{"title":"Carlos Giffoni","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarlos Giffoni is a Venezuelan artist based in New York City. He is known for his work with modular synthesizers and other electronic equipment, creating massive electronic pieces. Carlos has collaborated with renowned musicians such as Jim O'Rourke, Merzbow, Zbigniew Karkowski, Astro, and many others. He is also the organizer of No Fun Fest, a three-day event in Brooklyn that showcases respected sound artists from around the world. Additionally, Carlos runs No Fun Productions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSimilar Artists: Wolf Eyes, John Wiese, Burning Star Core, Kevin Drumm, Dead Machines, Jason Crumer,\nAaron Dilloway,\nHair Police,\nDaniel Menche,\nKK Null,\nJazkamer,\nAxolotl,\nMouthus,\nNate Young,\nSword Heaven,\nYellow Swans,\nLasse Marhaug,\nNautical Almanac,\nHototogisu,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlue Sabbath Black Cheer\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"dream-walker-2","title":"Dream Walker","description":"\u003cp\u003eAbout 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 tradition of European electronic music than anything else he’s done. Intended as a late night listen that evokes the edge of consciousness, with Carlos getting as close as possible to a trance state during the actual recording and mixing, each of the eleven tracks transition into one another rather than being standalone discrete pieces, forming two side-long suites that proceed like stages of a dream. Unabashedly tonal and repetitive, the glistening opener “Now Dream,” the droning “Sleep Walker,” and the closing triptych of “Lost in Descanso,” “Sunrise,” and “The Hidden Path” occupy a power electronics-ambient nexus that feels spiritually close to the Mego label. Elsewhere, “Ticking Clock” is reminiscent of Stereolab’s non-easy listening vintage electronic side, while the two-part arpeggiated “Euphoria” recalls early Oneohtrix Point Never (which Carlos released on No Fun). The contrast between “One Breath”’s crackling opening and its remarkably fluid and soaring sustained synthesized chords is a distillation of the album’s lingering tension between electronics’ ability to project mechanical rupture as well as the organic and the infinite —or “walking between dreams,” as Carlos himself puts it. Produced by Lasse Marhaug (who also mastered Carlos’ first solo album, Welcome Home, back in 2005), released by Stephen O’Malley (who I remember DJing at the No Fun fest), with cover art and photos by personal friends, Carlos considers the album a family affair. But Dream Walker most of all heralds a maturation of the artist, and stands as a record that exists out of pure desire, rather than obligation or force of habit; a statement of reconnecting with music not by merely revisiting it, but by building on what’s come before, both in his own work and in the music he loves. –Alan Licht,\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ideologic Organ","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50409739387211,"sku":"2190518","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50409739649355,"sku":"2190545","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/CARLOS_GIFFONI_-_Dream_Walker_a924434f_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726625853"},{"product_id":"evidence-4","title":"Evidence","description":"\u003cp\u003ecarlos giffoni is a venezuelan electronic musician residing in the new york city area for the past 10 plus years. it's here where giffoni established himself not only as a jammer but as a curator of contemporary out music as label head and festival director for no fun productions. giffoni uses modular synthesizers, custom-built instruments, and various modes of analog and digital synthesis to compose electronic music pieces for physical formats. he is also well-versed and respected in the international improvisational circuit. giffoni's recent work focuses on live analog synthesizer pieces in line with early cosmic electronic and techno music, while maintaining the harsher edge of his previous noise works. a perpetual believer in 'no rules' jam creation in the face of stringent genrefication, giffoni's no fun acid project puts this belief into practice on 'evidence', a two track 12\" for software recording company. 'evidence' stylistically reintegrates lessons learned with a newfound and brazen songcraft that few would expect from the tenured noise artist. the synergy of giffoni's monotone vocals with acid leads and pulsescapes suggests something strangely erotic that was hinted at on the adult life and severance records. the killer surprise on 'evidence' is laurel halo's manually mechanized piano and synth riffage on the title track. a refreshing look at experimental synth craft that is closer in nature to the explorations of ebm and industrial without relying on typical cold \/ masculine tropes, and couldn't be farther away from the overly placating and demonstrative kosmische tendencies of late. times change, disintegration is imminent, and here is the evidence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"12\"","offer_id":50470844301643,"sku":"347904","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/1953753d-1fc0-4451-aac1-5c81a275fd10_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727383992"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_7c99b604_thumbnail_4096_ef14b657-daa1-4e6e-bd53-6d434df52d7b.jpg?v=1726625824","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/carlos-giffoni.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}