Hell Yeah is proud to announce the release of Hoshi,
another exciting full-length album project that again
involves the talented Tempelhof, this time in association
with legendary Italian composer, director and musician
Gigi Masin.

Fellow Italians Luciano Ermondi and Paolo Mazzacani are
known for their hugely musical electronica and late last
year released Frozen Dancers, their most recent album
on Hell Yeah. It was a master class in spacious and
emotive sound that was a joy to get lost in.

For this next album, the pair team up with legendary
producer Gigi Masin, who played a key role in his
country's music scene from the 1970s onwards on radio,
on television and in theatre with his directorial work.
Always a fine source of inspiration for newer
generations, the likes of Bjork and To Rococo Rot have
been known to sample Masin's sumptuous sounds before
now. Together, then, Masin and Tempelhof make perfect
sense as a musical partnership as this album proves
across the course of its 10 elegant tracks.


The album is an exploration of peaceful ambient, of
organic musical textures and brain soothing
soundscapes that are as classically informed as they are
contemporarily creative. Some pieces are floating and
beat-less and suspend you right at their centre, whilst
others are driven by light dustings of percussion from
far off in the distance.

Words like water, heaven and peaceful spring to mind
when listening to this album ?' its truly evocative and
spacious, elegant and vast in its design. Like the synth
delights of Vangelis, this album spreads out in all
directions ?' sometimes synths are joined by sombre
twinkling pianos, at other times more real life found
sounds or occasionally the sound of distant, drifting
voices.

Despite the serenity of this album, it's also a piece or
work that really takes you somewhere: as such it's too
moving and emotive to be truly ambient as it retains
your attention from start to finish. Come the end you
feel like you've been meditating in your own world, free
from the distractions of life? it's that peerless
craftsmanship from Tempelhof and Gigi Masin that make
this album such a breath taking triumph.

Andrea Amaducci, as always, at the artwork controls.