Frownland

2016 still, right?


Reel to reel tapes (and possibly other media), buried in 3 places across Austria, Greece, and Italy. The result is a heavily textured, captivating dark ambient record. I believe that the tapes are manipulated, cut up, layered, etc. This album explores the finite details of tape degradation and takes the listener into some haunting and beautiful places. Understated, lonely, and sparse, but also rich and textured.

Giovanni says that "The magnetic tape is a substrate for rough, dirty and indefinite sound surfaces that evolve while time is passing, I just need to create the conditions to let it happen and to accelerate this process. It’s like a garden, where everything grows by itself and you need to make just a few things, to see what is going to happen most of the time."

What will our recordings sound like when they're heard centuries from now, if at all? Bandcamp link in photo.

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