GIANCARLO ERRA
Departure Tapes KSCOPE
Nosound man’s ambient meditation on the death of his father.
It’s fascinating the way in which instrumental music can evoke specific feelings and sensations despite lacking the cues and signposts of vocal/lyric-led songs. Rather than being guided by a singer, instrumental music requires the listener to bring their own interpretations and experiences to bear, which often leads to deeper, more personal connections. This is something that Italian-born, UK-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Giancarlo Erra clearly understands, with the haunting ambient suite of Departure Tapes suffused with a sense of time and place, a slow-motion film running backwards into the past. This is music to inhabit as much as to listen to.