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Released in partnership with our friends at Berlin-based-Italian-at-heart label @hell-yeah, the final transmission from Cascine in 2015 comes from Italian producers Tempelhof and celebrated composer & director, Gigi Masin. The newest piece of work from the trio's ongoing collaborative sessions also serves as the first glimpse into an album scheduled for Spring. 

Tempelhof (Luciano Ermondi and Paolo Mazzacani) are known for their spacious downtempo musings, songs that are rich and musical, yet economical in emotion. Having previously released one solo album (Frozen Dancers), a handful of 12” singles and another collaborative LP with Masin (Hoshi) in 2014, Tempelhof are deeply respected at home in Mantua and throughout niche producer circles across Europe, North America and Asia. 
 
On "Tuvalu," the pair once again team up with Venetian composer Gigi Masin, a man who’s played an important role in Italy’s music community since the ‘70s – on radio, on television and in theatre via his directorial work. An ongoing source of inspiration to others, artists including Bjork and To Rococo Rot have sampled his music. More recently, Masin's full-length Talk To The Sea is regarded as a benchmark ambient LP, while album Lifted 1, released April of this year, created with Maxmillion Dunbar and Co La under the name Lifted, is still garnering praise. Together, Masin's and Tempelhof’s chemistry is organic, elegant and undeniable.

Tempelhof x Gigi Masin - Tuvalu

After 2014’s brilliant Hoshi LP, Hell Yeah Recordings is delighted to announce a second album from Italians Tempelhof and acclaimed countryman and composer Gigi Masin. Entitled Tsuki and due for release late april, it features nine tracks of exquisitely designed modern ambient with a blissful tinge of the beach, sun and sea... did we use the word Balearic?

Tempelhof is musicians Luciano Ermondi and Paolo Mazzacani, a pair who have put out three great albums and many magical EPs since 2009. They are expert craftsmen who are skilled musicians with a rare grasp of melody, rhythm and timbre. Once again here their work with Gigi Masin—who was picked as one of the best artists of 2015 by many outlets, and who enjoyed lots of love for his re-issued Wind album, amongst others—is soothing, stunning and serene.

Things open up with Tuvalu’ a rippling, suspensory track full of lush chords, floating synth lines and angelic harmonies. From there things stay perfectly horizontal, with dangling hang drums and transcendental drum lines slowly unfolding on tracks like Corner Song.

Tracks like Vampeta, with their drifting trumpets and plaintive pianos, are hugely absorbing and captivating. They feel orchestral in make up, with live drums and oodles of reverb cocooning you in beautiful sound. Far from performing the same trick over and over, darker, more sombre moods also pop up on Komorebi, whispered vocals make for tender additions to Blue 13 and the glassy textures and clear summer skies of Labyrinth take you to another place entirely.

This is another faultless album from Tempelhof and Gigi Masin that is not only musically adventurous and hugely accomplished, but is also expertly emotional and honest.

Tempelhof & Gigi Masin - Blue 13

Trancendental and dreamy drums characterise the new age ‘Corner Song’, which is the sound of laying back on a boat and bobbing up and down on gentle seas at sunrise. It’s organic and soothing to the max.

Taken from Tsuki
https://hellyeahrec.bandcamp.com/album/tsuki

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