Air Sculptures, by federico mosconi

Air Sculptures

by federico mosconi

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Ur Trommler Equal parts thunder and light, a magnificent achievement - on repeat...
Favorite track: Air Sculptures.

eventuate evocative ambient music with a gentle sense of direction, thus it never feels stagnant. a masterful blend of guitar with natural textures and drones drenched in effects. Favorite track: Back To Life.

alapastel A hidden masterpiece for audiophiles and deep listeners. It's full of unusual ideas and emotionally it goes very deep. With the eyes closed the sculptures are almost physical. It’s albums like these that get me excited about music again. Favorite track: Wandering.

Gyakkun mosconi is new to me as of this release, and what an exceptional introduction! I'm a absolute sucker for guitar-based drone and ambient, and Air Sculptures is a perfect example of everything I love in the genre. Beyond the wide dynamic and tonal range that mosconi explores, the flawless incorporation of textural percussive elements is what makes this album most exciting. Favorite track: Foam.

Joe Borreson Exceptional and texturally deep, earthy, guitar based drone with field recordings and lots of heady distortion throughout this album with some 'natural' classical guitar sounds interspersed to keep things grounded. Some of this sounds as if Kali Malone and Rafael Anton Irrisari met Federico at dusk and all collaborated. Once again Lost Tribe Sound continues to produce very tasteful releases. Favorite track: Breath.

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1.	Breath 05:25	buy track
2.	Back To Life 05:44	buy track
3.	Foam 04:14	buy track
4.	Air Sculptures 06:58	buy track
5.	Blood 05:00 video	buy track
6.	Wandering 04:04	buy track
7.	A New Dawn 06:27	buy track
8.	A Flower is Blooming 02:38	buy track

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Federico Mosconi's 'Air Sculptures' is the seven release in Lost Tribe Sound’s album series, Salt and Gravity. The series includes albums from Arrowounds, Adrian Copeland (aka Alder & Ash), Tony Dupé (aka Saddleback), ’t Geruis, Federico Mosconi, sanr, mastroKristo, and Alapastel. To receive 'Air Sculptures' on CD or Digital at a discount, subscribe to the series here: losttribesound.bandcamp.com/album/salt-and-gravity-series

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LTS has been following the work of Italian classical guitarist and composer Federico Mosconi since first hearing ‘Light not Light’ released in 2019. We were impressed by the album’s balance between solemn guitar movements, abstract noise, and subtle industrial pulses. At the time, describing it as if GAS retired off the coast of Italy and took up classical guitar. Since that time, LTS has stayed in contact with Mosconi waiting for the right album to combine efforts, enter ‘Air Sculptures.’

‘Air Sculptures’ creates space for Mosconi’s signature classical guitar work, though it remains far more shadowed than previous efforts, taking on a vaporous and elusive quality. Flow is ushered along by a strong reliance on rhythmic patterns to outline the contours of many of the songs. These are not the straight-forward beats one might find in electronic music, these fleeting stomps and flickering percussions serve as a grounding presence while still allowing a malleable freedom to exist in the overall composition. In essence, the texture of the percussion is a wonder, soft… like muted bamboo chimes clacking in the wind, coarse… like gravel falling from the hand, deep… like burying a mic a few feet below ground and pounding the earth above.

While the title and Mosconi himself suggest, ‘Air Sculptures’ has a sound that can be light, bright, and ethereal. Perhaps stemming from a need for optimism and relief in his own life. These feelings may not be immediately clear, as it requires a certain positioning of the ears to find the calm center of this rain-heavy cloud. Once you’re there, the depth and exhilaration this album provides is massive and an incredible achievement for Mosconi.

‘Air Sculptures’ melodically speaking, feels akin to the monolithic drone work of Rafael Anton Irisarri. Origamibiro also comes to mind when referencing Mosconi’s use of found rhythms, made from a multitude of dropped and collided objects. Yet the most luminous moments, ultimately belong to the classical guitar. Mosconi doles out a blend of triumph and sorrow with the strings, comparable to the likes of Western Skies Motel or Yadayn.

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released April 29, 2022

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Originally released on Lost Tribe Sound. See Catalog: losttribesound.bandcamp.com
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ALBUM OF THE WEEK - "The essence of Mosconi's immaterial sculptures is densely populated by dusty electro-acoustic frequencies, whose tremulous movements chisel a grainy and subtly restless ambience. Their suspended orbits cross a multitude of minute harmonic textures and vibrations obtained from objects, in an alternation of claustrophobic passages, luminous aerial modulations and cameos of surprising acoustic clarity." - (Translated from Italian) MUSIC WON'T SAVE YOU

"Everything feels suitably blurred to the point where its impossible to identify the individual parts and we’re left with these beautiful evocative slabs of sound design. It’s drone music, electroacoustic, and even at times sound art, as the sounds come in waves. It’s haunting and really quite beautiful." - (Bob Baker Fish) CYCLIC DEFROST

"The visionary trajectories modeled by the Venetian musician through the thoughtful dialogue of electro-acoustic textures and more or less manipulated guitar frequencies is here marked by the reverberation of tactile environmental resonances used to define atypical rhythmic patterns." - (Translated from Italian) (Peppe Trotta) ONDAROCK

"The music sucks you in like a drain does with water; full of fizzing bubbles and untenable. It's intense and deep." - (Jan Willem Broek) DE SUBJECTIVISTEN

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Total run time: 41 minutes

All songs recorded and mixed by Federico Mosconi
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Artwork, layout and design by R. Keane
© Federico Mosconi / Lost Tribe Sound LLC
℗ Settled Scores LLC (ASCAP)

"Blood" Video Credits:
Video footage by Inju Kaboom, Jonathan Gonzalez, Anna Mendes
Edit by R. Keane

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federico mosconi Italy

I hold degrees in classical guitar and in multimedia composition. My live performances range from classical to contemporary music as well as from solo recitals to orchestral works. Many years of practice with the acoustic instrument has influenced my approach to sound. I'm constantly looking for the perfect balance between purity and slight imperfection, where sound comes to life. ... more

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