An ambient legend who strays from the sphere.
Gigi Masin is the master of the sphere. In the 1980s, his debut album Wind marked a milestone in ambient music. The Venetian then combined melancholy and kitsch to create a touching plea for great feelings. On MOVEMENT it only takes the opener “Bed On Mars” long, an impenetrable surface through which echoes of a saxophone roll until the wind instrument enters the stage in this worldly sense: “Lost” reveals Masin’s feeling for combining electronic and analogue sound generators, downtempo tropes with a Balearic feel.
Even 40 years later he makes music in the eternal, rich blue – which doesn’t mean that there are no artistic developments and new approaches: “The Age Of Sampling” combines a crystalline, decelerated brain dance beat with the omnipresent brass and creates an unexpectedly dark atmosphere, while the title track renounces everything earthly.
“Deception Dance”in which everything really communicates with each other, could be one of Biosphere’s more recent great achievements – further proof that Masin has long since overcome the boundaries of the sphere.
