Glacial Movements
Six releases until the year 2000, one release in the year the world could have ended and as the world didn't end, Gianluigi Gasparetti dedicated himself to making ambient and released seventy-four titels since. Alone under the name Oophoi or in collaboration with many artists of which Klaus Wiese is just one of them.
Admitted, his works are mostly unknown to me except for a sampler contribution here and there, so "An aerial view" is a nice place to start exploring his mind. And his mind is one that perfectly fits in the scene of Italian ambient artists. Nice long-stretched pads and strings under a bouquet of miniature pre-recorded sounds and modulations.
The subtitle of this album is "for theremin and synths" which seems to be referring to the source of these recordings. The fact that synths are being used is quite obvious in the aural spectrum, but even after several listenings I can't find the theremin-sound. Not that it devaluates the music, hell no!
The soundscape being presented is just what a soundscape should be - nice, filling the empty spaces, giving you enough perspective to follow it on both high volume as well as background-volume. And as stated before: True Italian ambience, so if Hic Sunt Leones and Amplexus releases are your 'thing', do not hesitate to dive into the ice-cold world that is Wurm.
The Wurm-series is a new sub-division of Glacial Movements, but I must admit that I miss the deeper contemplation of creating a sub-label at this moment in time. Both divisions focus on ambient in a cold environment and this is only the fourth release from Glacial Movements. The future might explain it, we just have to wait on yet another nice release from Italy.
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