Name: Ends
Brand: Giancarlo Erra

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Bonus disc: No

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KSCOPE995

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Blue

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Format detail

180g heavyweight vinyl in single sleeve reverse-board packaging 500 only

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2019-04-12

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Signed copies: No

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Standard:20

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0802644899510

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / blue

Artist

Giancarlo Erra

Genre GB

Modern Composition

Label GB

Kscope

Kscope is a London-based label specializing in the progressive genre of current music. Launched in 2008, it is a division of Snapper Music, one of the industry's most respected and influential independent labels.

With an impressive roster of talented artists, Kscope has become synonymous with innovative and boundary-pushing music. The label prides itself on discovering and nurturing unique talents who are pushing the boundaries of what is possible within their respective genres.

From *Steven Wilson* to *Anathema*, *TesseracT* to *The Pineapple Thief*, Kscope represents some of the most exciting and critically acclaimed acts in contemporary music. With a focus on quality over quantity, each release from Kscope is carefully curated to ensure that it meets the high standards set by the label.

On his debut solo album ‘Ends’, Giancarlo Erra ably demonstrates a masterful gift for producing timelessly intimate and profoundly affecting music. Comprising a suite of eight thematically linked instrumentals, ‘Ends’ deploys sparse piano patterns, synth textures, eerily beautiful string quartet performances, and subtle electronic pulses to create a compelling whole that establishes Erra as a composer of rare sensitivity and singular purpose.

Recalling the tonal contemporary classical miniatures of Arvo Part and Max Richter, the soundtracks of Nils Frahm and Clint Mansell, and the early electronica of the likes of Roedelius and Schulze, ‘Ends’ presents a connected series of suspended sonic reveries that shift and build in unexpected and frequently heart-breaking ways.

Produced and performed by Erra- along with a Danish / Icelandic quartet comprising Elis Marteinsson (violin), Krista Sverrisdó r (violin), Nicolaj Nielsen(viola) and Quynh Lephan (cello)- some of the album’s vividly cinematic sound-scapes will be used in a forthcoming documentary lm by Australian film-maker Dion Johnson.

Freed from the constraints of writing songs and creating frameworks for his long-running post-rock collective Nosound, with ‘Ends’ Erra has delivered the purest distillation of his musical vision. In abandoning his voice, Giancarlo Erra has discovered a new one.

Ends

Music GB