since we last met

Bruno Pronsato is a "sound scientist whose work is equally playful and rigorous, Pronsato deploys a canny use of space and idiosyncratically fashioned rhythms to disorient and build suspense—like some 21st-century Miles Davis or Eric Dolphy of the laptop. Despite being a minimal-techno artist, Pronsato offers a palette that’s as full of unexpected patterns and meticulously rendered textures as a Wassily Kandinsky painting..." - Bruno Pronsato's Myspace

"Wassily Kandinsky, a Russian abstract expressionist painter and art theorist. He was an incredibly sensitive man who wrote several books on the emotional qualities of colour and shape and likened painting to composing a piece of music... his personal observations delved deep into colour psychology and the link between music and colour.
'Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.'" - quoted from here. More here.



I got Pronsato's critically acclaimed album 'Why Can't We Be Like Us' after seeing it somewhere near or in the top of RA's best albums of 2008, but couldn't get into it. I wasn't ready. But his name kept coming up, so I thought I would give him another chance. I went to his myspace page and read that his 2009 follow up album was the first release on his own label The Song Says and its a single 38 minute track, 'The Make Up The Break Up'. This is what the blurb said about it:

"Musically speaking, we are on a ride somewhere between a slithery house track and a drugged out night out in Chelsea, New York in the '60s -- and that's a good thing because we get the entirety of the ride: the ups, the downs, the clouded mentality, the broken heart and perhaps the mended one. It's happy, it's sad -- it's something that you can dance to, but most importantly, it's music that we think you can revisit for many years, as it somehow reflects us, our lives. A playful and extended journey through love and disaster, or at least the soundtrack to it."

So I eagerly got the album and put it on. I suggest you do the same. (Downloads at the bottom from now on).


Around the time of The Make up The Break Up, he discovered Benoit and Sergio, who I already tipped you off about. Pronsato "fell in love with [Sergio's] sort of classy pop sensibility" on their What I've Lost EP. He was especially inspired by the track Full Grown Man. So he released the 2 original Benoit and Sergio tracks along with 2 remixes, one by himself and the other by Insideout, as the second release on his own label.

Song02 - Benoit & Sergio "What I've Lost" by thesongsays


During their meeting Sergio and Pronsato discussed future plans to work together. So Sergio came to Berlin, where Pronsato lives, and they made a track as NDF and got legend Ricardo Villalobos to remix it. The EP was released on DFA last week.

The Villalobos remix is not my thing, but the original, Since We Last Met, definitely is. Amazing!



"One day I'll see her on the street, and we'll greet with casualness, and discuss the flow beneath the bridges, since we last met. And that'll be all."



Lastly, Bruno Pronsato recently did a podcast for RA where he recorded a minimal set in his home studio. If your into it, head over there, get the mp3 and read the little interview to get more info about what he's up to.


Fileshare
Bruno Pronsato - The Make Up The Break Up
Benoit and Sergio - What I've Lost EP
NDF - Since We Last Met EP
If you dont want the Villalobos remix get the full 11 minute version of Since We Last Met here or the 4.5 minute edit from Pitchfork