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Anything that can be said about this double CD release can also be said about the roar of a rushing stream or the sound of snow falling on a clear night. These two sound artisans have crafted so perfect an auditory environment that it is completely devoid of artifice or noticeable flaw. It is a field of glass on top of a quiet lake.
To some, this might sound dull. To others, it might strike you as meditation music for your yoga class. To all of you, all I can suggest is listening to this journey into sound and be prepared to come out the other side changed by what you've experienced.
Fresh from his spectacular 3” cd-r on Foxglove and another release for A Silent Place, Naples’ Fabio Orsi partners here with sound artisan Gianluca Becuzzi. Orsi is another young and unexpected talent coming through the new Italian pipeline. "The Stones Know Everything" is the second release of his sprawling trilogy with Becuzzi (the first CD, "Muddy Speaking Ghosts Through My Machines," appeared on A Silent Place in late 2006). Gianluca has been around for the better part of two decades making music under the monikers Kinetix, Limbo, and others, but his work with wunderkind Orsi opens a new chapter in his impressive body of work.
Crafting something this immense puts these two musicians into the realm of Stars of the Lid, Birchville Cat Motel and Growing, creating several intense worlds of ambient splendor, juxtaposing the sounds of everyday life with jetstreams of microtones and pulses of audible light. And they handle this enormous task with the care and precision of a watchmaker or a surgeon, but also with the ears of an obvious fan of sound.
tracklist:disc one
1. blue drones for a ballad (part one)
2. another day is fade away (audio sample)
3. the history knocks my bedroom door
4. another night is all around
5. blue drones for a ballad (part two)
disc two
1. lights from the middle of nowhere (part one)
2. timeless
3. lights from the middle of nowhere (part two)
Press for Fabio Orsi:
"A quiet gem of an album from label Small Voices.Each side of Osci comprises a long drift of electronic drones sourced partly from electric guitar,augmented with delicated shadings of samples and field recordings.There’s a subtle use of processed folk music and pacifying sounds of rural calm,but Orsi’s pastoral idyll keeps slipping into deep melancholy-shades of William Basinski-and even dread.The album comes apart in its latter stages and that’s not bad thing,as it might otherwise have degenerated through lack of variety into just another Ambient washout.the soft density of the sound is replaced by a section of slashing,high frequency cymbal effect,wich in turn gives way to a more brutally treated passage of folk song,underpinned by an ominous repeating thud.What sets the album apart is its careful construction and sense of restrained drama;Orsi’s collaborator Kinetix,credited with reworking and producing the material,might have added crucial input in this regard.Osci is a curious,even perplexing album rather than a truly challenging one,but that’s good enough to be going on with." - Keith Molina, The Wire