{"title":"Giancarlo Erra","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"ends","title":"Ends","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn his debut solo album ‘Ends’, Giancarlo Erra ably demonstrates a masterful gift for producing timelessly intimate and profoundly affecting music. Comprising a suite of eight thematically linked instrumentals, ‘Ends’ deploys sparse piano patterns, synth textures, eerily beautiful string quartet performances, and subtle electronic pulses to create a compelling whole that establishes Erra as a composer of rare sensitivity and singular purpose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecalling the tonal contemporary classical miniatures of Arvo Part and Max Richter, the soundtracks of Nils Frahm and Clint Mansell, and the early electronica of the likes of Roedelius and Schulze, ‘Ends’ presents a connected series of suspended sonic reveries that shift and build in unexpected and frequently heart-breaking ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProduced and performed by Erra- along with a Danish \/ Icelandic quartet comprising Elis Marteinsson (violin), Krista Sverrisdó r (violin), Nicolaj Nielsen(viola) and Quynh Lephan (cello)- some of the album’s vividly cinematic sound-scapes will be used in a forthcoming documentary lm by Australian film-maker Dion Johnson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFreed from the constraints of writing songs and creating frameworks for his long-running post-rock collective Nosound, with ‘Ends’ Erra has delivered the purest distillation of his musical vision. In abandoning his voice, Giancarlo Erra has discovered a new one.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kscope","offers":[{"title":"Blue | LP","offer_id":50472245625163,"sku":"1060909","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2db26935-40f4-4a2b-b226-570e0a153e1b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727420663"},{"product_id":"departure-tapes","title":"Departure Tapes","description":"\u003cp\u003eUK based Italian composer, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist \u003cstrong\u003eGiancarlo Erra\u003c\/strong\u003e started his career in 2005 with one man studio project \u003cem\u003eNosound\u003c\/em\u003e. In 2008, Erra signed with Kscope and released a string of albums under the Nosound banner before recording the first album under his own name, \u003cem\u003eEnds I-VII\u003c\/em\u003e, in 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe now returns with a new album \u003cem\u003eDeparture Tapes\u003c\/em\u003e, reflecting what has been a difficult year with the loss of his father to cancer. In Giancarlo's own words, \"The end result is the most experimental (and darkest at times) material I ever wrote, without compromise or set plan. It contains all the elements of my music in a very unconscious free flow way. It's the first album I wrote without knowing I was writing it, intrinsically linked to one of the hardest and yet more healing parts of my life.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDeparture Tapes\u003c\/em\u003e is an album of contemplative recordings, written while traveling between the UK and Italy. The majority of these tracks have been recorded live by Erra, so for the most part they are totally unique and hold a sincerity which cannot be replicated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMax Richter\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eOlafur Arnalds\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eNils Frahm\u003c\/strong\u003e, and the more electronic\/ambient recordings of \u003cstrong\u003eBrian Eno\u003c\/strong\u003e may offer a reference point by which to enter Erra's world, but the depth within these recordings is truly original.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kscope","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50474990764363,"sku":"1125226","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50474991354187,"sku":"1125227","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/542f8866-82c0-4bbd-9631-8fdd6e0d2610_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727440940"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/giancarlo-erra.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}