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Gaussian Curve
Gaussian Curve
This was one of those random Pitchfork finds. With a site that reviews four albums per day, sometimes I find myself scrolling & randomly clicking and stumbling upon new music. This ambient trio's first album 2015's Clouds had a 7.9 rating- and at this point in time I was desperately looking for new avenues of music- getting bored with classic rock, jam bands, and whatever else I was listening to. This instrumental music floats you to new places. The band (consisting of Gigi Masin, Jonny Nash, and Marco Sterk) first met in Amsterdam in November of 2013 when they had an impromptu jam at Sterk's studio. The jam was promising and when independent label Music from Memory encouraged the band to record, the trio got together in March 2014 and recorded Clouds in just two days. It was a spontaneous, weekend-long exploration of shared musical passions. They were merely three new friends expressing themselves, and having huge amounts of fun in the process. The music feels like clouds floating across the sky. Clouds was followed up by The Distance in 2017. Masin's deep, emotional pianos flow into Sterk's light-touch synth with Nash's tasteful guitar lines floating above. There is no word on a third album, but if there is the band has said they would like to record somewhere new (other than Amsterdam) so the music could sound totally different. As the formula stands now: Masin’s masterly piano and synthesizer work, Nash’s blissful, meandering guitar lines, and Sterk’s synths, drum machines and production – Gaussian Curve is a band brimming with fresh ideas, and more complex musical arrangements. It’s the sound of three confident collaborators crafting magical musical moments in their own unique way. If you would like to learn more about this band here is a cool article. This is music you want to conserve.
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Gaussian Curve
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