Pubblicato il 24 settembre, “Environ Me” è un disco ambizioso dove, tra percussioni ed elettronica, Manu Delago esplora ed integra i suoni della natura con i moderni rumori industriali, con l’obiettivo di creare musica sostenibile.
Con il suo disco Manu Delago invita ad un’avventura multisensoriale, un’esperienza intrigante che si evolve costantemente nel corso delle 12 tracce, attraverso l’elettronica e l’ambient, portando con sé un importante messaggio ambientale al suo centro.

‘Environ Me’ contiene suoni registrati direttamente dal rumore della natura, un viaggio audiovisivo accompagnato da una raccolta di filmati realizzati con maestria. Ogni traccia rappresenta anche un elemento diverso e contiene un proprio concetto ispirato e individuale, che varia dall’uso della fauna selvatica, del fuoco e dell’acqua all’acciaio artificiale, agli ingranaggi, al velcro e altro ancora.

“For many years I’ve been living between urban London and the Tyrolean Alps, and with my new project I wanted to create awareness for our immediate surroundings. I’ve had the idea for incorporating the sound of nature for a long time, but I’ve been on the road too much to properly dedicate time to it. With an emptied diary and being limited to more outdoor areas in order to record, we were given the opportunity to stop and consider the world around us. We had various adventurous recording sessions and video shoots: with 4 percussionists in a frozen lake, with 20 double bass players in a cut down forest, paragliding with organ pipes and many more. After being in isolation for so many months, the environment’s sound became more prominent in my head and I wanted to record it in a musical way and bring it onto my album but also into concert halls on tour. My previous projects were fully acoustic and included many people. On the new album our surroundings melt with the digital age and electronic music, with highest appraisal for nature. I’m hoping that this project makes humankind appreciate and protect nature more.” afferma Manu Delago.