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Friday, September 10, 2010
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ARTIST: DIE, ALIO & AMELIA CUNI
TITLE: Apsaras
LABEL: PROJEKT |
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| DESCRIPTION: With 15 different collaborations to his name, Italian ambient soundscape constructor Alio Die presents his most stunning release to date. His work with Robert Rich and vidnaObmana have set the stage for the unusual beauty of this dramatic work, celebrating nature and the magic of the human voice. In Hindu mythology, the Asaras are female spirits of nature, usually water nymphs. Flowing in the waters, these celestial nymphs come out of the waves like the first seeds of the mind: desire. Talented artistically, the Apsaras are very beautiful; charming musicians and dancers for the pleasure of the Gods. “Italian singer Amelia Cuni has a voice like a drink of mountain stream water, a voice you might expect to find operatng in popular song. But her area of expertise is that most ancient and rigorous of Indian styles, dhrupad singing. Cuni’s vocal clarity and dusky sweetness sit oddly but perfectly in tis austere context.” -Clibe Bell, The Wire Magazine, April 2001 |
| ITEM NUMBER: 03945 |
FORMAT: CD |
PRICE: $12.99 |
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ARTIST: VIDNA OBMANA / ALIO DIE
TITLE: Echo Passage
LABEL: PROJEKT |
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| DESCRIPTION: Vidna Obmana and Italian soundsculptor Alio Die unite their vision and realized this introspective work of sixty minutes. At times droning and abstract, sometimes ritualistic and ethnic. "Echo Passage clearly lives up to the reputations of Obmana and Musso while offering both ample opportunity to work outside of their ordinary parameters" - Adam M. Bialek / Outburn (USA) |
| ITEM NUMBER: 07774 |
FORMAT: CD |
PRICE: $13.99 |
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ARTIST: ALIO DIE & MARTINA
TITLE: Eleusian Lullaby
LABEL: PROJEKT |
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| DESCRIPTION: Eleusian Lullaby is a sensual ethereal-ambient collaboration between Italian soundsculptor Stefano Musso (aka Alio Die) and Italian singer Martina Galvagni. It is the third release in Projekt's series of Alio Die's vocal collaborations following 2001's Apsaras (with Amelia Cuni) and 2005's Mei-Jyu (with Jack or Jive).
Eleusian Lullaby blends the natural, warm and earthy ambient compositions of Alio Die with the elegant, neo-classical voice of Martina, merging notes and silence into an expanded dreamscape. This is lullaby music like an aural caress from darkness into the light. The combination of the vocal melodies with the abstract qualities of the loops and instruments creates a suspended near-dream space, intimate and sensual at the same time.
The opening track, 'The Oniroid Sleep,' displays a foggy atmosphere where the voices wash beneath the acoustic layers of the cithara, sitar, kalimba and field recordings. On the second track, 'A Drone Song for Alienor,' the voice is clearer and more upfront with all its powerful beauty apparent creating an intense and fragile song with a neo-classical approach. The third song, 'Eleusian Lullaby,' was created as a totally free improvisation of psaltery and voice; the text is sung in a dialect of the Engadina language (Switzerland). Drones and loops were added later from the original recordings.
60 minutes of music, composed by acoustical improvisations with voice, psaltery, zither, cithara, bells, metals and field recordings. The original recordings were made in locations in the woods and in ancient medieval places then processed and layered by Alio Die at Temple Studio in 2005-2006.
Listen to this trance music in the dark and be lead to a tranquil earthly garden. Like in the best lullabies, you are caressed as you are transported to a mysterious parallel soundworld of peace and harmony. |
| ITEM NUMBER: 09176 |
FORMAT: CD |
PRICE: $13.99 |
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ARTIST: ALIO DIE & JACK OR JIVE
TITLE: Mei-Jyu
LABEL: PROJEKT |
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| DESCRIPTION: Alio Die's ambient soundscapes with Chako's seductively layered ethereal vocals
MEI-JYU is an ethereal-ritual-ambient collaboration between Italian sound manipulator Stefano Musso (aka Alio Die) and the Japanese duo Chako and Makoto Hattori (Jack or Jive). On MEI-JYU, introspective ambient music by Musso joins with Chako’s ethereal-otherwordly vocals. Opening parallel dimensions and suppoting the dreamy quality of Chako’s voice, the music is derived from acoustic zither sounds, improvisations done on the waters of a brook, and environmental sounds of bells or radio. The atmospheres of the tracks vary, but the glowing quality between sounds and voice is decidedly original here. Growing up from the dark ambient sounds and loops, the music flows harmoniously.
The word “Meijyu” derives from the Zen practice. Meijyu resides in one’s palm and it is like a jewel, a precious stone, a clear crystal. Everyone has Meijyu inside. People look for shining objects in the outside world. If we focus on Meijyu with all our might, it will shine through us; Meijyu then teaches us that man can shine from the inside.
