By any measure, this is a great start for a “foray into ambient music”! We’ll be featuring ‘Alsatia & Leslie’ on a March 2024 podcast (out approximately 3.15-16.24).
Nice work, Sam!
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Brooklyn, NY based ambient-electronic composer Sam Tabasi’s second single, “Alsatia & Leslie”, is out on January 17th. The new track from the Persian-Irish artist/producer is his latest exploration in the newfound world of ambient music. His late-2023 debut single, “Grand Central”, started first as a therapeutic response to his own anxiety, and later began finding routine streams in the ambient musical sphere.
For Sam, this foray into ambient music coincides with other recent life changes. “Making ambient music has been very important to me in my sobriety,” says Sam. “It is a reflection of where my mind is at these days, and the mindfulness I’ve been implementing to keep myself away from drugs and alcohol.” Using the solitary, focused, and meditative art that is composing ambient music as a means of helping
himself, Sam in turn creates a beautiful space for mindfulness for his listeners.
With “Alsatia & Leslie”, Sam aims to create a sonic experience that mirrors being hit with a smell or sight that takes one back to an unidentifiable part of childhood. As Tabasi describes, “something way, way back that we can barely remember but can feel in our bones. We are literally frozen in time thinking about that opaque memory, and that’s just the effect I wanted this track to have on the listener.” Designed to feel like a sonic reflection of a “mid-afternoon daydream where one begins to reflect on what it felt like to be a carefree child,” the track fuses together spacious synth pads with haunting melodies played on instruments that oscillate between distant guitar sounds and modulated synthesizers. The title is a reference to Robin Williams and Joan Cusack’s characters in the 1992 film Toys… an obsession of Sam’s for years
About Sam Tabasi:
Sam Tabasi is a Persian-Irish music producer and videographer based in Brooklyn, NY. Known for his Indie-Pop releases under the alias Glassio, as well as having co-written music with artists such as Warner Case, Clubhouse, Charles Fauna and others, his new ambient-electronic project is an attempt to “find stillness in a world that is changing at breathtaking paces.”
Available January 17th @ https://open.spotify.com/album/6JWOqpDVQuZvwQoflN9Nk2
Artist: Sam Tabasi
Release: Alsatia & Leslie Single
Release Date: January 17th, 2024
Genre: Ambient, Ambient-Electronic
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