Published
Tue, Nov 19, 2019, 16:55
- The ambient LP is out February 28th via Apollo.
Gigi Masin's new album, Calypso, was inspired by the Greek islands.
Calypso is the unofficial name for Gavdos, the southernmost Greek island, AKA Ogygia in ancient mythology. (In Homer's Odyssey, the nymph Calypso imprisoned Odysseus on Ogygia for seven years.) The 16-track ambient album is out February 28th via R&S subsidiary Apollo.
"Gavdos gives you profound sensations in every corner, as here you can find enchantment, mystery, the getting lost to forget, to erase and drown the memories in a light and salty water," says Masin.
On his production methods, he adds: "[Calypso was made using] the same old software, a simple, sort of a child-proof game from the mid-'90s or what experts call a 'beta.' It's a kind of mixer where you have to insert the music files as they are, naked and simply as recorded. But it works like I have six or eight tape recorders where my sounds are not locked, so my chance of giving them a perfect position isn't always certain. Often it seems the sound found its own way without human logic, and the music appears as a revelation."
Listen to the title track.
Tracklist
01. Calypso
02. Bellamore
03. Nefertiti
04. If
05. Anemone
06. Khalifa Golf Club
07. Mayo Slide
08. Susan Maybe
09. Amaranta
10. Coraline
11. How To Disappear In A Kiss
12. Cry Winds Or Flames
13. Enter Venus
14. On Demons And Diamonds feat. Ben Vince
15. The Water Sibyl
16. Your Name Is My Infinite
Apollo will release Calypso on February 28th, 2020.
Photo credit: FaroLato
