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While in “Rockerilla”

A stunning review written by Mirco Salvadori:

Francis Gri è quel raro musicista che riesce ad esprimere il proprio sentire mantenendo sempre alta la soglia dell’emozione in chi lo ascolta. La sua scelta nell’osservare da sempre totale libertà e indipendenza, lo colloca nell’oscuro per molti Olimpo dei puri, un luogo in realtà assai frequentato per chi di queste caratteristiche ha bisogno, lasciandosi andare in un ascolto parimenti unico e libero. Eno e Budd alle basi del suo gesto sonoro che in While assume le sembianze del diario, oggetto intimo e liberatorio, capace di tenere lontane l’ansia e l’angoscia degli accadimenti che segnano il nostro percorso, mantenedo aperta la connessione con il SOGNO.

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While in Igloo Magazine

A beautiful review of my last work written by Philippe Blanche: https://igloomag.com/reviews/francis-gri-while

Francis Gri, mastermind behind the indie label Krysalisound but also alchemist of micro-electronic thrills / ambient miniatures in minimalist mode has recently published a quite noticeable body of recordings soberly titled While. The music is clearly lodged at the confluence of ambient sweetness for lush textures and modern classicism. It carries on the path he already approached in terms of compositional technics and emotional motifs. Written as an inner soundtrack where delicately moving melodies rise from velvet-like abstract electronics. The melodic component is mostly piano/guitar centric with detached aerial repetitive notes falling like calm sparse water drops. It emotionally captures fragile introspective moments with a sense of vague reveries and grieving solemnity.
While evokes continuously serene and impressionistic sound motifs for long sustained chords, cyclical echoing minimal melodic scintillations—apparently static sound forms—but which admit a palette of nuances and acoustic colors as well. Slowly enveloping and glit-esque ambient ballads under a velveting imaginary garden of infinite quietness. This can perfectly be associated to the sorrowing neoclassical quietness of some reflective ambient works from Anthené, Peter Broderick, Hakobune, and Ghost & Tapes.