Released on Florina Cassettes. Listen to the full album here: florinacassettes.bandcamp.com/album/sempre-encara

In his third release, Joan Jordi Oliver persists in the medium of electronic production and the promise of the endless digital canvas as means for sonic transformation. Playful improvisations and a rich palette of acoustic sources - from instrumental sounds to intimate field recordings - are treated with delicate electronic manipulation, rendering discreet gestures into expansive soundscapes in a process of patient transfiguration.

The dense fog of electronic processing obscures the original sound sources. It is however paired with more transparent structures, plain harmonic progressions and recurring melodic motives. They weave together, constantly moving back and forth between familiarity and ambiguity, gently guiding the listener through a journey of isolated musical moments.

The music of "Sempre Encara" (’still, always’) reflects on notions of permanence, decay and the persistency of memory. The nostalgic character of the musical material, coupled with colourful sound manipulation, attempts to imagine music as a distant memory or as an echo within a dream. Melancholic motifs, whispering melodies and contemplative drones evoke a sense of longing for a time or place that remains elusive, suspended between reality and idealization.

released December 6, 2024

Written and produced by Joan Jordi Oliver, Summer 2023 & 2024
Instrumental lines performed by Ensemble TaG Winterthur
Mastering by James Edward Armstrong
Design by Anne-Julie Dudemaine
Photos by Pier-Luc Tremblay
Original painting "Rinaldo and the Nymphs" by Gianantonio Guardi and Francesco Guardi (Oil on canvas, about 1745-1755)

Released on Florina Cassettes

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Composer, saxophonist and producer. His work merges acoustic sources and live instrumentation with electronic manipulation, rejecting stylistic constraints and craving its own identity somewhere at the intersection of ambient, minimalism, free improvisation, contemporary classical music and experimental electronica.

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