• GAUDI - 'Magnetic' (Test Pressing Album vinyl in 2 unique pieces only!)

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  Gaudi 2017 album 'Magnetic' original Test-Pressing, available in 4 PIECES ONLY, signed and personalized! (Brand new immaculate conditions).
  Produced and arranged by Gaudi, this album features music colossus such as:
  BILL LASWELL : Bass 
  COLIN EDWIN (of Porcupine Tree) : Bass 
  STEVE JANSEN (of Japan) : Drum 
  TED PARSONS (of Killing Joke) : Drum   
  ROGER ENO : Piano 
  JAMIE SAFT : Bass 
  ERALDO BERNOCCHI : Guitar and Baritone Guitar  
  ERIC MOUQUET aka DEEP FOREST : Grand Piano 
  TONY LEVIN (Peter Gabriel, Sting) : Bass 
  BUCKETHEAD (Guns n Roses, Iggy Pop) : Guitar 
  PAT MASTELOTTO (of King Crimson, XTC) : Drum 
  MASAMI AKITA aka MERZBOW : Electronic Noises 
  MARK AANDERUD : Piano 
  LORENZO FELICIATI : Bass 
  HERNAN HECHT : Drum 
  COPPE’ : Voice  
  ALESSANDRO GWIS : Piano 
  MARTIN SCHULTE : Electronics
  CYRO BAPTISTA : Jew’s Harp 
  NIKOLAJ BJERRE : Drum 
  SHANIR EZRA BLUMENKRANZ : Bass 
  ROBERTO GUALDI (of P.F.M) : Drum 
  JAN PETER SCHWALM : Electronics
  PIPPO DE PALMA : Guitar 
  TERJE EVENSEN : Electronic Drum 
  STEVE NORRIS : Guitar 
  MICHELE CAVALLARI : Fender Rhodes 
  EYAL MAOZ : Guitar 
  BRIAN ALLEN : Trombone 
  
  The making of Magnetic was truly a creational challenge, even for a man who has been working to dissolve musical boundaries for over 35 years. The initial idea of the project was to compose an album of entirely new music using the full palate of the RareNoise catalogue as his orchestra, then it evolved in a full spectrum artistic interaction with an array of international music colossus, some of which Gaudi has worked in past with.
  
  Best loved and noted to date for his genre blending and high quality dub-centric productions, in Magnetic, Gaudi has shown us another aspect of his musical self, other ranges in his musical landscape and he has done it with an all-star cast of supporting musicians.
  
  Alongside programming and production, Gaudi on this album returns to his roots as a pianist / keyboard and theremin player, playing here his full arsenal of vintage analogue synthesizers.
  
  Magnetic is like a tour around the other side of Gaudi, he has always had the off-beat of reggae in his step, but since his teenage years there has also been music from experimental electronica, new wave, krautrock and proto-punk flowing through his veins. Bands like Bauhaus, Tuxedomoon, Yello, Cabaret Voltaire, Devo, Killing Joke, Talkingheads and The Residents informed his early years. For those familiar with Gaudi’s work these influences can be heard in a myriad of different ways in most of his 17 albums to date, but predominantly as flavours amongst the dub. However with Magnetic he has reversed the polarity, north has become south, there is dub seasoning to be found within, but the body, tone and flavour of this album are another beast altogether. Magnetic is a contemporary tribute to the darker side of the 80’s; to psychedelic rock and an era when Sigue Sigue Sputnik dropped proto-punk on the world!
  
  It is not a departure from the Gaudi we know and love, however… Magnetic is a celebration of the bass in all its guises - there are six world class bass players featured in the album - and Gaudi’s roots as a pianist and self confessed lifelong synth junkie, come up fairly centre stage. His use throughout the album of original, modular and analogue synths, from his big guns: the ARP 2600, Fender Rhodes, Minimoog, Korg MS20 and ARP Odyssey, to the diminutive but no less iconic Casio VL Tone, to his trusty vintage tape echoes and the 24 track analogue tape machine it was recorded on, give the sound an authenticity and integrity right down from the musicians to the mechanics … Musically, this is how the guys who did it best back then are doing now.
  
  It is a journey of 8 beautiful tracks, titles inspired by classical terms (with very modern interpretation) and although I want to say it’s cinematic, it’s more complex than that (I do believe it would lend its finely crafted atmospheres well to celluloid). Magnetic has a complexity and richness that make it a meal in itself, and it almost leans towards wanting to be listened to with closed eyes. This would not do it full justice however as tempo varies from ambient soundscape to rocky uptempo with seamless bridges between.
  Magnetic is an album of polarities, spacious yet introspective, dark yet with a hint whimsy, deep and soothing yet kick-you-in-the-ass groovy in parts. It has not been written with a specific pass-time or a people in mind; it was made for the joy of music and the appreciation of great musicians. Magnetic is a pure musical expression and as a result is a true listening pleasure.
  
  Magnetic was released on the 16th June 2017 by RareNoise Records, available on a limited edition transparent vinyl LP, CD and Digital download.
  
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