Here's my new album "The World Outside" I wrote, composed, arranged, performed, recorded, mixed and mastered in Winter 2019 with piano, electric piano, guitars, synthesizers and field recordings.

The album was released by Organic Industries (Germany) on February 28th in an amazing edition of 50 cd boxes:
organic-industries.bandcamp.com/album/the-world-outside-oi023

HOW “The World Outside” WAS CONCEIVED AND RECORDED Laptop’s were all off. Mobiles were all off. Tv and radio were off all day long, but curtains were all open allowing to light to get in. I spent the entire week closed down a mountain home, composing and recording more than 1 piece per day without interacting together with the world outside the door (doing the same indoor as well) in any possible way, thinking to my childhoood, thinking to my teenage time, thinking to the man I am, to who and what I became in the last few years. A suggested experience for everyone, especially if you need to relax and free your mind from modern living. We simply cannot hide from the cruel world we live in, but we can surely find a temporary shelter where our hearts and minds are able to find real home.

-REVIEWS UP TO MAY 2020-

Sequenzerwelten (GER), Review by Uwe Saße, May 2020. "The anticipation for this album, which I mentioned when I discussed the -When The Light Went Out album- was absolutely worth it. It's about a break from modern life closed down in a mountain house. Each day a song was composed in which Lorenzo had time to "go deep". This experience was wonderfully implemented musically speaking. This music here gives to the listener a lot of leeway to organize thoughts and feelings and it makes think, at the same time, about feelings of wellbeing. There are sounds you need to regain your balance from time to time. -The World Outside- is one of the albums that should not be missed in any electronic music collection and is therefore highly recommended." www.sequenzerwelten.de/fallen_main.html

Drifting Almost Falling (UK), May 2020: "The first of two releases by Lorenzo Bracaloni aka Fallen came out in February on Organic Industries. Each release Bracaloni does is autobiographical in some way. They are either inspired by events, stories or personal experiences. He internalises these experiences or emotions and then filters them musically outwards. While still having some of the more gritty/noisier soundscapes that appeared on albums like “ást” and “Tout est Silencieux” the pieces on “The World Outside” (with the exception of “The World Outside” and “6:30 AM”) have more of an ambient core and sound like the most vibrant works I have heard of his. I am not sure if musically I am getting the concept behind the album as the pieces aren’t obvious in their hint of memory, sadness or joy, but what I do get is the constant evolving of Bracaloni’s music and the opening of different styles (especially more synth/electronic ones) that he employs on this release." driftingalmostfalling.wordpress.com/2020/05/22/the-catch-up/

SoWhat (IT), Review by Peppe Trotta, April 2020: "Perceiving the breath of the environment in which you are immersed, feeling it as a reverberation of your own being and translating it into sound to be shared as testimony of a successful, fruitful symbiosis. Disconnected from real and virtual sociality, isolated in a personal mountain oasis, Lorenzo Bracaloni, in his new album as Fallen, draws an intimate journey in search of self-awareness and in search of a balance with surrounding world. Rarefied synthetic vapors, ambience resonances and acoustic textures come together to overlap, generating evocative sonic traces which return to the sensorial universe absorbed by the musician, during this winter week of solitary meditation. With fluid motion we go through scenarios dominated by misty morning frequencies ("6:30 am") and nostalgic escapes towards distant horizons in time ("Remembrances"), grainy views dotted with crystalline harmonic stems ("Blurry Hopes") and airy pervaded territories from comforting natural echoes ("Mountain Home"), atmospheric sequences of emotional landscapes shaped with a careful and measured touch. A cinematic sound journey for an uncontaminated world in which to reflect, as a mirror, to re-find an increasingly fragile and disrupted human dimension." sowhatmusica.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/fallen-the-world-outside/?fbclid=IwAR26iD-2knBsCuHKe0eRCnUKlGhkv8gpVY4YqGtSEDZhNmbxDmsBekeTSrY

