Nicola Fornasari // SUBSTANCE.IT // xu - whisper my world

Xu - Whisper my world

CD on Eilean Rec. | 150 limited edition - digisleeve / sealed & numbered.

Recorded between January and May 2017. Mixed during summer 2017 by Nicola Fornasari, except track 8 mixed by Darren Harper.

Nicola Fornasari

Music boxes, singing bowls, piano, arturia minibrute, casio toy keaboard, fx and looper pedals, monotron delay, samplr and borderland granular on ipad, custom built pure data patch, tape recorders, tape heads, contact mics, field recordings, processing.

Darren Harper

Guitar, fx pedals, mutable instruments clouds (on track 5 and 8).

Artwork by Hollie Chastain
Mastered by Mathias Van Eecloo
Inside Photography by Mathias Van Eecloo
Design by Rémi Verdier

"[...] And for an album that constantly displays and exploits the machinations used to create it, the tone of the pieces is incredibly human and fragile. Xu has created an album that is both inviting and unsettling. It’s a fun ride from beginning to end and one that reveals Fornasari as a unique voice in minimal-electronic music that’s coming into sharp focus."
Brendan Moore
on Fluid Radio
"Everything plays off a general childlike sense of wonder, allowing the songs to form organically. Nicely spacious, the whole of the tracks works together to create a unique sort of journey. [...] Xu’s “Whisper My World” truly has love for its surroundings."
beachsloth
"La mutevole fragilità e la fuggevolezza dell’ecosistema sonoro rimandano tanto a una tecnica impressionistica quanto all’equilibrio delle arti orientali..."
Raffaello Russo
on Music Won't Save You
"Ogni frammento giunge nitido, libero di espandersi fino a trovare un punto di transizione che lo leghi al successivo determinando una sequenza armonica chiara e accogliente alla quale affidare con onirico languore la propria vena sensoriale."
Peppe Trotta
on So What
"[...] it is a wonderfully understated album full of slight, gossamer melodies that elide into one another and music box percussion that winds its own idiosyncratic rhythm through the composition. Another top-notch release for Eilean Rec."
Tome to the Weather Machine

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