Cousin Silas - Our Memories

Lorenzo Masotto is a composer and pianist from Verona, Italy, with releases on labels such as Sonder House, Lady Blunt Records, Preserved Sound and Dronarivm. He has performed in many venues, most notably London’s Union Chapel whilst tours have taken him to California Sofar and concerts at the Iberian Theater in Lisbon and the concert at De Helling in Utrecht.

i=r is an album which Lorenzo started to write when the pandemic broke out across northern Italy and much of the world, in March 2020. He set out initially to explore the complete tonal possibilities of a Seiler upright piano, restricted to two microphones. He became fascinated as he discovered the beauty and sonic elegance of a hammer touching the string, muffled by felt, as the motion and vibrations created all kinds of creaks and noises within the wood.

i=r, known as Snell’s Law, is the law of refraction. Each piece of this album represents a different refraction, as different points of view reflected in an artificial or natural mirror. The accompanying photography by Michele Dolci is as much a part of the album as the music, as individual scenes of symmetry, asymmetry and reflection each depict a given track from the album.

It is perhaps fitting exactly one year on since the ideas behind this album emerged, that this bright and fluid collection of compositions beam their rays of hope back from those dark reflections. Light and darkness, warmth and cold, strong and frail, hopeful and despairing. Our hope now is to emerge into the light, under the warmth of spring, with a renewed strength born of our collective despair.

Written, produced and mastered by Lorenzo Masotto
Photography by Michele Dolci
Graphic design and layout by Andrew Heath

wlr091 Lorenzo Masotto - i=r

Fragments II - 04 In Love

The Sustain Series project continues with its second volume, 24 recycled forms created from old and unused material. Since the release of Volume 1 in November last year, more artists have come together to salvage, repurpose, restore and deconstruct each other’s pieces, or collaborate on a particular idea. What results is a growing variety of approaches and outputs, from minor embellishments to full disfigurement.

Volume 2 moves thematically, as if in four chapters, from the expressive openers, through enchanting natural-sounding pieces, before opening up to more ethereal expanses, and finally darker and more thoughtful ones. As it does, visions emerge of our natural world - its power, its beauty and its vulnerability.

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Halftribe - One (Atmøsphäre Recycle)

awakened souls - piedro blanco (Off Land Recycle)

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birds of passage - without the world

Part of We Dream of Eden's stunning new Songs for Storms EP, this track is an atmospheric, evocative reflection on waiting for a storm to pass...

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Songs for Storms

Counting the Seconds

Counting the Seconds (with We Dream of Eden)

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“Glissando” – an abstract orchestral–ambient soundscape with a cinematic edge.  
Blending real instruments and string samples, it evokes the mood of a modern trailer soundtrack: immersive, expansive, and atmospheric.


For this haiku:
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Star above the peak -
a silk worm-breeding village
silently asleep

Poem by Mizuhara Shuoshi
Photo by Fabrizio Conti

Above The Peak, Glissando - naviarhaiku613

Henrik & Ni!'s tale of the forest: bit.ly/48DxCev

Jupi/ter's temporal exploration: https://bit.ly/47FcP9m

Fionnlagh's story remixed: https://bit.ly/3hdecqL

Meierkord and pals' ode to beauty: https://bit.ly/3TiEaGM

Marco & Henrik's foray into the sublime: https://bit.ly/3F4Okag

Recycled music - Sustain Series, Vol. 3: https://bit.ly/amb-sustain3

Henrik Meierkord & Sole Gipp Ossler's powerful ode to knowledge: https://bit.ly/3aPVWRj

Jolanda Moletta's ode to her female ancestors: https://bit.ly/3M8lLch

Origin ST's climate musings: https://bit.ly/3wOh1Ew

Sven Laux & Logic Moon's deep loss: https://bit.ly/3yLUjvI

Fionnlagh's chilling dystopia: https://bit.ly/2SZvdsi

anthéne's ocean at night: https://bit.ly/3CvnwM9

Free electronics by Fields We Found: bit.ly/3ioQFA7

Recycled music - Sustain Series, Vol. 2: https://bit.ly/34pWYNg

Henrik & Jupi/ter's glowing heart-opener: https://bit.ly/3fH7PIY

Logic Moon & Atmøsphäre's dance in the shadows: https://bit.ly/39Q7GzJ

Jupi/ter's vivid colours: https://bit.ly/3hX3YHu

Henrik Meierkord's most emotive: https://bit.ly/3n8EFnx

Recycled music - Sustain Series, Vol. 1: https://bit.ly/3nW52x3

Henrik's colouring of Jupi/ter's 202: https://spoti.fi/3iAONSM

Julia Gjertsen & Nico Rosenberg's heart-opening ambient piano: https://bit.ly/2FyJ3Lq

Fossil Hunting Collective's pensive introspection: https://bit.ly/2DHB528

Rinnovare's lush double single: https://bit.ly/3ikpmVJ

Chris Otchy's algorithmic labyrinth: https://bit.ly/37SwDZ9

Jupi/ter's first chapter: https://bit.ly/2XegcBc

Still Harbours, aka anthéne & Fossil Hunting Collective: http://bit.ly/2XX1jDy

Henrik Meierkord's winter warmth: http://bit.ly/34mDmaE

Antarctic Wastelands and the icy journey: http://bit.ly/2mTPxLC

Logic Moon & Henrik Meierkord - Skogsfolk

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