ARTIST...: Not Glass
TITLE....: Forma
YEAR.....: 2019
LABEL....: Ecstatic
CAT.NO...: ELP042
GENRE....: Ambient
TIME.....: 37:51
SIZE.....: 86.74 MB
QUALITY..: 320kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo
ENCODER..: LAME
SOURCE...: WEB
RLS.DATE.: 2019/08/13
WEBSITE..: https://play.google.com/store/music/album/?id=B5c6c6tfi2zrga7yqem6mizc4ly
TRACKLIST
01) (12:46) Fallite Fallentes
02) (05:09) Dum Loquor Hora Fugit
03) (02:46) Ludicrum
04) (04:54) Pauper Ubique Iacet
05) (05:20) Ut Ameris Amabilis Esto
06) (06:56) Forma Bonum Fragile Est
* Immersive, theatrical collab by Not Waving and Jay Glass Dubs, aka Not Glass
* Inspired by quotes by classical ancient Greek/Latin poet-philosophers Ovid & Heraclitus
* Mystic kosmiche ambient meets inverted dub and tribal rhythms
* Mastered at vinyl cut at D&M, Berlin.
Not Glass is the wonderfully lofty, classically-rooted debut collaboration between
Alessio Natalizia (Not Waving) and his longtime correspondent Dimitris Papadatos (Jay
Glass Dubs), paying tribute to Latin and Greek authors Ovid and Heraclitus in a suite
of dramatic electronics and cryptic rhythms comparable to a theatrical soundtrack.
Knowingly, ironically pretentious, yet serious with it, æFormaÆ is the result of
years of daily Facebook chats between the London and Athens-based artists where they
cemented the albumÆs concept around key quotes by the legendary poet/philosophers,
who hail from their respective homelands of Italy and Greece. The results are in
effect a spellbinding attempt to transmute those notions within the collaborative,
contemporary framework of their music, using patented palettes of hardware, vocals,
and FX to render and reflect core classical mythological and philosophical ideas
about drama, love, metaphysics, cosmology and the ôunity of oppositesö.
On this timeless plane, Natalizia and Papadatos both step outside of themselves to
find ôwhat opposes unitesö, spaciously consolidating their typical, yet contrasting,
rhythm-driven approaches in a reverberant, often beat less sphere of exploration.
Removed from their usual handrails, the artists operate at their most open-ended and
subtly suggestive, amorphously shapeshifting from gloaming shadowplays of synth and
keys to investigate arcane percussive impulses and iridescent ambient whorls.
The result is a perfect, finely shaded marriage of their mutually esoteric, outsider
Southern European energies, which intuitively acknowledges and inhabits the paradoxes
of their respective styles. The illusively static yet mercurial ebb and flow of the
atmospheric intro æFallite fallentesÆ sets the scene, where æDum loquor, hora fugitÆ
invokes a viscous but brittle tangle of wide bass and pointillist rhythms beside a
stately cello vignette æLudicrum_???????Æ that recalls aspects of Scott WalkerÆs
mystic charm ÆSousedÆ. The rapid arps and slow moving, glassy pads of æPauper ubique
iacetÆ conjure a sublime tension that becomes diffused into the cavernous, hollow dub
dread of æUt ameris, amabilis estoÆ, possessed with its throaty, processed vocal, and
the lonely strings and plasmic electronics of æForma bonum fragile estÆ connotes a
psychedelic coming-to-terms with their artistic/philosophic duality.
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