Limited Edition / 50 copies / Hand Numbered / Hand Made Packages / Various colored wallets with envelopes / Professional duplicated cdr
https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/something-more-beautiful-than-perfection

The record was made entirely with one monophonic analogue synthesizer (an Arturia Minibrute) and just a few raw field recordings, providing some natural background noise. Having been created during the various lockdowns, working with constraints seemed to me the most natural thing to explore. Considering also that since I bought the synthesizer I struggled to get out of it an "ambient" sound of some kind, my attempt was also to work with something problematic. Both things paralleled the limitations and troubles we experienced in real life. The raw sounds of the filtered oscillators, altered only by some pedal fx and sometimes live-looped through an ipad app, were subsequently equalized and layered.

Nicola Fornasari: arturia minibrute, field recordings, gauss field looper on ipad, pedal fx, processing.

Mixed by Nicola Fornasari
Recorded between 2020 and 2021
Layout by Nicola Fornasari
Mastered by Andrea Porcu
Photography and sculpture by Billie Bond

Something More Beautiful Than Perfection

A Chance Animal Sighting (Something more Beautiful than Perfection - Shimmering Moods)

https://xu-substance.bandcamp.com/album/six-piano-things

I recently came across a number of "abandoned" recordings on my old macbook. These are tracks or sketches dating back to various periods (from around 2018 to 2020) and they all have piano as their main audio source.
The original recordings (some previously dubbed on tape) were then heavily processed in Ableton Live and recently reworked to make them (more or less) consistent with each other.

The result is in some way a collection of raw sounding sketches which, however, well represent my interest at that time in creating an opus starting only from piano sounds and loops. Only a few processed field recordings have been added (however recorded by acting on the body of the piano) and just a touch of Minibrute on track 2 and Volca FM on track 3.

Six Piano Things

Then You Run The Faucet

Then You Run The Faucet - from "Six Piano Things"

"At dawn and dusk you come" began as a series of improvisations recorded in a single day without anything premeditated and starting mainly from spontaneously generated sounds and not from pre-recorded samples. During mixing nothing was removed or added, we worked only on duration of individual parts and volumes to leave intact the spontaneity of the material.

Recorded on February 9, 2014.
Mixed and mastered by Twys during April 2014.
Released June 30, 2014.
Laverna Netlabel (Lav61).


Twyxu is a duo composed of Omar Martani (Twys) and Nicola Fornasari (Xu).

Twys: guitar, fx pedals, looper, ipad
Xu: piezo-amplified objects, fx pedals, looper, samplr on ipad

Download from Laverna Netlabel:
http://www.laverna.net/releases/Lav61.html

Download from Bandcamp:
https://xu-substance.bandcamp.com/album/at-dawn-and-dusk-you-come

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At dawn and dusk you come, for those that have devotion.
Riding on the rays of the rising and setting sun.

Dusk part I | Twyxu - At dawn and dusk you come - Laverna.net

Featured on the Eilean Rec compilation 'Eilean [53] Various Artists' (2014). You can get it here: eileanrec.bandcamp.com/album/various-artists

Xu - The Man On The Floating Isle - Out on 'Eilean [53] - Various Artists'

Available 21 November 2015 - Cathedral Transmissions.

Improvisations recorded during August 2013 using  sine waves generator, piano, guitar, tape loops, piezo-amplified toy psaltery, piezo-box, music boxes, fx and looper pedals.
Edited and mastered between June and September 2015 by Nicola Fornasari.

“My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of sea, and my eyes are the color of water.”
Anaïs Nin, “House of Incest”


Xu - A Submerged Female Atlas (part I) - out on Cathedral Transmissions

Here is another track taken from "whisper my world" ... the CD is sold out on Eilean shop, but I have a handful of copies. If you have not yet managed to buy a copy you can order it from my bandcamp:

https://xu-substance.bandcamp.com/album/whisper-my-world

Whisper my World

Old People And Young Children

Old People And Young Children - Whisper my world (Eilean Rec)

Xu is my solo project. I'm also part of: Xu(e), That Which is Not, La Petite Vague, Twyxu, Zero Wait enSemble.
My works have been released on Fluid, Eilean, Whitelabrecs, Krysalisound, Flaming Pines, Rottenman Editions, Rohs! / Lontano, Twice Removed, Cathedral Transmissions, Triple Moon, Thirsty Leaves Music, Audio Gourmet, Tessellate, Haze, Many Feet Under, Subterranean Tide and Laverna.

Nicola Fornasari | Xu

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