Falsini, Franco - Cold Nose vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed)
SKU
27-VMLP 217
Totally thrilled to see this electronic classic reissued, directly from the master tapes and available for the 1st time in something like 35 years. I've owned this since it was first released, and, like other, similar (although not similar sounding) early 'electronics + rock' albums by groups like Heldon, Cluster, Harmonia, etc. it's one I've never gotten tired of. Hugely and highly recommended.
"Franco Falsini is an Italian musician and producer perhaps best known for his work with his space/prog-rock group Sensations' Fix, who released seminal albums in the 1970s. His music was primarily crafted with impressive guitar technique (proven to be way ahead of his time), various synthesizers, and unorthodox recording methods to churn out beautiful experimental psychedelic sounds. Cold Nose was his debut solo outing, originally released on Polydor in 1975 as a soundtrack to a film that has never been widely released and has only been seen by very few people. Falsini applied many experimental methods to his recording process, including a mechanism borrowed from the Bio-Electronic Meditation Society, which would monitor his brain activity in the studio. Only when his brain would produce Alpha/Theta waves would he begin to write and commit his music to tape. Composed in three suites of spiraling and kaleidoscopic proto-ambient psychedelic rock, Falsini had created a masterpiece that today stands as one of the all-time treasures of the Italian progressive music scene of the 1970s. Throughout the recording, we are treated to gentle washes of EMS and Minimoog synthesizers laced with floating guitar line melodies that break out into sky-high guitar leads. Cold Nose is a rare and gorgeous organic creation, glowing with colorful pulses and morphing algorithms.
"The label's motivation behind resurrecting the album becomes pretty clear when you hear the excerpt on their Soundcloud -- its swirling, antiquated soundscapes are a clear predecessor to the current crop of era-straddling synth experimentalists, Emeralds included."-FACT Magazine
- LabelVinyl Magic
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