Ambient Sunday with: Ziino, oZoio, and Tommaso Vargiu x Giacomo Mureddu #Ambient #Chill #StudyBeats
Ambient Sunday is upon us again. Let’s creep quietly into the day with soft sounds from Ziino, oZoio, and Tommaso Vargiu x Giacomo Mureddu.
Ireland’s Ziino is back with Vinyl Dreams. This is a spaced and spacey bobble of a track. Synths blip around against the hiss of the air lock in this almost weightless and initially beatless track. It’s all so deliciously fragile. Beats arrive eventually, slightly apologetically and try to stay as far back as possible. It’s a winsome moment in time and all too soon gone. Should be longer. Much longer.
I’ve no idea what the deal is in the oZoio household but oZoio is a project of a Brazilian family from the south of the state of Rio de Janeiro. They say that, “together with our children, we explore our musicality looking for inspirations in ambient sounds, at home, on the streets and anywhere else that motivates us to create.” Can’t quite get my head around it. But they insist it’s true.
What is definitely true is that Waiting the Bus is a lovely and gentle downtempo track. It opens with some found sounds, bird calls and a lovely repeating keyboard riff. The beats are a bit synthetic but that doesn’t really matter as the piano takes the strain here along with the sounds of children. It’s all so delightfully domestic and homely and warm. They explain that, “it was actually born when waiting for the bus and the sound of birds gave rise to the melody that permeates the song.” Go give your loved ones a hug right now.
To Italy for today’s final track. This is a collaboration between Tommy Vargiu x Giacomo Mureddhu. Tommy Vargiu was born and raised in Cagliari, Sardinia, 28 years ago. He says, “I love my land, its perfumes, its colors, but I also love to travel and get to know new realities, new perspectives that give me the opportunity to reflect and develop new ideas.” And Giacomo Mureddu is his cousin.
The track is a surface crackle with piano rippling lightly across the top. Electronic washes come and go. Then a sax comes for that lounge feeling. Beats have a lovely lazy flow. But what really takes this track to another level is the vocal sample all the way from Manchester and the gentle burr of the voice as it remembers days gone by. Selling papers and wounded soldiers. I wouldn’t normally post stuff under 2:00 but this was too beautifully delivered not to do so. Perfectly chilled.
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