The Italian Gai Barone is a man who played electronic music long game and played it faultlessly. Turning it into something approaching an art form, brick-by-brick, track-by-track, he built a discography every bit as imaginative, as it is admired. Placing the music ahead of the DJ or the persona, he bided his album time, waiting for the perfect career point to deliver a comparably matchless first long-player.
On the 29th of Feb, that countdown reaches zero... The virtuoso will pull back the curtain on 12 months of tireless studio work, with 15 tracks that encompass his first album-long body of work.
As it approaches its milestone 100th single release, Germanys Afterglow Records are delighted and proud to bring you this as-eclectic-as-it-is electric debutante. An extraordinary (in the truest sense of the word) outing, it is as far removed from the musically routine as it’s possible to envision.
Sand-like, it shifts across musical borders, passaging at will between the beat and the beat-free, the cool and the intense, the instrumental and the vocal. Lying, as he has, under the populist radar for a half-decade or more, many have tried to put a name to what Gai does. All have failed. So put away your classification books, cast aside those cookie cutters and close that electronic music atlas up tight!
