Nosound
A Sense of Loss

"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.

It is an album far from the two previous ones "Sol29" and "Lightdark", both works of excellent level, an album that reflects the meeting between Giancarlo Erra (voice and guitars of Nosound) and Tim Bowness (the melodic component of No-Man) and above all reflects the maturation of the band (besides Erra, Paolo Martellacci, Alessandro Luci, Gigi Zito, Paolo Vigliarolo) during these years of activity. Far because unlike the previous ones, this album is more compact, dense, a direct bridge between music and feelings. The atmospheres are psychedelic enough, the guitar solos almost completely disappeared, the drums sometimes play an almost entirely marginal role, but the created atmospheres excellently hold their own against previous works also thanks to the inclusion of a string quartet (the Wooden Quartet, directed by Enrico Razzicchia) that supports the sound structure creating effects similar to Sigur Rós.

As mentioned in the introduction, the main theme of the album is that of detachment, detachment from love, from our affections, which can’t help but leave evident traces on our soul. These traces are intimate, belong to our heart, are blades that pierce through it, gates that close, and because of this, they are difficult to express. Erra is undoubtedly a unique composer, an excellent musician, but he is also ready to reveal his own soul and put on the record his own emotions, his own experiences, with sincere and transparent sensitivity, there is no deceit in his words, no pretense but only a lot of suffering.

Listening to this album means entering into full harmony with this suffering, with this pain, entering into harmony with our heart because we will feel those sensations so close as to almost make them ours or perhaps because they already belong to us and Nosound's music calls them back to memory. Each track creates its own world, almost a parallel universe of sensations, that envelops us completely, every note is placed there to signify something, nothing is out of place. Far-off atmospheres, sometimes magical, sometimes melancholic, suffering, hurt the soul, yet we can't stop listening to them.

Up to the final track, the long and intense "Winter Will Come", Nosound creates something hard to categorize in a single genre, that escapes trends and definitions, crosses prog, touches post-rock, the cold and sparse atmospheres of Sigur Rós and the refined and well-crafted melody of No-Man. It is an album of absolute depth and touching but difficult to grasp in all its endless facets at first listen, it requires time and certain attention to circulate, it demands a part of us, that small part of the soul we keep protected from the world.

As mentioned, the most intense point of the album is the final track, where the Nosound of previous works blend with the new style undertaken, creating something indescribable, a slight yet continuous shiver of beauty that explodes into a thunderous and gloomy guitar that accompanies Erra's voice, here almost detached, in a distant echo that softly whispers: "I'm dying in your heart the summer has gone and winter will come it arrived... and left us behind", now it is truly all over and only the sensations left by Nosound's music keep us company, our thoughts were never there, our suffering is a distant memory that gets lost in infinity...

"like thousands windows on the infinite time

in the dark sky the stars light shines

of dying and born worlds

of planets and stars

the sun on the sea

the reasons to fear

the silence that grows

the hate growing slow

the gap between us

the warmth leaving us" ("Winter Will Come" - Nosound)