AQUA DORSA "Cloudlands"
Powerful stuff, rife with ingenuity and constantly interesting—more please, fellas SIGNAL TO NOISE 55
...cloud lands nearer to Köner country and Roach worlds IGLOO MAG
Aquadorsa is a new musical Italian ambient project formed by Enrico Coniglio and Oophoi.Theyr first work "Cloudlands" is a perfect mix of glithc,classical and orchestral glacial ambient soundscape.Enrico Coniglio is a guitar player and composer and his research has increasingly focused on the relationship between 'music' and 'landscape ', in an attempt to represent the contemporary crisis of the territory, the loss of nature and identity of places, and the unknown on the evolution of post-urban and post-industrial territory. He has collaborated with various artists, including: Nicola Alesini, Joachim Roedelius and Elisa Marzorati.He has produced some releases such as "AREAVIRUS - topofonie vol.1" (2007 Psychonavigation), "dyanMU" (2008 Psychonavigation) and digital releases Sapientumsuperacquis on Touch Radio (Touch records) and Crònicaster (Crònica Electronica).Gianluigi Gasparetti better know as Oophoi started his own music experiments in 1995, trying to explore the shores of deep space-ambient. His live album "The spirals of time", released in 1997 by Amplexus, has been voted as one of the best ambient albums of all times.Oophoi uses traditional instruments as synths and sampling machines and his music is recorded using analog-only devices in The Kiva.He has released CDs for many International labels such as Amplexus, Hypnos, Nextera, Prikosnovénie and Glacial Movements and he has collaborated with Louisa John Krol,Alio die,Mathias Grassow and Klaus Wiese.
Tracklist
1. A Pillow of Clouds (5.22)
2. Daylight Fading Into Evening Silence (5.05)
3. The Pond Reflected Her Smile (9.13)
4. Zero Gravity (10.59)
5. Syhan (12.11)
6. Alone in the Rising Fog (18.31)
7. Night of Trembling Stars (06.05)
All sound material has been recorded and mixed by Enrico Coniglio at Tripi h. Studio (Venice-Italy) and Oophoi in The Kiva, winter 2008
A Glacial Movements Records release, May 2009.All right reserved.