New Dawn
Once again Daniel Vickers and Sergio Mariani_MRN cross paths in the mysterious ways of this world. New Dawn is their sonic witness of the simple journey of a simple life, in which each day from above prepares us for the next one, learning love and mercy for one another into the way of peace, the ultimate, always hoped for new dawn. The music is a sweet and nostalgic flow of guitars, musical toys, field recordings and soft synth pads, steering up upon a deep listening experience, the latent and natural emotions of our daily life.
Daniel Vickers: Acoustic guitar, synthesizer, toy musical instruments, field recordings. Sergio Mariani_MRN: Lap steel guitar. Master: Gabriel Dellarosa. Artwork: Sergio Mariani.
Tracklisting:
- New Dawn
- Quiet Till Noon
- In The Cool Of The Evening
- At Home By Night
Daniel Vickers & Sergio Mariani_MRN
Daniel Vickers is a composer, guitarist and producer originally from Gloucestershire, UK, presently residing in Seoul, South Korea. His ethereal music aims at creating a unique space for the listener to immerse, reflect and find peace. He has released numerous solo albums.
Sergio Mariani is a composer and producer originally from Argentina, residing in the USA since 1991. His music career began in 1980 Buenos Aires, Argentina, pioneering within the well populated music scene a pad for Electronic Music and Techno. He has published several solo albums as well as many collaborative albums and EPs with international artists, utilizing an array of physical and virtual instruments but mainly his lap steel guitar. His musicality pivots between the sonic ways opened by Daniel Lanois with his steel guitar and the Westerner flavors of Ry Cooder.
Reviews
Monolith Cocktail
A placeable union between the Gloucestershire bred but Seoul-based composer, guitarist, producer Daniel Vickers and Argentine but living in the USA for the past thirty-odd years composer and producer Sergio Mariani (appearing here with the attached underscore _MRN tag), the New Dawn release evokes fourth world visions of ambient America’s interior, its borderlands with Mexico and night time desert vistas.
The most subtle of mirage bendy, tremolo-like trembles and waning arching guitar, obscured field recordings, synthesized glassy gleams and undulations, and toy twinkled xylophone shape moments of time, the sense of a vague panorama and the elements. It’s like setting up a transformed sonic documentation of a quiet, unspoiled environment; the devices picking up the passing of time in a particular landscape.
There’s no getting away from the Americana campfire feels and desert mysticism contours of Ry Cooder, and yet, the tine-like picking, the sound of softened metallic textured rhythms and water carrier, jug-poured percussion denote vague Southeast Asian influences: even Japanese environment music.
Following the day, from dawn until a final night time scene back home, with the shower running in the background as mellow, melted ambience stirs up subtle collected thoughts, Vickers and Mariani describe and emote normally unrecorded daily routines and places for a peaceable, empirical Daniel Lanois-style meditation. New Dawn is a successful collaboration between two artists articulating a sense of “latent” and “natural” with adroit understatement.
Original > HERE