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ARTIST
PASCALIS, MARTA DE
TITLE
Sky Flesh
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
LIGHT-YEARS
CATALOG #
LY 004LP
LY 004LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
12/8/2023
If there's one specific component that grounds
Sky Flesh
, it's focus. Italian musician and sound designer
Marta De Pascalis
flexed her technical muscle on 2020's
Sonus Ruinae
, layering various sounds and processes in an attempt to touch the sublime. In contrast,
Sky Flesh
is a single thought, composed using just one instrument: the Yamaha CS-60. A slimmed-down sibling to the gargantuan CS-80 -- the analog synthesizer used by
Vangelis
to create his iconic
Blade Runner
score -- the CS-60 was released in 1977, a few years before the MIDI protocol was introduced to help standardize production methods. MIDI would change the electronic music landscape completely, offering a level of control that De Pascalis consciously relinquishes, preferring to highlight expressiveness and timbre, elements more readily associated with acoustic instruments. The album arrives as much of the wider experimental scene busies itself with algorithmic composition and AI-assisted modeling; De Pascalis chooses to work instead like an organologist, harnessing the CS-60's mercurial magic to suggest deeper truths about our evolving relationship with machines. Using timbres that recall a time when electronic music still waved towards the future, De Pascalis' melodic content is rooted in early and Renaissance music, almost cleaving it from history entirely. Fittingly,
Sky Flesh
is released on acclaimed Italian composer
Caterina Barbieri
's burgeoning Light-Years label, the ideal platform for her labyrinthine, cosmic vignettes.
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