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Something More Beautiful Than Perfection

by xu

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Helgoland 06:56
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Like a man approaching a flowing river 05:48
3.
Repulse the monkey 06:24
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Grasp reflex 05:58
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Feelings spent, talking finished 05:52
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Misapprehensions 07:44
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A chance animal sighting 02:52
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Kintsugi 05:17

about

The record was made entirely with one monophonic analog synthesizer (an Arturia Minibrute) and just a few raw field recordings, providing some natural background noise.
Having been created during the various lockdowns, working with contraints seemed to me the most natural thing to explore. Considering also that since I bought the synthesizer I struggled to get out of it an "ambient" sound of some kind, my attempt was also to work with something problematic.
Both things paralleled the limitations and troubles we experienced in real life.
The raw sounds of the filtered oscillators, altered only by some pedal fx and sometimes live-looped through an ipad app, were subsequently equalized and layered.

credits

released June 10, 2022

nicola fornasari: arturia minibrute, field recordings, gauss field looper on ipad, pedal fx, processing.

recorded between 2020 and 2021
mixed by nicola fornasari
mastered by andrea porcu
layout by nicola fornasari
photography and sculpture by billie bond

Shimmering Moods Records 2022
shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/something-more-beautiful-than-perfection

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Nicola Fornasari used a single monophonic synth, some pedals, and an iPad looping program to create this one. The limitations emphasize how good Fornasari is at building melodic tension and shaping the space of a track. There are a lot of people working in whatever ambient is who have a fraction of Fornasari’s talent. This man is on a hot streak.

Sasha Frere-Jones
theshfl.com/album/Something-More-Beautiful-Than-Perfection

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

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