Into the Northsea

A 12 track album (51m 16s) — released February 23rd 2015 on Psychonavigation

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The classic debut album from Waves on Canvas get's a well deserved Re-Release for 2015.

The brainchild of Italian composer Stefano Guzzetti. Following the much praised 7" vinyl single Angel (Vocals by Louise Rutkowski ofThis Mortal Coil & artwork by Vaughan Oliver) the artist has decided to work with many other well respected vocalists for his debut album Into The Northsea. On the album Guzzetti also handpicked two of his own personal heroes Ian Masters (Pale Saints / 4AD) & Pieter Nooten (Xymox / Michael Brook / 4AD). Guzetti was born in 1972 in Cagliari, the capital city of Sardinia, an island of the Mediterranean sea. At the age of 9 he fell in love with Bach's organ works and decided to take organ lessons. After receiving a computer as a gift, Stefano, inspired by Kraftwerk,began programming sounds and noises. His love affair with electronica began.Then in his teenage years, musical influences like the sound of the electric bass along with the music of Joy Division, The Cure, Siouxsie & the Banshees, and a lot of4AD artists would also inform his own future musical endeavours. Always prolific and on the search for innovative ways to create new and interesting sounds, Guzetti admits "I never stopped programming and tweaking synths and samplers. I'm currently studying the 'Electronic Music' course held at the Music Conservatory of my town. I love using notes, noises, frequencies, and everything that can be put on a grid or a score and sounds good to me. This is how I feel music. I also love being in harmony with everything around me. Just living every moment of my days. This is how I live life".

Into The Northsea is a rather impressive debut, served by refined orchestrations, production and songwriting, which deserves to appreciated for just that. - See more at: http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/st/2012/08/waves-on-canvas-into-the-northsea-psychonavigation-records/#sthash.RM0OwaH9.dpuf - Editor The Milk Factory

Into The Northsea is a colorful, rhythmically orientated dream pop ambient album which features a nice combination of micro-sounds, immediately recognizable melodies which positively embrace the essence of soothing mellow electronic music. A pleasant listening, quite charming and accessible to all. - Philippe Blache Igloomag.com

This could be Ulrich Schnauss and the sound of shoegaze electronica. - Mark Carry Fracturedair.com

Into The Northsea is not trapped in any particular era; this is not a nostalgic work in that sense, and several of the tracks here feel timeless. It’s an album that will attract the attention of 4AD fanboys, but it should appeal to a much wider audience; an encounter with Waves On Canvas won’t end in tears. - Jeremy Bye acloserlisten.com

Guzzetti shows an admirable amount of skills, from classic piano themes to more experimental, electronic instrumentation. - Natalie Howard Mvremix.com

Waves on Canvas achieve something admirable on ‘Into the Northsea’: a stylistically varied piece of work that is emotionally consistent. - Editor Beachsloth

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