Solo Andata, by Solo Andata

Solo Andata

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BWR One of my all time favorite ambient albums

Dotflac This album is a story of contrasts.

The side made of bleak and almost virgin field recordings shares the eponym album by Solo Andata with a warm and organic part of strings and guitars.

When the recorded sounds seem sometimes unsettling, a reassuring counterpart appears right away to balance them, driving the necessary dynamic of this intimate work.

A tale of light and darkness, a story of highs and lows, and above all an ode to decay and resurgence. Favorite track: Hydraulic Fluctuations.

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1.	Ablation 11:05	buy track
2.	Hydraulic Fluctuations 05:28	buy track
3.	Canal Rocks 04:49	buy track
4.	Beyond This Window 05:12	buy track
5.	In The Light Storming 07:01	buy track
6.	Look For Me Here 07:49	buy track
7.	Loom 06:45	buy track
8.	Woods, Flesh, Bone 13:31	buy track

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12k presents Australian duo Solo Andata along with their second album, self-titled. Translated literally from the Italian as “one way”, Solo Andata portrays the theme of a one-way journey that moves from (and represents a thread between) water and land, fluid/stasis, cold/hot. Following Solo Andata’s debut album Fyris Swan (Hefty, 2006) and their 12k inception on Live in Melbourne, Solo Andata presents us with an ambient affair, with dark drones coupled with ethereal sonic environments.

It could be said that Solo Andata is carefully sequenced to a narrative structure: beginning on boat in the cold, arctic night of “Ablation,” and then ending on foot in the hot wilderness of “Woods, Flesh, Bone.” However, concepts and narratives that seem clear to the artists are often left oblique to the listeners. This is perhaps why Solo Andata represented this narrative in a strict sense by recording what the titles literally refer to. For example, “Woods Flesh, Bone” presents us with sweltering woodlands, the sound of a fresh carcass being torn apart and the clattering of bones. The same can be said of “Hydraulic Fluctuations,” “Canal Rocks,” “Ablation” and “In the Light Storming.” These organic sources, then, help tie music and concept together.

Solo Andata utilizes very little, if any, electronic instruments. Acoustic guitar, piano, cello and the natural resonances of organic materials (usually by way of a violin bow, pluck, or home-made contraption) become their main instruments, and as their live shows often attest to, Solo Andata can turn almost any object into an instrument capable of producing beautiful, other-worldly music.

Solo Andata is being released simultaneously with Look For Me Here (12k2014), a limited edition CD-Single that contains the album mix of “Look For Me Here” as well as remixes from legendary Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto and 12k’s visionary Giuseppe Ielasi.

Solo Andata was created between Perth, Western Australia, Melbourne, Victoria and New York City.

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released September 15, 2009

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Solo Andata Melbourne, Australia

Solo Andata are Kane Ikin + Paul Fiocco.

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In The Lens

May 2016
Ritual

Mar 2011
Solo Andata

Sep 2009
Fyris Swan

Jul 2006

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