Aix

Reissue of Ielasi’s masterpiece
After bowling over audiences with 2007’s stellar August, Giuseppe Ielasi has returned with his latest work of art, Aix. Whereas Ielasi approached his medium in August with a more traditional, linear methodology, Aix witnesses a transposition of this technique, and now Ielasi layers his sound vertically. In this sense, Aix isn’t an album about progression, but rather growth. Additionally, Ielasi restrains himself to short tracks (only one breaks four minutes), which prevents the music from becoming a wandering, pointless exercise; instead, the audience is given a snippet of how sound interacts in Ielasi’s new environment and then we’re moved right along. True to his legacy, Ielasi makes ear candy for the experimentally minded
Builds his layered, atmospheric music around rhythmic grids imposing a strong vertical development consisting of ons & offs, employing as much improvisation as Ielasi’s previous work, but in a different way