A Sense of Loss, Romans Nosound third disc, is aging. After the first experiments soloists Giancarlo Erra, culminating in the album Sol29 (2005), and the establishment of a real band, that Lightdark (2008) has established itself as one of the most interesting Italian, with A Sense of Loss Nosound to acquire a personality that in previous work was not yet fully mature. From the first, ethereal notes of the disc you will feel a more personal re-elaboration of the proposal, between ambient, progressive rock and post rock. Atmospheres suspended, like a thick autumn mist, the taste is vaguely dreamy and psychedelic. The lesson is always one of the first Porcupine Tree and No-man, but the sensitivity with which Erra is the sound material is personal, and fully mature. A carpet of floating synths, keyboards and strings creating a compact layer of sound but never heavy, which penetrate the delicate guitar arpeggios and melancholy piano notes. The sensation is that of wandering, aimlessly, in a lonely town and made a slight cold fog. In a few moments a light comes on in a house, and seems to guide us with its warmth, but nothing is definite, and we get lost again. The melodies are sketches that slide without being fully grasp, and give a sense of incompleteness that makes this work even more fascinating and mysterious.
The beginning is a delicate and fragile, the atmosphere is alienating, and immediately we feel lost in the longer original agreement. Chill Some Warmth Into this, the opening track, sets aside the search for a melody carrier in favor of an analysis of the atmosphere, and reaches its climax in a short solo piano style reminiscent of David Sylvian. With the subsequent
Fading Silently we are introduced to a universe that runs in slow motion, and the melodies are more recognizable and easy to port. The song's structure as a fascinating symphonic arrangement that perfectly matches the few piano notes and calibrated, demonstrating the ability of the band to create complex arrangements but never heavy, and perfectly functional communication needs of the songs. Tender
Claim draws more explicitly psychedelic style of Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson, the main source of inspiration for the band. But Nosound elaborate symphonic pop psychedelic flavors with a maturity far greater than in the past. Like its predecessor, this track also instrumental in the second part runs, but then lost to the ambient drift of a carpet really fascinating.
My Apology song proves to be a more ground, led by a beautiful arpeggio guitar and voice of Erra. The layers become thinner sound in this melancholy ballad, which still retains the atmosphere twilight and vaguely dreaming of the rest of the album. Erra's voice convinces with its slow pace and deeply hypnotic, but maybe the tone is quite intense and warm, natural, and is a very small defect in a disc failed.
Constant Contrast sounds like a silent meditation of Bark Psychosis, and in his melancholy hypnosis is rich in details that intertwine perfectly without overlapping. Thin, full of gaps, is a crucial moment of the disc. A dream that slips into the damp fog enveloping the album, a step without which we could not enter into the long final suite.
The Winter Will Come 15 minutes are the film's final chapter. The surreal dream-like fog that has guided us this far, it develops and becomes a new awareness, opens showing it more clearly, with clarity. This is not through easy and immediate melodies, but through an evolution of the atmospheres that are more bright and warm here, and direct us down a road that has defined the structure of the piece, somewhere between progressive rock and post rock. There is a sense of calm and peace, that we see more clearly behind the veil of nostalgic melancholy. An epic finale, but not redundant, reminiscent of Sigur Ros for her growing up, her long pauses, and restarts. The fog thinned, and the feeling is to be on a deserted beach in autumn, savoring the last warm sun, before the explosion of a new, cold, winter. A distortion powerful bursts, accompanied once again by the strings, and the song opens, wonderful, before crumpling back and take breath. A passage to grasp once the lifeblood of background music, before the final bars, epic and dramatic. If the earlier
Lightdark showed a band capable of composing great music, A Sense of Loss is not only a confirmation of this capability, but it is a decisive step forward in the development of personality. Perhaps lacks the maturity to compose melodies carrier effective to graft on the magnificent carpets ambient, but perhaps it is this incompleteness that gives most extraordinary charm of this album, able to mix wisdom with complex arrangements and intimate emotions, never losing intensity.
The beginning is a delicate and fragile, the atmosphere is alienating, and immediately we feel lost in the longer original agreement. Chill Some Warmth Into this, the opening track, sets aside the search for a melody carrier in favor of an analysis of the atmosphere, and reaches its climax in a short solo piano style reminiscent of David Sylvian. With the subsequent
Fading Silently we are introduced to a universe that runs in slow motion, and the melodies are more recognizable and easy to port. The song's structure as a fascinating symphonic arrangement that perfectly matches the few piano notes and calibrated, demonstrating the ability of the band to create complex arrangements but never heavy, and perfectly functional communication needs of the songs. Tender
Claim draws more explicitly psychedelic style of Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson, the main source of inspiration for the band. But Nosound elaborate symphonic pop psychedelic flavors with a maturity far greater than in the past. Like its predecessor, this track also instrumental in the second part runs, but then lost to the ambient drift of a carpet really fascinating.
My Apology song proves to be a more ground, led by a beautiful arpeggio guitar and voice of Erra. The layers become thinner sound in this melancholy ballad, which still retains the atmosphere twilight and vaguely dreaming of the rest of the album. Erra's voice convinces with its slow pace and deeply hypnotic, but maybe the tone is quite intense and warm, natural, and is a very small defect in a disc failed.
Constant Contrast sounds like a silent meditation of Bark Psychosis, and in his melancholy hypnosis is rich in details that intertwine perfectly without overlapping. Thin, full of gaps, is a crucial moment of the disc. A dream that slips into the damp fog enveloping the album, a step without which we could not enter into the long final suite.
The Winter Will Come 15 minutes are the film's final chapter. The surreal dream-like fog that has guided us this far, it develops and becomes a new awareness, opens showing it more clearly, with clarity. This is not through easy and immediate melodies, but through an evolution of the atmospheres that are more bright and warm here, and direct us down a road that has defined the structure of the piece, somewhere between progressive rock and post rock. There is a sense of calm and peace, that we see more clearly behind the veil of nostalgic melancholy. An epic finale, but not redundant, reminiscent of Sigur Ros for her growing up, her long pauses, and restarts. The fog thinned, and the feeling is to be on a deserted beach in autumn, savoring the last warm sun, before the explosion of a new, cold, winter. A distortion powerful bursts, accompanied once again by the strings, and the song opens, wonderful, before crumpling back and take breath. A passage to grasp once the lifeblood of background music, before the final bars, epic and dramatic. If the earlier
Lightdark showed a band capable of composing great music, A Sense of Loss is not only a confirmation of this capability, but it is a decisive step forward in the development of personality. Perhaps lacks the maturity to compose melodies carrier effective to graft on the magnificent carpets ambient, but perhaps it is this incompleteness that gives most extraordinary charm of this album, able to mix wisdom with complex arrangements and intimate emotions, never losing intensity.
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