Carlos Giffoni // Dream Walker LP

This is a record released by Carlos Giffoni, an experimental musician born in Venezuela and living in the United States, on the French experimental label Ideologic Organ in April 2024.

Ambient noise by synth ~ 11 drone songsIs recorded.

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12" black vinyl. LP edition of 500. 

tracklist:

1. Now Dream 06:18
2. Saltos 03:51
3.Ticking Clock 03:37
4. Euphoria Part 2 02:51
5. Euphoria Part 1 01:54
6. Sleep Walker 03:42 video
7.Episode 02:21
8. One Breath 04:10
9. Lost in Descanso 03:00
10. Sunrise 02:52
11. The Hidden Path 02:22

Text excerpt by Alan Licht, New York, December 2023:

"About 20 years ago, Carlos Giffoni quickly made a name for himself both as a noise guitarist and a laptop noisician upon arriving in New York (via Florida and Venezuela). His expertly curated annual No Fun Festival, as well as his No Fun label , further solidified him as a key figure in the international noise scene. The festival's success proved the formula for experimental and improvised music fests could work with the noise underground as well, but it also capitalized on the faster rate of connections being made between geographically disparate artists as a result of the (still relatively nascent) internet. Back then Carlos would play his laptop like a pinball machine, in contrast to the static stage presence of most laptop performers, and his solo music, like many others' at that time, expressed a less dark and dour vision of the implications of harsh noise. By the close of the 2000s, he had stopped doing the festival, switched gears musically to playing the lighter No Fun Acid sets, and moved to LA.

Now he has re-emerged in a big way with Dream Walker, his first full-length since 2018's Vain (and only his second since 2010). Inspired by the masterful performances and diffusions he heard at the February 2023 GRM electronic music festival in Paris , particularly sets by old friends Lasse Marhaug, Jim O'Rourke, and Eiko Ishibashi, he began conceptualizing new music of his own in response, turning to synthesizers and other hardware to produce a work more firmly in the tradition of European electronic music than anything else he's done. Intended as a late night listen that evokes the edge of consciousness, with Carlos getting as close as possible to a trance state during the actual recording and mixing, each of the eleven tracks transition into one another rather than being standalone discrete pieces, forming two side-long suites that proceed like stages of a dream..."

Artist: Carlos Giffoni

Label: Ideologic Organ

CAT No: SOMA053lp