Oöphoi | Tau Ceti ‎– Celestial Geometries (2001)

This is a beautiful album and the words which come to mind are glacial and cold. Evocative of lunar landscapes, interplanetary drifts, slowly turning galaxies, dark matter. Some would call this dark ambient and this is a fair description but for me it is something else, more like grey or the pale tones of a winter landscape.

As ambient albums go it is a lesson in minimalism, usually allowing single sounds to occupy the full soundspace and you can feel the atmosphere around the elements. A feeling of vast emptiness.

Oöphoi was Gianluigi Gasparetti, an ambient musician who died in 2013 and left behind many ambient recordings and collaborations including this beauty from 2001. 

Tau Ceti is Enrico Cosimi, another ambient composer who is still active to this day. The two collaborated numerous times.

It comes in two versions including Celestial Geometries 2 but for me it is the first album which creates such powerful, bleak, empty spaces which are chilling and awe inspiring to enter. 

Grazie molto, Gianluigi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%C3%B6phoi