Oophoi

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Oöphoi (born March 26, 1958 as Gianluigi Gasparetti in Rome , † April 12, 2013 in Terni ) was an Italian musician, producer and label owner of the ambient genre.

life and career

Gasparetti was influenced by krautrock and minimal music in his youth . From 1993 he published the partly bilingual “Deep Listening” magazine, an Italian specialist magazine for ambient music named after an album by the composer Pauline Oliveros . In 1995 he wrote the first pieces that could already be assigned to the ambient environment, which he intoned with a sampler and a synthesizer. In 1996 it was released for the first time on the Italian ambient label Hic Sunt Leones. According to Gasparetti, the pseudonym Oöphoi chosen by him stands for the world egg . In the period that followed, he continued to network within the ambience scene, including traveling extensively with Steve Roach . In 1999 he set up his own recording studio called The Kiva in a stable belonging to a country house from the 18th century near Narni , in which from then on he produced his own music as well as his musician friends. In 2002, together with Klaus Wiese , Mauro Malgrande, Lorenzo Pierobon and Enrico Cosimi, he founded the ambient supergroup Nebula, which Mathias Grassow and Geert Verbeke joined in 2003 and which released two albums before they broke up. From 2004 to 2008 he operated the Umbra label, which published the works of Gasparetti and other ambient musicians as well as acquired the rights to older albums from Klaus Wiese and republished them.

Gasparetti was married to the graphic designer Alessandra Clini, who designed many album covers for him. He died of cancer in 2013.

style

Gasparetti's calm, two-dimensional music is often referred to as a mixture of drone and ambient, sometimes also as deep space ambient . In addition to traditional synthesizers and sampling machines, Gasparetti used instruments such as singing bowls , chimes or flutes and integrated objects such as shells or stones as percussion instruments in his music.

Discography (selection)

  • 1996: Static Soundscapes: Three Lights At The End Of The World (Hic Sunt Leones)
  • 1998: The Spirals of Time (Aurora)
  • 1998: Behind The Wall Of Sleep (Due Acque)
  • 1998: Night Currents (Due Acque)
  • 1999: Wouivre (with Klaus Wiese , Aurora)
  • 1999: Upuaut (Due Acque)
  • 2000: Mare Vaporum (Due Acque)
  • 2001: Celestial Geometries (with Tau Ceti, Arya)
  • 2001: Mare Tranquillitatis (Due Acque)
  • 2001: Mare Imbrium (Due Acque)
  • 2001: Time Fragments Vol. 1 (Due Acque)
  • 2001: Time Fragments Vol. 2 (Due Acque)
  • 2001: Time Fragments Vol. 3 (Due Acque)
  • 2002: Athlit (Hypnos)
  • 2002: Bardo (Electroshock)
  • 2003: The Rustling of Leaves (Due Acque)
  • 2003: The Dreams Of Shells (Mystery Sea)
  • 2003: Subterranea (with Tau Ceti, NextEra )
  • 2004: Archaic Oceans (with Tau Ceti, Umbra)
  • 2005: The Sacred Orbit (with LEM, Umbra)
  • 2005: Hymns to a Silent Sky (NextEra)
  • 2005: I Hear The Water Dreaming (with Louisa John-Krol , Prikosnovénie)
  • 2005: Time Fragments Vol. 4 - Garden Of Earthly Delights (Umbra)
  • 2005: Time Fragments Vol. 5 - Wastelands (Umbra)
  • 2005: Time Fragments Vol. 6 - Between Nothingness And Eternity (Umbra)
  • 2006: Cherua (with Klaus Wiese, Umbra)

With Liquid Ghosts

  • 2004: La Camera Obscura (Umbra)

With nebula

  • 2002: Genesis (Stella Maris)
  • 2003: The Path Of White Clouds (Stella Maris)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b interview. In: Expose.org. Retrieved September 3, 2015 .
  2. ^ Robert Rich : Obituary. Retrieved August 31, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Interview. In: Via Magazine, January 2000. Retrieved September 4, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Short biography. In: Last.fm. Retrieved September 1, 2015 .
  5. ↑ artist profile . In: Last.fm. Retrieved September 3, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Review. In: Blog of the Hypnos label. Retrieved September 3, 2015 .
  7. ↑ artist profile . In: Exposé magazine. Retrieved September 3, 2015 .
  8. ↑ genre profile. In: Last.fm. Retrieved September 3, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Oophoi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gasparetti, Gianluigi (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian musician, producer and label owner
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH April 12th, 2013
Place of death Terni