-transmissions

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"Floater is distinctive and imaginative at the same time. [...] The tone of sine waves and reversed guitar create a nice background for percussive sounds from piezo and processed music boxes. [...] It provides calm yet mysterious atmospheres with a touch of experimental music and free improvisation."

Nhung Nguyen on Cánh đồng âm nhạc
canhdongamnhac.com/post/134119368334/floater-xu

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“Floater si atteggia a rappresentare al meglio il lato più istintivo e minimale dell’artista, espresso nella dimensione di un’improvvisazione elettro-acustica curatissima nei dettagli di ambientazioni sospese e fortemente evocative."

Raffaello Russo on Music won't save you
musicwontsaveyou.com/2015/12/10/xu-floater/

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xu Cremona, Italy

Xu is the solo project of Nicola Fornasari. It combines elements of ambient, modern classical, minimalism, drone and field recordings.

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