Gigi Masin: Wind (40th anniversary edition, aqua vinyl) [NUMERO]

Why you'll love it

Numero's 40th anniversary edition of Wind comes on aqua vinyl. Masin first pressed it privately and sold it at a handful of concerts in Venice, and it became a cult record after Björk and Nujabes sampled it.

This edition

• 40th anniversary edition
• Aqua vinyl
• Ten tracks across two sides

About the album

Gigi Masin spent close to a decade as a late-night radio host in Venice, playing whatever he liked, before friends in theatre asked him for music. Wind, his first album, came out of that habit of listening sideways: slow piano, soft synthesizer washes and the odd voice, all drifting at the pace of a lagoon tide.

He pressed it himself in 1986 and sold copies at a few small concerts; most of the rest were lost when his house flooded. Years later the record found a second life through samplers, Björk and Nujabes among them, and Music from Memory's 2014 compilation Talk to the Sea brought Masin to a new audience. "Call Me" opens it, "The Wind Song" sits at the heart of side B, and "The Sea of Sands" lets it fade out. A record that survived a flood seems a fair candidate for the quietest corner of your shelf.

Tracklist

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Out October 30, 2026 on Numero (cat# NUM889), a reissue of the 1986 album.