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Gigi Masin is 70 and making his most courageous move yet. A trail-blazing composer and multi-instrumentalist whose sound has evolved through landscapes of ambient, jazz and electronic dance music, Masin is confounding expectations on a new album that looks back with pride and forwards with renewed purpose. “It may seem a little strange that I have made a record called Movement,” Masin says, “in the same year that I am celebrating 40 years of my debut, Wind.” But change is natural and this time, Movement is for the feet and the heart. In the end milestones are just points on the same road, even if sometimes you don’t see the junctions coming. That was certainly the case for Masin. Self-released in 1986 and given away for free, Wind was meant to be both his introduction and his farewell to music. Masin thought he’d made a jazz record, others called it ambient, but few really listened. Three years later he released Les Nouvelles Musiques De Chambre Volume 2 with This Heat’s Charles Hayward that would go on to be sampled by Björk and Nujabes, but at the time it hardly registered. No matter. Masin had moved on, working as a postal manager, living with his wife and kids and making music at the edges of the day for theatre productions and poetry readings. Then in 2014, Masin was approached out of the blue by Amsterdam-based label Music From Memory to release a compilation of his music – selections from Wind and the handful of recordings from the intervening decades that displayed the breadth of his talents, from zither and trumpet to synthesizers and radio sampling. When Masin listened back to the tapes he was surprised to hear how much his voice had changed. He has always been sensitive to the passing of time, aware of the gains and losses along the way. Talk To The Sea, as the collection was called, changed Masin’s life. Widely celebrated, his music caught a wave of renewed interest in the origins of ambient music and helped push forward the form among younger producers and musicians drawn to the spectral melancholy of his compositions – the sense of space, like an expanse of water, not cold like so much environmental music, but generous, open-hearted, unafraid of its emotions. Está atualmente em #3.886 no ranking global do BookedDJ. O booking é feito por 3D Agency.
