ARTIST...: Gigi Masin & Charles Hayward TITLE....: Les Nouvelles Musiques De Chambre Volume 2 YEAR.....: 2017 LABEL....: Modern Classics Recordings CAT.NO...: MCR 923 GENRE....: Ambient TIME.....: 46:12 SIZE.....: 105.87 MB QUALITY..: 320kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo ENCODER..: LAME SOURCE...: WEB RLS.DATE.: 2018/08/23 WEBSITE..: https://play.google.com TRACKLIST 01) (02:55) Gigi Masin░-░Waterland 02) (05:03) Gigi Masin░-░Clouds 03) (04:01) Gigi Masin░-░La Giara Di Gesturi 04) (02:47) Gigi Masin░-░Three Bridges 05) (03:15) Gigi Masin░-░The Song Of The Masked Man 06) (01:39) Gigi Masin░-░Underwords 07) (03:22) Gigi Masin░-░First Time Ruth Saw The Sea 08) (01:52) Gigi Masin░-░Goodbye Kisses 09) (21:18) Charles Hayward░-░Thames Water Authority Following the reissue of the entire recorded output of South London-based experimental act This Heat and its successor, Camberwell Now, Modern Classics Recordings holds the lens up to a special split album created by one of the driving forces behind those groups û drummer Charles Hayward û in collaboration with Italian musician Gigi Masin, whose looping, rhythmic, electronic compositions have seen his cult following grow in his four decades as a recording artist. Originally released on BelgiumÆs Sub Rosa label in 1989, Les Nouvelles Musiques De Chambre Volume 2 is a split LP on which MasinÆs eight tracks occupy side A and Charles HaywardÆs long-form piece (at 21 minutes long), "Thames Water Authorityö, occupies side B. Geography may have separated the two artists, who each recorded their pieces in isolation from the other, but thereÆs a commonality to their approach. Previously, Masin had released the inspired 1986 album Wind, while HaywardÆs music had long been influenced by the landscape and society of London and the UK. For this album, the label challenged the two musicians to write about the waterways of their respective cities, Venice and London. For Masin, that meant describing the human interactions related to the Italian cityÆs famous landmarks. ôPlaces, faces, memoriesà thatÆs what most of the people love to find when they travel to Venice û some kind of magic thatÆs deep in the city,ö he writes in the new liner notes accompanying this new re-release. For Hayward, it meant describing the physicality of water, the ôdensities and energiesö as he puts it, and the politics of it too. Writes Hayward: ôWater was being privatized at the time, the profit margin had been factored in, cost-cutting was implicit, people were being poisoned. Water was a political thing; it still is.ö Dive in. -