giving set

IAscoltare - giving set

The new Ascoltare single, Giving Set (Strange Lights 7”) is a very soothing pastiche of post electronica assemblage. As dreamy as any pickle, the three tracks range from detourned pipe-organ sound splashes to billiard balls rattling around inside your head, to soft edged pulses of cloudbusters. There’s nary a beat within earshot and the sonics slip around you head within like a pillowcase filled with oatmeal-warm, good smelling and a little lumpy. It’s nice to hear things heading in this direction. (The Wire) www.thewire.co.uk

Ascoltare - Giving Set part 1 and 2

Giving Set is a far more subdued affair altogether. Released as a two-part set, the first in the shape of a three-track seven inch single (Strange Lights Records), while the second is made available to download for free from the Tripel Records website reveals the extent of the atmospheric nature of Henson’s music. Deprived of beat, stripped down to the bone and left exposed, the seven glitch formations entertained over the course of the two halves of this project appear at once rawer and more organic. Evoking in part the foggy atmospherics of Fennesz, Giving Set allows for emotional moments to surface and take shape. Warped melodies wrapped in beautiful blankets of glitches and electronics, with hints of acoustic instrumentation, appear out of nowhere and develop into sumptuously colourful abstract constructions, making these two EPs Ascoltare’s most compelling work to date.

(The Milkfactory) www.themilkfactory.co.uk