Nosound on DeBaser: reviews, moods, and essential works

The Profile

Nosound is an Italian art/prog/post-rock project formed in 2002 by Giancarlo Erra in Rome. Evolving from a solo venture into a full band, Nosound is known for slow-unfolding, melancholic atmospheres and textural songwriting across albums like Sol29, Lightdark, A Sense of Loss, Afterthoughts, Scintilla, and Allow Yourself.

Led by Giancarlo Erra (voice, guitars). Reviews cite band members including Paolo Martellacci, Alessandro Luci, Gigi Zito, and Paolo Vigliarolo. Influences mentioned: Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson, Brian Eno, David Sylvian, No-Man. Tim Bowness is noted as a guest; A Sense of Loss features the Wooden Quartet (dir. Enrico Razzicchia). Publicly known: formed in 2002 in Rome, Italy; releases issued via Kscope.

Four DeBaser reviews paint Nosound as an Italian project turning melancholy into immersive, slow-unfolding soundscapes. Sol29 is hailed as hypnotic and introspective; Lightdark as womb-like clarity with elegant balance; A Sense of Loss as denser, string-laden, and emotionally direct. Influences cited include Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree, David Sylvian, Eno, and No-Man, with Tim Bowness appearances noted. Overall verdict: serene, minimal, and deeply affecting.

Notable Quotes

❝ "Sol29" sounds like the music of the pied piper could sound... Hypnotizing.

❝ Listening to "Lightdark" is returning to the womb.

❝ "A sense of Loss" is a soft and melancholic embrace of notes, cold and sharp, that don't let you think but only feel that enormous void inside us, those wounds that are born every time we separate from someone who until that moment represented everything, represented our life, lived moments, and intense moments that will never return but that we keep in our soul and have marked us forever.