GAUDI - magnetic (album teaser)
artist: GAUDI
album: magnetic
RareNoise Records 2017
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MAGNETIC is the new album by London based music producer / musician Gaudi, which features a choice selection of sounds from the catalogue of internationally respected experimental label RareNoise Records, as well as direct contributions by several top caliber musicians from the worlds of rock, jazz and electronica.
Best loved and noted to date for his genre blending and high quality dub-centric productions, in MAGNETIC, Gaudi has shown us another aspect of his musical self, other ranges in his musical landscape and he has done it with an all-star cast of supporting musicians.
The list of artists whose sounds were initially chosen by Gaudi from the RareNoise catalogue of releases or who successively added their sounds and skills to the overall project reads like a ‘who’s who’ of musical talent and gives warranted indication as to the quality of the ingredients; They include bass legend and producer extraordinaire Bill Laswell, psychedelic prog-rock bassist Colin Edwin of Porcupine Tree fame, drummer Steve Jansen (of Japan fame), Ted Parsons, the drummer from cult band Killing Joke, Roger Eno on piano, Grammy award winning Eric Mouquet (aka Deep Forest) on grand piano, drummer extraordinaire Pat Mastelotto (known for his work with XTC, King Crimson and David Sylvian), innovatory avant-guard guitarist Eraldo Bernocchi, post-punk experimental guitarist Buckethead (collaborator with Guns ’n’ Roses, Bootsy Collins, Iggy Pop), drummer Nikolaj Bjerre from Lamb, multi-instrumentalist Jamie Saft on bass, Tony Levin also on bass, Pippo De Palma on guitar… to name but a few! (For the full list of featured artists please see below). Gaudi, alongside programming and production, returns to his roots as a pianist / keyboard and Theremin player, playing here his full arsenal of vintage analogue synthesizers.
MAGNETIC is like a tour around the other side of Gaudi, who always had the off-beat of reggae in his step, but since his teenage years also had music from experimental electronica, new wave, krautrock and proto-punk flowing through his veins. Bands like Bauhaus, Tuxedomoon, Yello, Cabaret Voltaire, Devo, Killing Joke, Talkingheads and The Residents informed his early years. For those familiar with Gaudi’s work these influences can be heard in a myriad of different ways in most of his 15 albums to date, but predominantly as flavours amongst the dub textures.
In MAGNETIC, however, he has reversed the polarity, north has become south, there is dub seasoning to be found within, but the body, tone and flavour of this album are another beast altogether. MAGNETIC is a contemporary tribute to the darker side of the 80’s; to psychedelic rock and an era when Sigue Sigue Sputnik dropped proto-punk on the world!
It is not a departure from the Gaudi we know and love, however… MAGNETIC is a celebration of bass in all its guises - there are six world class bass players featured in the album - and GAUDI’s roots as a pianist and self confessed lifelong synth junkie, come up fairly centre stage. His use throughout the album of original, modular and analogue synths, from his big guns: the ARP 2600, Fender Rhodes, Minimoog, Korg MS20 and ARP Odyssey, to the diminutive but no less iconic Casio VL Tone, to his trusty vintage tape echoes and the 24 track analogue tape machine it was recorded on, give the sound an authenticity and integrity right down from the musicians to the mechanics.
MAGNETIC is a both a visual journey of great, but hidden, complexity and richness which yearns to be listened to with closed eyes, but also a voyage across a full spectrum of tempos, from near ambient soundscapes to rocky up-tempos with seamless bridges in between.
MAGNETIC is an album of polarities, spacious yet introspective, dark yet with a hint whimsy, deep and soothing yet fundamentally groovy; it was created both as a homage to the joy music brings and as an act of appreciation for great musicians.
GAUDI : Minimoog, Arp 2600, Theremin, Fender Rhodes, Korg MS20, Arp Odyssey, Piano, Programming
BILL LASWELL : Bass
COLIN EDWIN : Bass
STEVE JANSEN : Drum
TED PARSONS : Drum
ROGER ENO : Piano
JAMIE SAFT : Bass
ERALDO BERNOCCHI : Guitar and Baritone Guitar
ERIC MOUQUET aka DEEP FOREST : Grand Piano
TONY LEVIN : Bass
BUCKETHEAD : Guitar
PAT MASTELOTTO : Drum
MASAMI AKITA aka MERZBOW : Electronic Noises
MARK AANDERUD : Piano
LORENZO FELICIATI : Bass
HERNAN HECHT : Drum
COPPE’ : Voice
ALESSANDRO GWIS : Piano
MARTIN SCHULTE : Electronics
CYRO BAPTISTA : Jew’s Harp
NIKOLAJ BJERRE : Drum
SHANIR EZRA BLUMENKRANZ : Bass
ROBERTO GUALDI : Drum
JAN PETER SCHWALM : Electronics
PIPPO DE PALMA : Guitar
TERJE EVENSEN : Electronic Drum
STEVE NORRIS : Guitar
MICHELE CAVALLARI : Fender Rhodes
EYAL MAOZ : Guitar
BRIAN ALLEN : Trombone