Exclusive – Italian Balearic veteran and Bjork fave Gigi Masin shares the gorgeous ‘Vahinè’
Track forms part of a six track mini LP of the same name
Gigi Masin, the veteran Italian producer who’s been making essential Balearic, techno and ambient tunes since 1986, has a new mini album Vahinè – and he’s shared the title track with us exclusively.
The track is described as “a twitchy, levitational piece of sublime deep techno”.
Masin’s music is known for pouring his heart into his music – it’s probably the reason Bjork has sampled and namechecked him – but the six track LP, out on November 11 via Language of Sound, takes on a potent new level of heavy emotion, being a tribute to his late wife who sadly passed away last year.
Masin said: “There is a Tahitian dance called ‘Aparima’. It consists of graceful, sinuous and fascinating movements, which tell you stories and legends about love or tradition. The ‘Vahinè’ are now dancing, the Tahitian females, with smiles and gestures that could be symbolic or descriptive but are always gentle, harmonious, charming. I was watching this documentary, it was almost 4 in the morning, but I couldn’t sleep; I was in front of the television for hours, my wife had passed away the day before, and I was watching hands and arms swaying.
“I told myself that maybe it’s so, at the end of the road it’s possible to realize dreams, and I’m sure that she is finally able to dance like never before, and is able to move without any impediment, with no suffering, free to make all the movements that she couldn’t make for so long, turning to me with a smile and a wink. So, in the clouds, you will discover and see an extraordinary ‘Vahinè’, because she will move and dance and smile until the end of time.”