Departure Tapes LP oxblood

Oxblood coloured vinyl in gatefold sleeve

Giancarlo Erra‘s 2021 solo release Departure Tapes reflects on a difficult year, which saw the loss of his father to cancer. The albumaddresses how assisting his father through the illness healed - in a painful twist - the tumultuous relationship they had.

Giancarlo says, “Departure Tapes contains the most experimental (and perhaps darkest) material I ever wrote, without compromise or set plan. It contains all the elements of my music in a very unconscious free flow way. It‘s the first album I wrote without knowing I was writing it, intrinsically linked to one of the hardest and yet more healing parts of my life.”

Departure Tapes is an album of contemplative recordings, written while travelling between the UK and Italy. The majority of the tracks were recorded live by Erra, possessing a spontaneity which cannot be replicated.

Max Richter, Olafur Arnalds, Nils Frahm and the ambient recordings of Brian Eno may offer a reference point by which to enter Erra’s world, but the depth within these recordings is truly original.

CD/DVD in digipak. Comes with signed postcard.

The DVD-A/V includes high resolution stereo & 5.1 mix:
DVD-V: stereo 24/48 LPCM lossless mixes, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, DTS 96/24 5.1 Surround
DVD-A: 5.1 Surround 24/48 LPCM lossless mixes