I think this is very good sounding ambient atmospheric pop, employing bass with keys, guitar, a touch of percussion sometimes and always within a framework of wonderful spacey electronics with some etheric vocals too.
Slow and deep atmospheric sounds
The feeling is restful and calming, with very minimal vocalisms, dreamy flocks of sparkling clouds and rising rolls of solid bass notes. There is a real drum and a sequencer and a piano. At every moment the sound is rich and deep with lots of colors. Midnight Poems for Lost Seasons and Cripple Hearts was written, composed, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Lorenzo Bracaloni between September and November 2023.
I think this is very good sounding ambient atmospheric pop, employing bass with keys, guitar, a touch of percussion sometimes and always within a framework of wonderful spacey electronics with some etheric vocals too. The track lengths are not extended, 5-6 minutes is perfect for a lite downbeat playlist. The feeling stays with the slow and deep atmospheric sound, as if it were recorded in a huge cavern under a very large old cathedral on a very still night.
I love the drama of a colorful title, “Midnight in your Mouth” (2:44). There are clouds of strings moving very slowly in a huge echoey place; “Times are Changing” (5:35) suggests that there is a gentle beat in the colorful rainbow mist, and I sense that there is a girl in there vocalizing a bit, also a golden sequencer and that big drum. “We are Late Falling Stars” (5:31) makes the feeling slow down in darkness, there are little chimes and electronic wind with a real bass and keys, maybe a little guitar, and the piano brings us through to the conclusion.
The third track, “Your Bright Eyes, My Brightest Sight” (4:34) opens a floating atmosphere with a very light touch drum kit, and there is water, I can hear it, with a light touch of guitar fingers. Now I know that the vocalizing girl is back, I hear her etheric tones floating up there. This leads into an interesting transition here, things sort of hang for a moment and then fade.
Like flying in slow motion ::
Here now a vibraphone emerges, we are underwater and the feeling is like flying in slow motion, the view is tremendous. “Silent Cities, Silent Seas” (5:54), I hear subtle water noises, where the distance covered is somehow rapidly expanding as we slowly glide along. Somewhere towards the end it gets dark and the buzzing warms all of the periphery. Suddenly there is a change and things get energized, the track ends with a very upbeat sensation. Fade to dark. Sit in the dark. Something is emerging, “Home Is where Our Hearts hide” (5:16), we bring back the piano and there are slow sustained notes that suggest a floating sensation. Eventually odd things happen all within the slow cool framework, until there is a change and the ending has a gentle beat rising.
Silence. The void is dark and still. Slowly something approaches then fades then approaches, maybe it’s a spaceship, there is an ominous hum. “Lost Seasons” (6:16) has the approaching small airborne engine and some slow echoey sustained piano notes, sometimes the approaching flying thing comes and goes while the reverberating piano lingers steadily. I love the ethereal vocals that float in from up there somewhere, wait I think something seems to have emerged from the spaceship, and now the void is dark and still.
Móatún 7 is a record label, run by Futuregrapher, focusing on releasing 7” lathe cut vinyl and sometimes other formats as well. Physical copies are limited, but digital is always available. Lathe cuts are done in Iceland by vinyll.is — limited to 30 pressings for each release. CD’s, or other formats, are done in larger quantities.
Midnight Poems for Lost Seasons and Cripple Hearts is available on Móatún 7. [Bandcamp]
