Firetail

Firetail creates an environment of ultimate wonder and deep reassurance. Drone has rarely sounded so soulful. Allowing the textures to gain melodic elements helps them to become deeper than their celestial pining would suggest. Pieces float up into the sky. With a usage of Post Rock’s quieter impulses Firetail’s efforts to merge the tender and gigantic are an overwhelming success. Opening in medias res is “Calculator”. The guitar’s work is immediate. Subtle textures of static weave in and out of the mix. Gradually the guitar descends allowing for the deep registers to give the sound a fullness that appear inescapable. Calm rules over the piece and tends to relax as the piece progress without interruption. Rather the gentle ease lets everything gain greater perspective. After all of this activity of the constant growing is the lone sound of the closer “Ajax”. With a much softer soft “Ajax” manages to conjure up images of fantastically empty spaces. Evolution of the sound allows the gu...

Per Andrea Vascellari, Firetail non è dunque un’estemporanea divagazione dalle riflessive trame di slow-core cantautorale di Lullabier: alle due tracce pubblicate lo scorso anno sotto il titolo “Learning To Cheat” seguono le altre due di circa dieci minuti di durata ciascuna di “Learning To Waltz”, pubblicate in formato digitale dalla canadese Trembl nella sua serie che unisce musica ambient e fotografia. Entrambi i brani sono infatti dotati di spiccati contenuti immaginifico-descrittivi, che li rendono perfetto complemento di immagini statiche o in lento movimento. Quelli di Firetail appaiono infatti lunghi piani sequenza prodotti da un’equilibrata interazione di aperture ambientali e iterazioni di frequenze modulate, che in “Calculator” si sviluppa come una spessa marea di riverberi concatenati, i cui contorni sottilmente distorti vengono smussati in maniera graduale come una scultura sonora che vede la luce attraverso successive sottrazioni di materiale o, meglio, di timbri. La se...

The sequel of "Learning To Cheat" is called "Learning To Waltz", and it has just been published by the Canadian label Trembl. Trembl says: Italian Firetail (also known as Lullabier) sets out for the stars in these two engaging, calming & masterful drones. Free to stream, $ 3.50 to download. Go here:  http://trembl.bandcamp.com/album/learning-to-waltz Learning to waltz by Firetail

Italian project FIRETAIL is the creative vehicle of Andrea Vascellari, which he use for crafting music rather different to what he otherwise does as Lullabier. “Learning to Cheat” is the debut EP by this project, and was released as a free download by US label Silber Records in 2013. For connoisseurs of good sound, the artist does sell higher quality versions of this EP on Bandcamp. The free version on Silber Records are limited to mp3′s of 128 Kb quality. The two tracks on this EP, one a bit less and one a bit more than 8 minutes long, are both of a fairly similar nature. Ambient, cinematic creations that invites to associations with the sea. End = Beginning builds and ends slowly, and contains a dark drone or resonance with smooth, gentle textured guitar and reverb constructions wash in lakes wave on the shore, with occasional surges soaring upwards. A pleasant and inviting construction, easy on the ears and mind both. Concluding construction Floating Around sports a sampled undercur...

Firetail’s ‘Learning to Cheat’ is an ambient record of absolute hope. Whatever the sound appears to go it remains incurably optimistic. The aural colors of these two songs are so bright it is simply amazing. Experimentation with format, taking a calmer route (for the first track) or a more aggressive approach (for the second track) makes for a unified whole. Both parts work together to complement the other. Put together the result is something to be wondered about in awe. ‘End = Beginning’ takes the mellower approach out of the two tracks. The sound is Post-Rock without the crescendo. Lingering tones make themselves more powerful without the typical release that most ambient rock outfits aim for. Firetail is confident in their ability to display wonder without the need to increase the volume or intensity. On the finale of ‘Floating Around’ Firetail uses a different approach to achieve the same means. Here the Post-Rock leanings receive large dollops of distortion. Reminiscent of shoega...

In fondo non è infrequente che tra uggiose narcolessie cantautorali e malinconici paesaggi ambientali sussista una comune empatia, quando non anche di sonorità. Eppure, non manca di destare una certa sorpresa vedere un artista transitare con nonchalance dall'uno all'altro ambito, in questo caso abbandonando momentaneamente l’ambizioso progetto slow-core minimale Lullabier per dedicarsi a brevi derive ambientali, semplicemente disegnate da riverberi di basso e chitarra. Tali sono le premesse sottostanti Firetail, afasica incarnazione di Andrea Vascellari che, deposto il pathos di scarne note acustiche e testi cantati quasi sottovoce, si lancia in un quarto d’ora di caldi flussi ambientali. “Learning To Cheat” è infatti un breve singolo digitale, ripartito in due tracce di durata quasi eguale: la prima, “End = Beginning”, segue un placido crescendo di suggestioni vaporose, che omaggiano gli Hammock o il Jon DeRosa del primo periodo di Aarktica, mentre la seconda, “Floating Arou...

Firetail is the one man project of Andrea Vascellari, who is being more known with regard to slowcore project Lullabier that has shared the stage with the likes of Rivulets, Low, Jessica Bailiff, and Boduf Songs. With Firetail he abandons a subdued, austere singer-songwriter concept, instead of it proceeding more extended sonic terrains and still life-induced progressions. Indeed, this 2-track issue is an outstanding one due to the organic bond of glacial-alike gloss, epic guitar overdrives and moody hiss washes and slow burning. The listener can feel himself/herself like standing alone on the shore at a remote distance of the civilization. Superb. http://agier.blogspot.it/2013/05/firetail-learning-to-cheat-2013.html