MOVEMENT

Following the jazzy library vibes of 2023''''s collaborative Dolphin LP with
Greg Foat and Moses Boyd, the venetian maestro Gigi Masin returns to
the ambience for which he is renowned, with Movement'his first solo
full-length since 2020''''s Calypso, and his Sacred Bones Records debut.
Fuelled by creative reinvention and rhythmic motion, he moves seamlessly between melancholy MIDI notes, technoid robotics, groovy liminal
cloudscapes, and fathoms-deep ambient aquatics.
Since early beginnings in obscurity, his 1986 debut album Wind slowly built an organic following on late night radio, later bolstered when
'Clouds" was sampled by artists like Bjork, Post Malone, and more. He
now counts Oneohtrix Point Never, Devendra Banhart, Caroline Polachek, and the late Kenny Wheeler as fans.
The new album Movement reflects on Masin''''s place within the pantheon
of ambient masters, his ongoing artistic ambitions, and his aspirations
for a scene which he''''s seen grow exponentially from humble beginnings.
The lp is also an ode to literal movement, both in nature, and in human
physical expressions to sound. Masin strived to make ambient music for
movement, not in the standard dance music sense, but 'dynamic music,
with a beating heart full of love." Reconfiguring ambient''''s association
with solitary listening and cold academia, Gigi went outwards, channeling something somatic that connects with the body, not just the mind