sfp06 HALO XVI “The Sixteenth Hour”

Cover image: oil on canvas by Marina Mazzega, digital artwork by Mauro Favaron
(printable PDF-version included with the complete release)

audio preview (medium quality):
[audio:http://stream.softphase.org/sfp06/halo_xvi-01-soft_g-skin-stream.mp3,http://stream.softphase.org/sfp06/halo_xvi-02-maximizing_the_intro-stream.mp3,http://stream.softphase.org/sfp06/halo_xvi-03-the_year_of_the_quiet_sun-stream.mp3,http://stream.softphase.org/sfp06/halo_xvi-04-what_remains_of_a_breath-stream.mp3,http://stream.softphase.org/sfp06/halo_xvi-05-apollo-stream.mp3,http://stream.softphase.org/sfp06/halo_xvi-06-another_way-stream.mp3,http://stream.softphase.org/sfp06/halo_xvi-07-a_night_in_the_city-stream.mp3,http://stream.softphase.org/sfp06/halo_xvi-08-moon-stream.mp3,http://stream.softphase.org/sfp06/halo_xvi-09-the_voice_of_the_angel-stream.mp3,http://stream.softphase.org/sfp06/halo_xvi-10-atlantean-stream.mp3|titles=Soft G-Skin,Maximizing the intro,The year of the quiet sun,What remains of a breath,Apollo,Another way,A night in the city,Moon,The voice of the angel,Atlantean|artists=Halo XVI,Halo XVI,Halo XVI,Halo XVI,Halo XVI,Halo XVI,Halo XVI,Halo XVI,Halo XVI,Halo XVI]

HALO XVI is the project of italian musician Gianpaolo Diacci,
who’s been playing bass, among other instruments in several bands over the years.
For the album “The Sixteenth Hour” he is accompanied with Giorgio Ricci and
Massimo Berizzi. Together, they have created an ambient album that’s full of misty
atmospheric soundscapes, fused together with guitars and something that’s not often
heard in context of electronic music, the trumpet. A word from the artist himself:

“The Sixteenth Hour is indeed a weird title for a record, given that there are little
or no connections with the band’s name. It has it’s roots in not so distant time,
when the sixteenth hour was the hour in which a lot of things, real and fantastic,
were accomplished. It was the magic time of the day, a new beginning, the end
of the daily routine and the start of lucid dreaming. The atmosphere and the
soundscapes we tried to summone on the EP come directly from that time.
We tried to obtain all this by the means of an array of modern electronics, electric
vibrations from some bass and guitar, and, most of all, the breathe of a trumpet.”
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download the invidual tracks (high quality MP3):
01 “Soft G-Skin” [download] [mirror] [archive.org]
02 “Maximizing the intro” [download] [mirror] [archive.org]
03 “The year of the quiet sun” [download] [mirror] [archive.org]
04 “What remains of a breath” [download] [mirror] [archive.org]
05 “Apollo” [download] [mirror] [archive.org]
06 “Another way” [download] [mirror] [archive.org]
07 “A night in the city” [download] [mirror] [archive.org]
08 “Moon” [download] [mirror] [archive.org]
09 “The voice of the angel” [download] [mirror] [archive.org]
10 “Atlantean” [download] [mirror] [archive.org]

Download the complete release in MP3 format, 94 MB zip file from:
[main site] [mirror] [archive.org]

Download the complete release in FLAC format, 285 MB zip file from:
[main site] [mirror] [archive.org]

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