NW by TREES OF MINT

NW (North West) is the third album of Trees of Mint, a musical project by Sardinian guitarist Francesco Serra.
NW is a stripped-down composition for electric guitar and snare drums, focusing on performing practices that evoke atmospheric phenomena through the use of a reduced electroacoustic set. It is a sonic interpretation of past real-life experiences of uncontaminated places, occurring at a later time distance from them, and therefore distills all of their own physical and emotional properties.
The album consists of 5 tracks, deep and enchanting in their rich earthy evocations, shaped through balanced modulation of gestural tensions. Their sonic flow generates desolate and arduous settings, disrupted by eroded melodies and ephemeral harmonic structures, slowly expanding in the listening space until they eventually disengage and dissolve. NW condenses ideas and audio-visual suggestions gathered in the space of three years.
The sessions were recorded in December 2018, in a huge warehouse in the outskirts of Bologna. The natural acoustic properties of the location have been preserved during post production and mixing, with no manipulation or effects being applied to the original recordings.


NW (North West) è il terzo album di Trees of Mint, progetto musicale del chitarrista sardo Francesco Serra. Il lavoro nasce dall'individuazione di pratiche performative volte a evocare fenomeni atmosferici attraverso l'utilizzo di un ridotto set elettroacustico costituito prevalentemente da chitarra elettrica e rullanti. L’interpretazione sonora di luoghi incontaminati realmente visitati avviene a una distanza temporale che consente di distillarne le proprietà fisiche ed emotive. I cinque brani dell’album risultano caratterizzati da sonorità profonde, avvolgenti e ricche di suggestioni materiche, plasmate attraverso una modulazione equilibrata delle tensioni gestuali sullo strumento. Il flusso sonoro genera ambientazioni impervie e desolate squarciate da melodie erose e strutture armoniche evanescenti che si dilatano nello spazio d’ascolto fino ad astrarsi e dissolversi. In NW si sedimentano idee, suggestioni visive e sonore raccolte ed elaborate nell’arco di tre anni. Il lavoro è stato registrato a dicembre 2018 in un ampio capannone nei pressi di Bologna. Le riprese audio non sono state manipolate o effettate in fase di post-produzione in modo tale da preservare le naturali caratteristiche acustiche del luogo della performance.

Trees of Mint is Francesco Serra (Cagliari, 1980) musical project. His research is focused on performing practices aiming at extending electric guitar’s timbral characteristics and emphasizing sound’s evocative potential. He has released three albums, where songwriting has been progressively deconstructed through sonic experimentation.

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