Dream Walker

About 20 years ago, Carlos Giffoni quickly made a name for himself both as a noise guitarist and a laptop noisician upon arriving in New York (via Florida and Venezuela). His expertly curated annual No Fun Festival, as well as his No Fun label, further solidified him as a key figure in the international noise scene. The festival's success proved the formula for experimental and improvised music fests could work with the noise underground as well, but it also capitalized on the faster rate of connections being made between geographically disparate artists as a result of the (still relatively nascent) internet. Back then Carlos would play his laptop like a pinball machine, in contrast to the static stage presence of most laptop performers, and his solo music, like many others' at that time, expressed a less dark and dour vision of the implications of harsh noise. By the close of the 2000s, he had stopped doing the festival, switched gears musically to playing the lighter No Fun Acid sets, and moved to LA.Now he has re-emerged in a big way with Dream Walker, his first full-length since 2018's Vain (and only his second since 2010). Inspired by the masterful performances and diffusions he heard at the February 2023 GRM electronic music festival in Paris, particularly sets by old friends Lasse Marhaug, Jim O'Rourke, and Eiko Ishibashi, he began conceptualizing new music of his own in response, turning to synthesizers and other hardware to produce a work more firmly in the traditi

Tracks

1~1~Now Dream
1~2~Saltos
1~3~Ticking Clock
1~4~Euphoria Part 2
1~5~Euphoria Part 1
1~6~Sleep Walker
1~7~Episode
1~8~One Breath
1~9~Lost In Descanso
1~10~Sunrise
1~11~The Hidden Path

Details

Format: Vinyl LP
Artist: Giffoni, Carlos
Release Date: 26 April 2024
Genre: Special Interest / Miscellaneous
Label: IDEOLOGIC ORGAN
Distributor: Rocket Group