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Recorded between November 2022 and May 2024 with the support of Taylor Deupree al Mastering“Songs of Beginning and Belonging” is a short collection of musical miniatures signed by Will Samson, author in stable boil between indie-folk, ambient and research.
The enchanted and full of emotion of the initial “I Will Sing Again Donin” define the prevailing mood of the album, an elegiac abandonment crossed by an emotion that is together nostalgia and amazement. The arches of Ben Cashell and Thol Mason merge to the Sassophone of Lim Orion, amplifying the emotional contribution. The impalpability of glitch of “Welcome Ella”, the dreamy post-folk of “Still Trains” and the percussion buttons of Julian Sartorius in “Loshult” draw a sound territory distant from dystopian and delusional anxieties, in search of an unspoiled island even if not necessarily happy. A corner of the world stopped over time, like the frozen water of a waterfall.
A Zen and meditative approach, therefore, but with a conspicuous dose of poetic humanity that makes “Songs of Beginning and Belonging” an album of intense and pastoral contemplation. Some compositional choices – albeit congenial to the spirit of work – are repeated trace after trace with almost mechanical continuity, specifically, pattern First lonely then gradually wrapped in electroacoustic vapors. Certainly an engaging growth which however partially loses its effectiveness by continuing to present itself in the same way. In fact – we do not know if consciously or not – the six tracks could be variations of the same musical idea which in turn originates from an undefined emotion that comes, in the final “for now”, to acquire the reassuring forms of a sophisticated dream -pop off time.
Will Samson composes a record more for himself than for a possible audience, keeping prudently distant from consumer logic and investigating a spectrum of emotions and internalized and personal suggestions.
22/04/2025
Antonio Santini for SANREMO.FM
