Fog has long intrigued humanity. Whether misty and fleeting or dense and persistent, fog conceals and reveals beauty or peril.

Inspired by the legendary fog of the San Francisco Bay Area, Jack Hertz commissioned a selection of artists to each create an album of ambient music inspired by and dedicated to the mysterious qualities of fog. His 2016 call led to a collection of 40 albums of approximately 30 hours of music. Among them is FOG MUSIC from Italian sonic-alchemist jarguna (Marco Billi). An album of slow-moving drones and drifts, echoes and sound-trails, lose yourself within the enveloping reflective environs of fog.

jarguna says:

I have the great joy and pride of participating in Jack Hertz's Fog Music project. Thirty-five jarguna albums have passed since the release of this one, published in 2016. What could be more fascinating than seeing a landscape wrapped in an opaque, milky texture and that imagination alone allows you to build a shape that can be beyond it. Fog is a source of inspiration for painters, photographers, poets, eclectics of various kinds and why not musicians?

White, candid, enveloping, reflective but also absorbent, disturbing, unknown, spectral, it can give a feeling of protection but also of anxiety, isolation. These are the contrasts of fog.

A cloud that has fallen to the ground and can no longer take off, a mass of cold vapor that rolls on a surface, being inside is like slipping under the covers, a cloak woven of ordeal.

Even the sound seems to undergo a mutation, muffled but at the same time present. Metallic? Rubbery? Reflective too? It seems not to know how to find a way out. The delays and echoes that repeat the same sounds for minutes make it seem as if it were bouncing off the walls of our psyche. It can happen that you pay attention to the rebounds of these sounds, but their trail is so long that sometimes even if it is no longer there you still seem to hear it. This is the effect I would like to obtain among listeners, among the many musical projects of illusion, pareidolia, this was one of the first.

Visceral synthesizers, muffled and crumpled oscillators, refer to horror movie soundtracks. Apparently minimalist, underneath there is a horde of sounds that makes you imagine some entity or beings that move and you do not understand if they have a good or bad intent. Small miners with undefined silhouettes, ready to hit you with the pickaxe or give you some gems.

At times the sound textures overlap so much that it becomes a real wall of sound until you see a light, the exit.

Have a good trip in the fog!