Gigi Masin /  Movement / Sacred Bones – By Adam Turner

Wonderful words by the ever erudite Adam Turner. Italian ambient maestro Gigi Masin hasn’t made a full-length solo album for five years. In the time since 2020’s “Calypso”, he’s undergone some life-changing events that have led him to “Movement”, a 9-track exploration of humanity and nature. Machine music with nods to techno, jazz, house and kosmische, but music that is also very emotive, empathic and organic. A set of tracks that breathe and sway, that shift and swirl, never settling for long. “Bed On Mars” opens the collection in classical ambient fashion – diffuse, ringing drones, extended notes and the hint of choral voices. The backdrop to some widescreen floating-through-space visuals. Horns appear on “Lost”, cutting through the music’s gossamer gauze quite unexpectedly. One trumpet and then another. A brass conversation going to and fro. Distant drums creeping in. “The Age Of Sampling” changes gear, introducing a breakbeat and percussion, a sustained chord and then a sampled…