Wind
Five hundred numbered copies, never sold: the private debut that became a cult record thirty years later.
Gigi Masin, 1986
- Released
- 1986
- Recorded
- 1985-86
- Studio
- Odhecaton, Venice
- Label
- The Bear On The Moon (private pressing)
- Producer
- Gigi Masin
Masin produced it himself, with Alessandro Monti as assistant producer and the brass arranged with Marco Barel and Massimo Dona. Ermanno Velludo engineered. Masin remembers an old basement studio by a canal, where he could play while boats went past. The Korg Poly-800 is on every track, with piano, bowed bass, trumpet and tenor saxophone around it, and he first thought of the record as a very Venetian version of something vaguely jazz.
The label of the 1986 pressing read disc not for sale. Original copies now fetch four-figure prices. Masin reissued it in 2015, a 2016 Japanese CD on Suburbia added eight bonus tracks, and the Numero Group's fortieth-anniversary edition in 2026 adds five unheard pieces from the original sessions to its digital release. Rolling Stone Italia called it a splendid ambient gem, and the Biennale a unique work in ambient and experimental music.
Track listing
- Call Me4:28
- Tears Of Clown3:47
- Swallows' Tempest6:54
- Tharros2:55
- Consequences Of Goodbyes3:54
- Underwater Current4:17
- The Wind Song5:35
- Conversations (From The Milky Way)
- Celebration Of Eleven4:46
- The Sea Of Sands
Personnel
- Gigi Masin synthesizer, piano, vocals, bowed bass, violin, programming, producer
- Alessandro Monti bass, bowed bass, backing vocals, piano interior, arrangements, assistant producer
- Massimo Dona trumpet
- Marco Barel tenor saxophone
- Ermanno Velludo engineer
More from Gigi Masin
Les Nouvelles Musiques de Chambre, Volume 2 (1989), Talk to the Sea (2014)
Sources
- Gigi Masin: Wind, Discogs
- Wind, MusicBrainz
- Gigi Masin: The Bear on the Moon, Divergo, Music From Memory, Test Pressing (2013-12-08)
- Gigi Masin, come nasce un disco di culto, Rockit (2015-10-05)
- Wind 40th Anniversary Edition, Numero Group
- Tone Glow 228: Gigi Masin, Tone Glow (2026-05-31)