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Il Guardiano del Faro - Oasis

Time Capsule

  • £32.38

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: TC1
Release Date: 2nd October 2020
Genre: Electronic, Pop

TRACKLISTING:
A1. Sinfonia Al Sole Che Nasce
A2. ...Miss Springtime (...Mia)
A3. Non Una Corda Al Cuore
A4. Lady Moon
A5. La Ragazza Che Amava Il Mare E Il Vento
B1. Disco Divina
B2. Oasis
B3. Immenso Mare, Immenso Amore
B4. Zenith
B5. Finale

LP FORMAT DETAILS: 180g heavy vinyl LP. Original restored artwork with gatefold sleeve. Liner notes and pictures on inner sleeve.

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Time Capsule is a new reissue label that unites the record collectors and DJs of the brilliant corners and Beauty & The Beat communities in London. For each release, Kay Suzuki works alongside one co-curator to reinstate and repackage the music they hold dear into perfectly restored historic artifacts.

For the first release, brilliant corners regular and Meda Fury signing Ryota OPP curates the reissue of Il Guardiano Del Faro’s 1978 album Oasis.

Born 1940 in Milan, Federico Monti Arduini was a child prodigy who studied piano and was already performing at concerts from the age of eight. He composed pop songs for other artists which sold millions of copies, but his own solo success came after he encountered synthesizers in the early 70s.

Viewed as a precursor of New Age sound art, Arduini was one of the first producers in Italy to use the Moog synthesizer and a meeting with Bob Moog in New York only added to this obsession.
He was also an early adopter of the tradition among electronic producers to use a moniker to disguise his identity. Il Guardiano Del
Faro (translated as “the guardian of lighthouse”) is a nod to the small Italian fishing town Porto Santo Stefano, where Arduini
created his studio in the mid-70s.

He produced a number of albums from this seaside idyl of electronic instruments and tape recorders, but Oasis stands out from the pack. Released in 1978, it became a cult classic for its experimental sounds and emotional expressions. Spiritual synth sounds cover the album in a dreamy haze, oscillating between ambient and psychedelic. Sparing deployment of the Roland rhythm box gives dance floor favourites ‘Disco Divina’ and ‘Oasis’ touches of space disco and even teases proto-house elements like the great Sun Palace.

“The passionate and dramatic sound of Il Guardiano Del Faro made me fantasise about so many romantic aspects of Italian culture. Oasis is sonically more interesting than his other albums and these exotic, eccentric rhythms sound quite familiar to the modern music fans.” Ryota OPP

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