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Kluisenaar - естетски дворац (2018)

 

Artist: Kluisenaar [aka Lorenzo Squilloni]
Album: естетски дворац [Aesthetic Castle]
Location: Florence, Italy
Genres: Vaporwave, Dungeon Synth
Year Released: 2018
Format(s) Released: Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, Deezer

Explanation:

Well the blog is back! Sort of. I feel like writing up a few more posts. So here we are!
Kluisenaar was a vaporwave project from Italian electronic producer Lorenzo Squilloni. Squilloni used a few different names during his active period and Kluisenaar was one of them.

He released two albums under the alias, one 'Destrutturazione di Massa' in 2017 with Pioggia d'Ambra (which I presume is pure vaporwave) and 'естетски дворац' in 2018 which purported to be a fusion of Dungeon Synth and Vapor.

Squilloni released a few other records though I don't see the point in listing them off. His most popular alias was Infector http:// which is mostly known these days for the collaboration with Electric Dreams and QuadratoX, '将来 Forest'.

I listened to it back in 2018 when it came out (I think he may have posted it on /r/vaporwave) and liked it. Re-listening again I can't see much Dungeon Synth influence at all aside from the appearance. It's still a decent vaporwave record: slow sounds, warbled vocals, down pitched beats but otherwise I don't have much to comment on.

Dungeon Synth and Vaporwave can make a good fusion and while Kluisenaar may not have perfected the sound here, he at least put together a good record. Squilloni has a bunch of other lost records stretching all the way back to 2014. They are referenced in the Wayback Machine’s preservation of his Bandcamp page. Just based on covers they appear to be Dark Ambient or actual Dungeon Synth.

Reasons for Disappearance:

I have no idea what happened to this guy. In (I wanna say) 2020 he took his Bandcamp down. No public explanation was ever given, nor have I been able to find a reason for the takedown. I got lazy here. I found that the album was still on streaming services so I foolishly saved it on Spotify so that I could re-listen at some point. Then that got taken down and I was SOL.

To date he hasn't returned to the music scene and remains a ghost. Oh well. Hopefully wherever he is, the guy is doing well.

This release was recovered by a friend of mine who managed to pull it off one of the various streaming services it was previously on.

Download: aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWdhLm56L2ZpbGUvekpBRlVTQkMjeUt0S01SdU9XLU9feWgxNDhNYURKeElMbER4aFJMa2JXT1BsQ0FkR0ZiOA==
Password: vapordungeon

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