Firetail

Vinyl-CDs are ready to ship. They come in a handcrafted and handpainted Arigato Pak, made of durable recycled paperboard, with a little handnumbered cardboard insert. Artwork by Sebastiano Girardello. Limited edition of 24 copies.  Take yours here:  http://firetail.bandcamp.com/releases

Den Italiener Andrea Vascellari kennt man bereits durch sein Projekt LULLABIER. Aber auch mit FIRETAIL ist er schon eine Weile aktiv – und hier geht es ausschließlich um minimalistische Töne. Gitarrendrones, Experimente mit Effekten, multiple Ambientschichten – das ist die KLANGWELT, in der sich FIRETAIL bewegt, in guter Nachbarschaft zu bekannten Namen wie AARKTICA oder den großartigen STARS OF THE LID. “So Far” ist die Zusammenstellung seiner bisher veröffentlichten Singles und EPs “Learning To Cheat”, “Learning To Waltz” und “Little Droner Boy”, die auf Silber Records und Trembl erschienen sind. Mit einer limitierten Auflage handgefertigter CDrs werden damit auch die bisher rein digitalen Releases endlich auch in physischer Form gewürdigt. Der Großteil der Tracks bewegt sich in harmonischem Drone Ambient, mit einer ungemein warmen Ausstrahlung – eine leichtgewichtige Atmosphäre, die zum Träumen einlädt. Zwei Ausnahmen gibt es jedoch: Da wäre zum einen das mehr als 16-minütige S...

So Far is the first release of VeniVersus, the new-born side-label of ViVeriVive, focused on instrumental music and songs with non-Italian lyrics. It is the complete collection of Firetail singles, EPs and compilation tracks. It compiles every song released by Firetail since his birth, and includes a previously unreleased track (Narcolepsy). Ordinary MP3 can be downloaded for free from THIS LINK . High-quality lossless files and handmade Vinyl-CDs can be purchased on BANDCAMP . So Far by Firetail

Containing a single, sixteen minute track that reduces a well-known holiday favorite to a resonant blur, Firetail’s Little Droner Boy EP is easily the most accessible of the four Silber Records' 2014 Christmas releases that I’ve heard thus far. While the previous two albums in the series (Small Life Form’s Parts for Holiday Projects and Electric Bird Noise’s Birth) would be more or less unlistenable to those raised on more mainstream types of music, Firetail’s Droner Boy (the product of musician Andrea Vascellari, better known for work done under the Lullabier name) doesn’t just have a recognizable theme as its basis, but is -gasp!- actually fairly musical. Essentially what we have here is a manipulated version of the song “The Little Drummer Boy” that, instead of revolving around a rhythmic percussion parts, centers around an omnipresent, throbbing drone that’s heard throughout the piece in the background. The early minutes of “Little Droner Boy” include snippets of angelic choir ...

Our beloved Silber Records has just released a new Firetail EP called Little Droner Boy . Actually, it's just one long track, made without guitars. Free to stream, one buck to download. Brian John Mithell says: " we’re super pleased to have Firetail returning to Silber for their Christmas EP. Only one track, it’s a droning reverb soaked slab of ambient re-working “The Little Drummer Boy” called Little Droner Boy. Mesmerizing, soothing, & angst laden at the same time, is it a Christmas dream or a Christmas nightmare? Maybe a Christmas Dali film... ". Little Droner Boy by 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...