Lac Observation – Gravity Whispers – CS

Track Listing

1. The Stars Above Mount Change 02:26
2. A Panpsychic History
3. Looom
4. Stormy Coast of Tibet
5. Angel Ore
6. Mystery (Lady Queen Paradise Cover)
7. The Silver Globe/Camera

Notes

Unplug me so I can stop listening to Lac Observation’s new album and move on to something else. I can’t take it off the headphones, I can’t and I don’t want to. I had been waiting for this album for 4.54 billion years, since the contraction of a nebula of interstellar dust gave rise to a protoplanetary disk with the Sun at its center and the planets forming by accretion of material, orbiting around it.

It was around this time that Lac Observation must have witnessed the formation of the Moon, probably due to a giant impact between the Earth and a forming planetoid. The Earth progressively cooled and acquired a solid crust in which the first continents and the first songs contained in Gravity Whispers took shape.

A continuous shower of meteorites and ice comets supplied the Earth with an enormous quantity of water which created the oceans, volcanic activity and water vapor created a primitive atmosphere, initially devoid of oxygen, Lac Observation provided the soundtrack for all this. I would like this record to last four and a half billion years.

released December 15, 2024

Album credits

All songs written by Gianlorenzo Nardi, except “The Stars Above Mount Change”, written by Gianlorenzo Nardi and Lucia Sole, and “Mystery”, written by Lady Queen Paradise. Ambient sections by Gildas Bouchaud.

Music recorded at home in the Spring of 2024 by Gildas Bouchaud and Gianlorenzo Nardi. Produced and mixed by Gildas Bouchaud.

G.N.: vocals, guitars, keyboard, chord organ, saxophone, dried chickpeas, oil tank, feedback, banjo, trombone, flute, bass (A4), noise
Gildas Bouchaud: bass, tapes, delay, percussion, bowed banjo, chord organ, pure data, no-input mixing board
Lucia Sole: vocals (A1), chord organ (B1)

Hvergelmir Records
Almost Halloween Time Records

Cover art: Luigi Falagario