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"A Trip Inside" is the first official release of ELECTRO / MAGNETIC, an Ambient solo project by Italian music artist Nicola Maggi.
After many years of beat making with a DAW, he decided to change direction and started experimenting with cassettes, tape loops, analog and digital synthesizers, samples and all kind of recordings to create soundscapes with organic textures and drones, without leaving aside musicality and harmony.

Searching for a lighter, direct and less calculated way to compose music, he started enjoying a tactile approach: his signature style is to mix his songs live with a cassette 4-track recorder.
The warmth of tape, the imperfections of analog, the unplanned decisions pour into the inspiration of the moment, crystalizing into a unique result with a precise coordinate in space and time.

He gets inspiration from the landscape he lives in, between the Como Lake and the Prealps. The depths of the dark waters and the peaks of the green and grey mountains are the impulse to explore the depths and peaks inside himself.

Videos of the recordings are available on Youtube: shorturl.at/oQTY9

GEAR USED:
-Yamaha CMX100 Cassette Multitrack Recorder
-Zoom MS70 CDR
-Korg Volca Keys
-Korg Volca FM
-Yamaha QY100
-An old Walkman
-An old crappy dictaphone
-Zoom Q2n
-Ableton Live (with some 3rd part plugins)

Holy

Here is my latest ambient dubtechno track. All played live with modular, other hardware synths and ableton push1.

This track is dedicated to Jukka Mikkola from Avaruusromua radio show.

Thank you for the past 30 years of amazing trip to ambient music.

Longtime since the last time

Recorded in a hedge during lockdown.
JHS SD-1 pro-rhythm analogue drum synthesiser looped on RC-30 through DD6 delay pedal.  Birdsong taken from same session 090620.

drone-in-the-woods|tales from the hedge no.1

A Summer Haunting

Departure

This one’s for Dad. It was inspired by the poem “Heavy” by Mary Oliver:

That time
I thought I could not
go any closer to grief
without dying

I went closer,
and I did not die.
Surely God
had his hand in this,

as well as friends.
Still, I was bent,
and my laughter,
as the poet said,

was nowhere to be found.
Then said my friend Daniel,
(brave even among lions),
“It’s not the weight you carry

but how you carry it –
books, bricks, grief –
it’s all in the way
you embrace it, balance it, carry it

when you cannot, and would not,
put it down.”
So I went practicing.
Have you noticed?

Have you heard
the laughter
that comes, now and again,
out of my startled mouth?

How I linger
to admire, admire, admire
the things of this world
that are kind, and maybe

also troubled –
roses in the wind,
the sea geese on the steep waves,
a love
to which there is no reply?

Lament (Heavy)

2021 day 9 : ORBIT

ELECTRO / MAGNETIC is the Ambient solo project by the Italian music artist Nicola Maggi. He uses tape, synths and samples mixed with some amount of improvisation and spontaneity to create rich, lush textures and deeply emotional melodies.

Holy

Electro / Magnetic

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