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01. Caterina Barbieri - At Your Gamut
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02. Caterina Barbieri - Transfixed
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03. Caterina Barbieri - Canticle Of Cryo
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04. Caterina Barbieri - Knot Of Spirit (Synth Version)
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05. Caterina Barbieri - Broken Melody
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06. Caterina Barbieri - Life At Altitude
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07. Caterina Barbieri - Terminal Clock
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08. Caterina Barbieri - The Landscape Listens
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ARTIST
BARBIERI, CATERINA
TITLE
Spirit Exit
FORMAT
2LP
LABEL
LIGHT-YEARS
CATALOG #
LY 001LP
LY 001LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
8/12/2022
Double-LP version. The musical vortexes of
Caterina Barbieri
rewire time and space. Listening to the Italian composer and modular synth virtuoso has felt like traveling at light-speed and slow-motion all at once since 2017's breakthrough
Patterns Of Consciousness
. 2019's acclaimed
Ecstatic Computation
pushed even further with the lead single "Fantas". Far beyond any new age trope or modern synth trend, her music stands alone in its ecstatic intensity and cataclysmic emotional impact. Marking the debut album on her new label light-years, Barbieri now delivers her most profound work yet -- a journey through inner-space as vast as a universe and as intimate as a heartbeat.
Spirit Exit
is Caterina Barbieri's time machine, primarily composed with a modular synth rig she thinks of more like a mechanical fortune teller. Whereas previous releases were constructed on lengthy tours, capturing only snapshots of continually evolving works,
Spirit Exit
represents the producer's first album fully written and recorded in her home studio amidst Milan's two-month pandemic lockdown in 2020. It was during this extended isolation she found inspiration from female philosophers, mystics and poets spread across time, but united in their strength at cultivating vast internal worlds.
St. Teresa D'Avila
's foundational 16th century mystical text
The Interior Castle
, philosopher
Rosi Braidotti
's posthuman theories and the metaphysical poetry of
Emily Dickinson
act as thematic anchors throughout
Spirit Exit
.
Spirit Exit
crystallizes Barbieri's densely layered, blindingly bright synth arrangements while introducing stunning new elements that feel as if they've always belonged. Strings and guitar flawlessly thread into the composer's web of modular patches, while her revelatory singing voice often cuts right through them. Melodies remain Barbieri's great passion and obsession and on
Spirit Exit
they grow as large as planets before cracking into atoms. The sweeping "At Your Gamut" perfects the producer's dramatic, slow-burning openers, but in her first ever use of sampling, it later gets crushed, accelerated and unrecognizably transformed into the ghostly hook surging through "Terminal Clock". As the album closes on "The Landscape Listens" -- a song that approaches death with all the gentle grace of
Brian Eno
's "An Ending (Ascent)".
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