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Any researcher looking to uncover an exhaustive list of international musical hotbeds, those alluring capitals for creativity and genre-bending developed by the contemporary music underground (e.g., Iceland, the UK, Finland, Sweden, Denmark) would probably find Italy ranked alongside the likes of Mongolia, Cambodia or the United Arab Emirates.  Until just recently, I doubt I could name many noteworthy Italian musicians myself, besides the glorious Goblin, or Luciano Pavarotti — and the latter only comes to mind because I regularly encounter his likeness featured proudly on a wall mural inside my local pizza place.  Goblin and Pavarotti are nothing to sneeze at, surely, but aren’t quite cutting edge.  Partly for that reason, discovering Fabio Orsi’s ambient work — and subsequently the work of Gianluca Becuzzi, Valerio Cosi, among others — has been especially delightful.  Encountering your favorite genre surprisingly well developed in yet another region overseas leads to a barrage of new discoveries.

Fabio Orsi’s Picture Myself In a Cloud (Speaking Through Thought), his first release for ruralfaune (myspace), is the latest in an accomplished catalog of finely crafted, endlessly pleasing electro-acoustic, ambient releases from the Italian musician.  Picture Myself fits snugly alongside an already impressive catalog of under-celebrated releases on the finest of micro-labels, including LVD, Digitalis, and (the apparently Italian) A Silent Place. Continue reading ‘Fabio Orsi’s ‘Picture Myself In a Cloud’ (ruralfaune 2008)’

 

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