Alessio Ballerini - Music from The Puddle

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4...according to our Phil on Thu 07 Apr, 2011.

These things are insanely packaged but then you'd hope so for the price. The Shaula one on the label is probably the nicest thing I've ever seen. It's brilliant when there's such attention to detail with packaging. I loves it I does. This CD by Alessio is part of the puddleoid series where the CD comes with a polaroid in a translucent envelope and on the outisde of it you get a puddle which obscures the polaroid view. Looks nice and I've never heard of a label doing puddles with their releases. Nice! But that's the packaging... On the CD you get 6 tracks of field recordings, synths, piano, guitar and all kinds of business. Alessio is essentially creating a pleasing sort of ambient music with neo-classical hints and tones to it but it's made interesting by the array of field recordings used. How the instruments and field recordings are blended is superbly done. A marvelous little package if I do say so myself! I think this is gonna be a label to watch out for. Pricey but very special little things!

Our third release, and the second in the polaroid series, is by the wonderful Italian ambient/drone artist, Alessio Ballerini. For this release, Alessio has composed a perfect soundtrack for a rainy day, for the puddles that form, and for the reflected realities found within them. This lovely blend of field recordings, electronics and strings will have you leaving your umbrella at home and finding yourself drenched in the emotion of the sounds of life around you.

In an edition of only 75 copies, each of these comes with an original “puddleoid” print…some of these reflections of buildings and architextures and industrial locales are complete, some are partial, but all are magical! Each completely unique original print, along with the sleeved, 3″ mini cdr, comes in a hand lettered outer translucent envelope with hand formed puddle, a hand lettered tag, and other goodies inserted inside.

Most of these have a “clean” puddle on the envelope, but as in life, there are some dirty puddles as well, with dirt, sticks and other debris in them (see pics). If you prefer a dirty puddle on yours, please make a note with your order and I can deliver!

Please remember! The examples of this release shown on this page are not necessarily the copies you will receive!

Colin Herrick said:

Nice review of TRS 03...Alessio Ballerini's wonderfully evocative ep, 'Music From the Puddle'... at Norman Records... we still have some copies available here at Time Released Sound!!

So, what do you think? Best reviewer each month gets £10 off their next order!