dear old friend

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

“Paraná Pyhare” means “Great River at Night” . This ambient piece is inspired by the mysterious and vast atmosphere of the Amazon after dark — flowing water, nocturnal voices, and the deep pulse of the rainforest. Recorded dawless, later mastered in Ableton.

Paraná Pyhare

Veil

“New Eyes” by Chad Nathan from the album Underwater Dreamwave

New Eyes #UnderwaterDreamwave

A potential track for the project, Ballard Landscapes 6.

Cousin Silas - Memories Of The Space Age

Mount Carmel

Call

resolve ep. (bandcamp digital download ep.)

https://stabilo-loadbang.bandcamp.com/album/resolve-ep

music / mixed / mastered by stabilo 

:art work

stabilo (speaker gain teardrop)

downlaod

saule

Echoes in the Valley, Vol. 2

I wrote this piece to try out the new Spitfire Audio LABS Textural Pads library, along with a few other LABS sounds. #labscommunity

© 2020 Roger Hooper Music

The picture in the art work is by one of my granddaughters; the background is from Julian Hochgesang on Unsplash. You can see more of Julian's work here: https://unsplash.com/@julianhochgesang

Ocean Moon

Colours on Grey

Colours On Grey

This track uses mostly sounds from Spitfire Audio's 'Olafur Arnalds Stratus' library plus a few taken from Olafur's other Spitfire libraries.

Tumble

The Good Weather For An Airstrike project was initially conceived at the beginning of 2009 to help alleviate the issues caused by suffering from tinnitus, which causes a ringing sensation in the ear and can often result in difficulty sleeping. The idea was to create a collection of relaxing sounds which would help induce sleep. 

His work draws on all of his musical influences and presents itself as a rich tapestry of lulling drones that hints at a diluted form of post-rock.

Ebb

GoodWeatherForAnAirstrike

Recent comments

ᴙevirb

tickeverybox

Related tracks