Lieve is definitely an autumnal album, with its delicate colours and fainted shades. in a way connected with "Fall and Flares".  
In this work i tried to put in all my ideas without thinking of any concept, but just playing. The result is a collection of ten sketches that well represent my state of mind in this world so fragile and frightened. Lieve is the Italian word for saying "gentle", a word that we are slowly forgetting, in the name of selfishness, especially in my country, 
Each track has been conceived like an abstract painting with layers of sounds most of them acoustic with notes of guitar, ukulele, sansula, kalimba, melodica, singing bowls but also noises captured through contact microphones, field recordings, tape loop cassette distortions.. And of course I can't make an album without my inseparable electric piano and electric guitar. 
For this album there are three different masterings, one for the digital platform, one for the cd and one the cassette. A limited edition of handmade cassettes will be kindly prepared by the new-born label Fallow Recording and will be available next year. 
Beauty is a balance of energy between light and dark, like electricity that our body can feel through our senses. Making music is my way in seeking this beauty, something special and unique that allows me to connect, I hope, with listeners. Thanks to anyone who would like to listen to Lieve.

Lieve

KS55 | FRANCIS GRI Lieve "Ruggine sacra"

Imaginary Tales is the first collaboration between Wil Bolton and Francis Gri. Recorded last year between London and Milan, this album signals a wonderful start to 2022 for Krysalisound. 

These six tracks are the perfect sum of the individual sounds of Wil and Francis and their natural propensity to delicate and intimate sonorities. They are rendered with a broad sonic palette that includes modular synth, acoustic and electric guitars, sansula, electric piano, mellotron, found sounds and field recordings. 

Imaginary Tales is an exploration of dreaming landscapes and lonely moments. Each song could be a story, a story without words. Each title is just the beginning of where your imagination may take you if you just close your eyes.

Credits:
releases January 22, 2022 

- All music by Wil Bolton and Francis Gri 
- Composed and recorded between London and Milan in 2021 
- Mixed by Wil Bolton 
- Mastered by Wil Bolton (CD version) and Francis Gri (Digital audio version) 
- Artwork and design by KSND

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KS57 | WIL BOLTON & FRANCIS GRI Imaginary Tales "The Forest Of Whispered Answers"

Francis Gri "Drop180922 - Sunset"

Argine is the result of opposite feelings led by the desire for change. 2022 has been a dense year and the sound of this work could not fail to reflect this adjective. 
I'm pleased to introduce the album using the words included in the cd sleeve. Thanks for listening… 

"On my tiptoes I loosened the screws of parched gears, leaving it to fate to bring down my fake ivory skeleton with a gust of wind. 
My name has been written among the creeks of the time - every name should be like this - but no one has ever reminded me of it. The nuances are imperceptible letters that curve the gaze, small gems given away in the Pisces era. 
Last night I saw tomorrow in a succession of twelve blades, like a pond that suddenly turns into an ocean of tears. It is that smell that penetrates the senses just before the rain arrives, the muddy scent of burnt silk. 
I play arpeggios of inconsistent notes with the unfinished idea of an abstract smile, colored sketches that are linked to my abandoned dreams, thrown into the basement of memory. Timidly I open that door and I sit on the antique armchair in the center of the room. Beyond the walls there is only the mute din of nothing calling me, but I do not answer and with bare feet I wait for the water to rise, touching my skin. 
What is a metamorphosis if not the suffering of a new life? I vomit golden placenta and beg my shadow not to go away. I shake her hand that slowly indulges at the crossroads and, at dawn, a hill of snow-covered cedars turns into my new dwelling. 
Today it is the precious metal that I fold without hurting myself, shiny and unscratchable. Tomorrow I will see my bloody shadow again and among crystal fragments I will dance with him again as a gift that I will repeat until my peaceful farewell." Francis Gri 

Credits
releases November 27, 2022 

- Composed and recorded in 2022 
- Cello on track 5 by Piergiorgio Storti 
- Mixing & Production: Francis Gri 
- Mastering: Francis Gri 
- Artwork: Francis Gri

KS62 | FRANCIS GRI Argine "Basement of Memory"

From the album Cycles

https://krysalisound.bandcamp.com/album/cycles

Francis Gri & Lilium "Time Of Stability"

While

While (full album)

Fuee (part 5)

Stanze e Distanze (part 4)

Lull

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Lull (full ep)

From the album "Valley of Languages"

https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/valley-of-languages

Xu & Francis Gri "Ghost Hills"

TOÀN+Gri "Le Tissage de Rêves (full album)

SVANIRE (full album)

https://francisgri.bandcamp.com/album/bruma

BRUMA (full album)

Sasayaka

“Boke” is the Japanese word for saying blur and mental confusion.
In 2013 a person very close to me was diagnosed with what I call the memory disease.
Unfortunately in these long and struggling years I could see every step of this disorder.
So, I decided to record this album to find a sort of relief in my soul and to make people aware about this painful disease.
Each track is a degenerative phase of this malady that in 2020 has no cure and is becoming every day more widespread. 
Our mind is a recorder that makes us react to the impulses of life. We are the sum of our days spent and without memories we go back to being a blank page.
Interruption of memory is a collision between our dreams and what we are….

Boke

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KS39 | FRANCIS M. GRI Boke "Lost"

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