Cat.#: LONTANO-S-CD01
Release date: 20/3/2019
Format: CD, Digital
“Immense spaces open up before the eyes, clouds and oxygen which simulates an almost absolute inner peace.” (OndaRock, IT, Score: 7, April 2019)
“Quietness and turmoil, light and darkness, harmonies and resonances and fine tones in a true rainbow of sensations.” (Rockerilla Magazine/Music Won't Save You, IT, April 2019)
"Fallen's new album goes beyond life which belongs us, to discover possible futures in their disarming simplicity." (IndiePerCui, IT, April 2019)
"Piano, keyboards, electronics and ambient noises give life to cinematic compositions which look, at the same time, to impressionism's noble fathers. Evocative." (Crampi2WordPress, IT, April 2019)
“Dreams and darkness are the themes of When the Light Went Out: a blanket of sound.” (A Closer Listen, US, March 2019)
“His music is good for the soul, a real sonic coffer that helps to face life itself.” (Audiofollia, IT, March 2019)
This album tries to evoke the fact that, as human beings, we’re unwilling to change.
It’s about hidden fears, scariest life events, bad dreams at night.
It’s about our human nature that, in a way or another, “force” us to run the easier way taking all the well-known routes instead of going through the most tortuous and perhaps, for this reason, more fruitful. Edgar Allan Poe once said: “The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls”.. and I completely agree with him.
The album was recorded during a good period in my life, spending my freetime reading my fav Victorian romances (Dickens above all) and playing piano.
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Lorenzo Bracaloni records ambient music under the name Fallen and folk and psychedelia as The Child of A Creek. He was born in the Italian province of Livorno in Italy’s famed Tuscany Region. It is a part of the world with centuries of history, and not surprisingly, its share of ghost stories.
In nearby Siena, the Castiglioncello del Trinoro dates back to the 12th century. Locals insist that if you walk near enough to the church – which is now largely covered in vegetation – you can hear a lullaby sung quietly. According to local history, a group of revelers were singing “Balla Candelora!” and dancing on that spot, when the floor opened and swallowed them into a pit of fire. Ever since, their ghosts have sung its lyrics repeatedly.
Bracaloni writes that his latest ambient work, When the Light Went Out, is “about hidden fears, scariest life events, bad dreams at night.
“It’s about our human nature that, in [one] way or another, forces us to run the easier way taking all the well-known routes instead of going through the most tortuous and perhaps … more fruitful,” he writes in the album’s notes.
“Edgar Allan Poe once said: ‘The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls,’ and I completely agree with him.”
Despite that back story, and the album’s title, When the Light Went Out is not a dark recording. There’s plenty of atmosphere here, but for the most part it makes for an uplifting listen. His combination of ambient and new classical styles is more tender than gothic, more meditative than chilling.
The title of the album’s major work, “Peaceful Words Mean Everything,” says a great deal about where he’s coming from.
Bracaloni is impressively prolific, having delivered 11 discs between 2005 and 2019. He tours extensively, and has performed alongside Joan as Police Woman, Julia Kent, Carla Bozulich and others.
Review by BaddPress Blog -
baddpress.blog/2019/03/12/fallen-when-the-light-went-out/
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Review by The Moderns -
themoderns.blog/2019/03/12/fallen-when-the-light-went-out/
Review by Music Won't Save You / Rockerilla n.464 (Italian-only) -
musicwontsaveyou.com/2019/04/11/fallen-when-the-light-went-out/
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Review by Ondarock (Italian-only) -
www.ondarock.it/recensioni/2019-fallen-whenthelightwentout.htm
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Review by Audiofollia (Italian-only) -
www.audiofollia.it/fallen-when-the-light-went-out-recensione.html
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Review by Indiepercui (Italian-only) -
indiepercui.altervista.org/fallen-when-the-light-went-out-rohs-records
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Review by Crampi2 (Italian-only) -
crampi2.wordpress.com/2019/04/07/fallen-when-the-light-went-out-rohs-records/
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Review by Metal Eyes (Italian-only) -
metaleyes.iyezine.com/fallen-when-the-light-went-out