// Spot On: Artist - SaffronKeira (Italy)

SaffronKeira is the performance name of Eugenio Caria from the island of Sardinia. He has produced a stunning debut album, A New Life, which is a split double album. Part 1 is called A New Life: Old Life and Part 2 is called A New Life: New Life. The two parts are pointed towards different parts of  the journey of life, the old part describing the wisdom that comes with old age and in the new life, how we are in the beginning, fragile and a blank canvas, ever learning about our new environment. Often beautiful, sometimes dark and moody, A New Life is a spectacular audible journey and an incredible way for SaffronKeira to step out of the darkness. A debut that is this strong is where all aspiring artists strive for.

A must buy for fans of Murcof, Max Richter, Fennesz and Arvo Part etc.

Visit Link 1: http://saffronkeira.tumblr.com/
Visit Link 2: http://denovali.com/saffronkeira/
Visit Link 3: http://denovali.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=6598
Visit Link 4: http://www.amazon.co.uk/A-New-Life-Saffronkeira/dp/B0088MJOEA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1343826443&sr=8-1

A further review will be available in a future post.

First Post // New Release from Matter

This is my first post on my first ever blog so, first of all, its great to be here! As this is my first time blogging, it may take some time to get used to all this stuff but i am hoping to keep up to date with some of the interesting releases within the experimental/minimalist/glitch genre music from around the world.

I have personally met artists such as Mise_En_Scene (Israel), Heidseck (Italy), Vainqueur , Francisco Lopez (Spain) and Retina.IT (Italy) and thus have some connections to this world and the music scene.


Now to business. My first post to FIRST-STAGE is a new release from Matter.

Fabrizio Matrone, is an electronic producer of experimental music from Italy. He has written music under the pseudonyms of Matter and Heidseck, and has released many albums under these. Some of the most notable releases as Matter have been: Scanning Memory, I Want This, Blackleg and [Vacuum].

His latest release, Solid State, has been released via kvitnu, the same label that has released such artists as Plaster and Dunaewsky69. Listening to this work can be an intriguing sonic journey through reverberation and harsh, staccato glitch electronica.

Release notes from kvitnu:
"Solid State is a daily alienation experienced as an escape in search of identity. Constant urban noise makes a bits' cacophony of the metropolis, that intersects the electricity of sound. Cement and steel buildings in right corners are deep down the underground in an asynchronous alternating geometry and they penetrate mind's distortions that are inevitably directed towards the point of no return."


Take a listen to the tracks on "link 1" below, and put your own personal views on this latest release and take a trip into the vivid mind of one of the most iconic experimental electronica producers around.

Visit link 1: http://kvitnu.com/releases/kvitnu24.html
Visit link 2: http://www.last.fm/music/Matter