L'Ulcera del Sig. Wilson (IT), Review by Francesco Lenzi, April 2020: "The artist behind the monicker Fallen is tireless: not much time has passed since his last work and here he comes with an another one, entitled "The world Outside" released by the german label Organic Industries. Musician's prolificy goes hand in hand with the quality that remains intact. "The World Outside" is an instrumental ambient record, which was deliberately recorded in isolation from the world during a "sabbatical" week, in which the author rethought to some significant steps in his life. The album opens with "6:30", which is the exact photograph of what the title suggests: a melancholy piece, certainly conceived and recorded early in the morning. The feeling is precisely that of a night running away, not without sadness, not without regret. "Remembrances" continues on the thread of memories but the existential spleen of the previous piece leaves place for relaxing glimmers of light, although still covered by a reflective veil. "The World Outside" is another truthful picture, as an observation of the world closed out ignored, however, it could rather be an internal investigation just as the world outside goes on and on inexorably. Synth's melody is attractive here, sharp but catchy, on which well-dosed piano layers overlap. It's incredible how such music, starting from the titles themselves, is perfect for evoking images; this is also in the case of “Blurry Hopes”, a sort of rarefied dream with outlines deliberately blurred and suspended in time, where keyboards make up a sort of dark music box, with long and brooding tolls. "Mountain Home" is a more spacious and broad track, whose airy and spring-like characteristics flow quickly. With the track called "Waiting" we return to more mysterious and dilated atmospheres, not lacking in that reflective attitude characteristic of the whole collection: strongly nocturnal, almost the soundtrack of an imaginary film. A bit of melancholy backs with "To an Old Friend", although it's revisited on more melodic and singable tones, while the synth evokes the memory of distant summers. Last album track is "Postcards from Nowhere", which is a densely dark ending that leaves no room for misunderstanding. It is an inner journey that touches very personal emotional strings. An excellent album that confirms the validity of Fallen. It seems that the creativity of its author has no limits churning out, at every passing year, an album more beautiful than the previous one. This is 1st class Ambient that could be appreciated not only by lovers of the genre but also by a wider audience, accustomed by instrumentals composed with elegance." https://www.lulceradelsignorwilson.it/index.php/it/la-rivista/recensioni/165-the-world-outside-fallen 

Music Won't Save You (IT), Review by Raffaello Russo, March 2020: "Lorenzo Bracaloni's ambient path under the monicker of Fallen continues with unconventional trajectories, initially dotted with field recordings and developed fragile piano harmonies, according to a greater complexity of elements, which however goes hand in hand with an instinctive approach and full identification with his own music production. This is precisely what served as a premise to the pieces of "The World Outside", created over the course of a week of self-imposed isolation, in contact with nature, closed in a mountain context. During this period, the eight pieces took shape in which the uncontaminated creative vein of the tuscan artist is well perceived with determination, translated into harmonic embroidery entrusted for electric piano, framed by field recordings and soft reverberations or suspended resonant synthetic layers, but also equipped of dynamic elements conveyed by electronics. All the elements reflect not only the natural environment in which "The World Outside" was conceived, but also the human and inner itinerary sought by Bracaloni from the comparison with himself, stripped of technological superstructures. For those who already followed the folk-based project under the monicker of The Child Of A Creek, this work seems to be the ideal sequel of "Find A Shelter Along The Path", aphasic but no less expressive and certainly related to his current personal awareness and creative, playfully stretched towards an ambient music full of spiritual naturalism." musicwontsaveyou.com/2020/03/12/fallen-the-world-outside/

Blow Up Magazine (IT), Review by Gino Dal Soler, SCORE: 7, March 2020: "To record this new album during the winter of 2019, Lorenzo Bracaloni-Fallen has retired from the world: laptops, tv and telephone were off all the time, but curtains were open to let in the light, as well as the flares and the mountain darkness, without interacting directly with the outside world, rather letting it to surface into his thoughts, questioning about his childhood, about his adolescence, up to the man he has become. A very suggestive experience, which Fallen tries to translate, as usual, in his ambient music here more evocative than ever. In the company of his piano, guitars and his synths, creating this time eight opalescent tracks, sometimes deceptive sometimes really suggestive, which seems to tell us that if we cannot evade the cruel world that is out there, we can, however, carve out a refuge as insecure as it may be, where to relax body and mind. That's what basically the here pieces do, like The World Outside, Blurry Hopes, Mountain Home, the long and shining Waiting and Postcards from Nowhere. The latter title closes a ladder that takes you back us the days of "Hearts of Space", years ago."

Crampi2Wordpress (IT), Review by Marcello Berlich, March 2020: "Prolific multi-instrumentalist (an average of two jobs a year) Fallen opens the new year with eight compositions which, while evoking 'the world outside', are the result of an extremely intimate process: a week spent in a mountain house, with no external contacts, real and virtual, both reduced to the bare minimum. Moreover, it's not a real news about him: the composer prefers moments of solitude, isolation, silence, which offer space and time for reflection and contact with emotions. Self-isolation, this time, has led us to look back from childhood to adulthood, in a process that (in the words of the author), allows heart and soul to find a real home, even if only in a few of moments, becoming impossible to hide and isolate from the cruel reality. Synthesizers, piano and electric piano, guitars, weave evanescent textures as usual elements of Fallen's production, standing out against the background of carpets and of liquid and dilated sound effects. Ambience, sidereal suggestions, cinematic impressions (with some references to Vangelis) are mixed in a work that relies, as in the composer's style, above all on evocativity: an ideal listening for quiet moments sometimes offered us by an often frantic reality. A place for emotions in a world that is too often emotionally expensive."
crampi2.wordpress.com/2020/03/01/fallen-the-world-outside-organic-industries/

FALLEN:
Soundcloud: m.soundcloud.com/fallenproject
Facebook: The Child of A Creek/ Fallen
Instagram:_the_child_of_a_creek_fallen
YouTube: The Child of A Creek Lorenzo Bracaloni

ORGANIC INDUSTRIES (GER):
Bandcamp: organic-industries.bandcamp.com
Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/organic-industries
Facebook: Organic Industries