Godblesscomputers - Solchi (2017)

Just as magnified record grooves reveal dust constellations and lunar landscapes, so too does Godblesscomputers’ third album. SOLCHI is a deep search into previous moments in Lorenzo Nada’s lifetime, influenced by the presence and power of music. His process began with the recovery of some old cassettes, mixtapes nearly forgotten, audio recording of voices from his childhood, and lots of dusty jazz, soul, and hip-hop records.

As the starting point of this travel merge with its end, past and present combine to form GBC’s current sound. Warm electronic production rooted by grooving bass lines form the core of a kaleidoscope of sixteen tracks, colored by synthesizers, guitar echoes, scratches, samples, fading voices and kalimba.

The album is a collection of sixteen stories, sixteen soundscapes; each of them GBC’s tribute to the path taken thus far, an homage to his love for music.

The recording and studio work took place over a year, with the adding and subtracting of many elements. For this project, GBC invited several musicians into his home studio, both old friends and new. They helped to recreate the sounds of the original recovered recording, as well as add fresh ideas to the project.

Lorenzo Nada is Godblesscomputers. Born in Italy in 1984, he first approached music through beat making and djing, led by an early passion for samplers and records. As an avid record collector, Godblesscomputers gathers sounds to explore, catalogue, dissect and eventually recompose them into his music. He blends a succession of living texture and impatient rhythms, pathos and silences, beats, thickening and long melancholic breathing space. Godblesscomputers began in 2011, when Lorenzo moved to Berlin. This name, at first conceived for a blog, became a signature of electronic productions stemming from the sounds and rhythms of black music, remaining rooted to the groove and warmth of his musical influences. Returning to Italy after three years abroad, Lorenzo released two LPs – Veleno (Fresh yo!, 2014) and Plush and Safe (LaTempesta International / Fresh Yo!, 2015). Solchi is his latest work.

Tracklist:

01 - Brothers
02 - How About U
03 - Just Slow Down
04 - Wherever You Say
05 - Adriatica
06 - Life on Fire
07 - El Destino (Interlude)
08 - Glue
09 - Dreamers
10 - LIP
11 - Records
12 - 1989 (Interlude)
13 - Don't Need
14 - Disquietude
15 - Father's Light
16 - Freddo