A never-ending autumn, a state suspended in between the stark and bright and the cold and dark, a permanent amber moment to reflect fondly on more melancholy memories, tripped by birdsong captured in the field or a texture created in the studio.
Fabio Orsi’s Endless Autumn is an extension and a benignly deceptive mirror image of Christian Fennesz’ classic Endless Summer (2001). While Fennesz clearly references California surfer culture and its Beach Boys by naming his album after the famed documentary, he only grazes up against their good vibrations insofar as he bases his sound on manipulated guitars. Atmosphericist Orsi also indicates his link in the chain by the prominence of guitar, but a sturdy breakwater separates his rounder, shaded tones from the direct force of the waves that cracked and serrated Fennesz’ album.
Endless Autumn oozes nostalgia for place but satisfaction with time. A never-ending autumn, a state suspended in between the stark and bright and the cold and dark, a permanent amber moment to reflect fondly on more melancholy memories, tripped by birdsong captured in the field or a texture created in the studio. Endless Autumn is much more lyrical than Orsi’s usual drone work, though it is remains emphatically ambient. It surges, enclosive as the deep trough of a cresting wave, but under its canopy the horizons it opens up are boundless.
Endless Autumn is available on Backwards.
