Artist : Stefano Pilia
Title : Healing Memories... And Other Scattering Times
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2005
Date : 01/2011
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 09
Label : Last Visible Dog
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 65:03 min
Size : 83,3 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Healing Memories 13:05
02.The Holy Sailor 03:44
03.The Deep Night Blanket 03:22
04.Makes Us Melancholy 10:04
05.Confident 02:12
06.The Holy Ghost Bird 06:53
07....Present Tension 11:59
08.This Deep Raum Blanket... 04:34
09.Godspeed Gnome 09:10
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65:03 min
"Stefano Pilia is an Italian-based
artist who reminds me most of the mighty
Campbell Kneale AKA Birchville Cat
Motel. These frozen drones unfold like a
slow blooming flower during the first
month of spring. These tracks are
beautiful in a heartbreaking way. It's
like watching the sunset for the final
time, knowing that tomorrow will never
come. On "This Deep Night Blanket Makes
Us Melancholy" takes that singlular
moment when the aforementioned
realization happens and stretches it out
over 10 minutes. This sounds like a
person's life moving in slow motion;
it's effect is dizzying. The two short
tracks,"Healing Memories..." and
"...Present Tension" are obviously
complementary pieces. Both are guitar
based, and both have a sense of hope in
them. They are appropriately titled as
it sounds like the soundtrack of your
one final thread of optimism being
pulled to its very limits. It hangs on
for dear life, but on the latter track
it finally lets go with little more than
a whisper. Pilia shows he has a lot of
range inside the drone field on this
short album, and each of the four tracks
is impressive. Every time I listen to
"Healing Memories" again, I am
constantly reminded of Birchville Cat
Motel. This is a huge compliment as
Campbell Kneale has produced some of the
best music around over the last 10
years. If Stefano Pilia follows in
Kneale's footsteps over the next 10, we
are all in for something extraordinary."
--Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis
Reissue of "Healing Memories in Present
Tension" with an album worth of bonus
material. Stefano also appears as a
member of 3/4 Had Been Eliminated, and
as a collaborator with Black
Forest/Black Sea.
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