Luminance, by Francesco Giannico

Luminance

by Francesco Giannico

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1.	01 - Further 04:43	buy track
2.	02 - Sink 03:02	buy track
3.	03 - Lacks Soul 03:38	buy track
4.	04 - Things we can not get 09:28	buy track
5.	05 - Slow Motion 03:52	buy track
6.	06 - A Quiet Dream 02:07	buy track
7.	07 - Klange von Berlin 02:07	buy track
8.	08 - Step by Step 07:32	buy track
9.	09 - Old Style 04:53	buy track
10.	10 - Run 02:00	buy track
11.	Middle Earth 04:24	buy track
12.	Suggestions 03:10	buy track

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Reviewed by Beachsloth

<<Francesco Giannico’s ‘Luminance’ is an elegant album. How it luxuriously incorporates elements of the classical with a glossy sheen is quite impressive. At times it sounds akin to Max Richter put through digital synthesis. The result is extraordinarily calming. With this digital sound (and it is quite electronic) there’s a sense of true organic wonder. ‘Luminance’ achieves this human effect by carefully filtering field recordings, guitar plucks, and other reminders that there is a world outside of it.

The album begins with ‘Further’ which sets the tone for the album as a mellow, dreamy pillow of a song. ‘Lacks soul’ is an ironic name considering how deep in the center of it is a moving piano piece clouded by so much processing. Part of the joy of the song is how Francesco appears to peel away those digital layers revealing its true heart. On ‘Things we can not get’ things take a different approach. Field recordings are effectively employed on this track, the longest on the entire album. For this album there’s a true sense of drama with an uneasy melody that wheezes by. ‘A quiet dream’ takes the formula for the album and reverses it: beginning with the natural before it submerges into the edited. The album ends on a sleepy note with the narcoleptic ‘Suggestions’.

Overall it is a lovely nebulous cloud of an album. This is the perfect soundtrack for a cloudy day. For though the sky is obscured there is beauty behind it. Thus the same is true for ‘Luminance’ and its dual digital/natural format.>>

“The memory element is always present in the music of Francesco Giannico. A type of memory that feeds on field recordings, sometimes piano parts, sometimes gentle pads and cinematic atmospheres. A sense of spirituality and melancholy at the same time fulfilling that is reverberated and extended thanks to the videoart works that Francesco Giannico Giannico himself produces.”

The same title “Luminance” means like Cohen used to say that There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in.

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released April 4, 2013

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Francesco Giannico Italy

Francesco Giannico is an italian electroacoustic composer and sound designer He deals with the concept of "soundscape" and his transformations.

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