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Nico Georis - Cloud Suites [New Vinyl LP]

Artist: Nico Georis

Title: Cloud Suites

Format: Vinyl LP

Genre: Experimental (Noise)

UPC: 669158573622

Release Date: 2023

Record Label: Leaving Records

Album Tracks

1. Bent Violet
2. Flight
3. Cumuloids
4. Thermals
5. Soft Purple Gazers
6. Ice Crystals
7. Sundog
8. Breeze
9. Curtain of Raindrops
10. Soft Yellow Gazers
11. Daydreams

California's Nico Georis has always straddled (or, rather, negotiated) multiple dimensions. As a child, Georis flitted between the rigors of classical training and DIY experimentation-studying under a disciple of Franz Lizst (a mentorship that would enshrine the piano as his primary instrument), then squirreling away to the basement of his childhood home, strewn as it was with his father's instruments and home-audio equipment, to play and record freely. Despite his evident virtuosity as a trained pianist, Georis has, across numerous projects, stints, incarnations, and chapters, persisted in this gentle and exploratory approach to music-making. Foregoing pursuit of technical mastery and acclaim within the confines of the contemporary classical world, he has dedicated his talents to songcraft, broadly-defined - channeling unseen (or inaugurating altogether new) worlds through melody and repetition. Conceived after an isolating, five-year struggle with a severe case of Lyme disease, Cloud Suites documents Georis's initial return to experimental ambient keyboard compositions. Conceptually, there is little ambiguity here: the songs-the "suites"-are clouds, or, rather, reflections of clouds, each named after a particular formation. Track titles range from the meteorologically specific to the expressive: "Cumuloids," "Sundog," and "Soft Yellow Gazers." Georis composed the suites in real-time, peering out the windows of his Big Sur cabin-home/recording studio (dubbed The Sky Shed), responding improvisationally to render specific clouds as music-in effect to pluck them from the sky. Georis has referred to this process as a kind of musical game, and, indeed, it's end product conveys the recurring and joyful revelations of play.