New Releases From Midira Records

Source: Midira Records.

Open To The Sea
Another Year Is Over, Let´s Wait For Springtime

Open To The Sea is the collaboration project of Matteo Uggeri and Enrico Coniglio and “Another Year Is Over, Let´s Wait For Springtime” is their second album. While Coniglio focusses on guitar, synths and other instruments, Uggeri adds samples and field recordings to create a soundcosmos full of tiny melodies and themes with appereance by some guest musicians on drums, trumpet and cello. That would make a perfect experimental ambient album with jazzy moments, but Uggeri & Coniglio push this release further by adding some vocals to most of the tracks by inviting guest singers like Dominic Appleton (This Mortal Coil) or Lau Nau from Finland.

Transtilla II

Transtilla is Anne-Chris Bakker and Romke Kleefstra, who’ve already worked together in the trio Kleefstra|Bakker|Kleefstra. After releasing the highly acclaimed trio album “Dize” (MD 032) with spoken words by Jan Kleefstra, we added a hidden instrumental track at the end of the album, which got mastered by accident, but it sounded too good to be abandoned from “Dize”. Looking back to this, it appears to be the birth of Transtilla. Transtilla II is the culmination of floating drones, squeezing ambient noises and calm soundscapes with a violent melancholic aura, always moving slowly to a climax that crawls through the speakers like lava.

Gri | Gutman | Mosconi – Uncoded Winds Below The Waves

This collaboration by Francis Gri, David Gutman and Federico Mosconi focusses on the wind as central concept. Captured as field recordings in crete, the three musicians build a 4 track album around that theme. The result is a beautiful fragile album build with slowly moving guitar and electronic sounds accompanied by field recordings.