After nearly 15 solo albums a piece, an appreciation for each other's music formed a natural bond between these artists. On MEI-JYU, songs can be relaxing and melancholy, dark ambient, multi-dimensional, bucolic, ritual, minimalistic. The voice is always inspired and spontaneous; the quality of a sincere prayer opens to different rooms full of emotions. A child-like pure quality sometimes creates a sweet tension, but the unique voice can also be quite strong and lightly dramatic. The ritual approach to music by these artists creates something beautiful here, delicate and deep, magic landscapes for the soul. |
| ITEM NUMBER: 06576 |
FORMAT: CD |
PRICE: $13.99 |
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ARTIST: SOLA TRANSLATIO (Alio Die + Opium)
TITLE: Mother Sunrise
LABEL: HYPNOS |
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| DESCRIPTION: Italian ambient sound master Alio Die (best known for his previous collaborations with ambient & experimental artists like Robert Rich & Vidna Obmana), and younger Italian newcomer Opium, collaborate under the project name Sola Translatio on their first project for Hypnos, MOTHER
SUNRISE. Combining an entrancing mix of natural recordings (water, wind, soil, forest) and electronic textures, MOTHER SUNRISE conveys a descent into the natural world at its grittiest, most organic, and most truly
"alive." Usually ambient & atmospheric music is primarily electronic, or perhaps utilizes guitars or other acoustic instruments, with electronic treatments. While this recording does integrate such conventional instrumentation in part, it derives its truly unique flavor through the liberal use of natural "location" atmospheres (recorded in the Far East as well as Italy), as well as organic percussive elements. Opium is a newcomer, mostly unknown in the ambient & atmospheric music scene, but Alio Die (especially through his excellent collaborations with ambient stars Robert Rich and Vidna Obmana, but also through his proprietorship of the Hic Sunt Leones label on which most of his solo material has been released) is one of the increasingly respected & beloved artists of our genre. Taking a truly unique and personal
approach to this work, Alio Die arrives at a sound which is distinct -- truly rich, complex, and substantial enough to bear repeat listening.
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| ITEM NUMBER: 03750 |
FORMAT: CD |
PRICE: $11.99 |
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ARTIST: ALIO DIE / FRANCESCO PALADINO
TITLE: Nocturnal Sessions
LABEL: HIC SUNT LEONES |
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| DESCRIPTION: This approximately one hour video from the sessions at Temple Studio collects fragments of free pure improvisations by Alio Die with Chako of Jack or Jive (Japan) and In Gowan Ring (USA), as well as sounds extracted from the new CD "Angel's Fly Souvenir" by Alio Die and Francesco Paladino, who also take part in the sessions. The pictures are elaborated and mixed with films that Paladino made in different part of the world.
Paladino also did the first audio editing, while the final processing and audio mastering were done by Alio Die.
The dreamy environmental images melt with the sonorous experiments in Milano and in Val Trebbia to display the atmospheres of the sessions where these artists meet with the different approaches they have to introspective music.
Sonorous visualizations evoke places where time glides with immutability in a different way than we usually conceive so the colours, the objects and the faces, the musical instruments, the landscapes and the animals with the flow of the video, create a feeling closer to a dream.
Special photos taken during the sessions by Francesco Paladino are also viewable (on PC or Mac only).
Francesco Paladino is working on video collaborations with Drekka, Rivulets and Stone Breath.
This DVD produced by Francesco Paladino and Hic Sunt Leones, is available in limited quantities.
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| ITEM NUMBER: 06287 |
FORMAT: DVD |
PRICE: $11.99 |
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ARTIST: ALIO DIE & IN GOWAN RING & JACK OR JIVE & FRANCESCO PALADINO
TITLE: Nocturnal Sessions
LABEL: HIC SUNT LEONES |
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| DESCRIPTION: This approximately one hour video from the sessions at Temple Studio collects fragments of free pure improvisations by Alio Die with Chako of Jack or Jive (Japan) and In Gowan Ring (USA), as well as sounds extracted from the new CD "Angel's Fly Souvenir" by Alio Die and Francesco Paladino, who also take part in the sessions. The pictures are elaborated and mixed with films that Paladino made in different part of the world.
Paladino also did the first audio editing, while the final processing and audio mastering were done by Alio Die.
The dreamy environmental images melt with the sonorous experiments in Milano and in Val Trebbia to display the atmospheres of the sessions where these artists meet with the different approaches they have to introspective music.
Sonorous visualizations evoke places where time glides with immutability in a different way than we usually conceive so the colours, the objects and the faces, the musical instruments, the landscapes and the animals with the flow of the video, create a feeling closer to a dream.
Special photos taken during the sessions by Francesco Paladino are also viewable (on PC or Mac only).
Francesco Paladino is working on video collaborations with Drekka, Rivulets and Stone Breath.
This DVD produced by Francesco Paladino and Hic Sunt Leones, is available in limited quantities.
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| ITEM NUMBER: 09387 |
FORMAT: DVDR |
PRICE: $11.99 |
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ARTIST: ALIO DIE / AGLAIA
TITLE: Private History of the Clouds
LABEL: INFRACTION |
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| DESCRIPTION:
"Infraction Records curates this new entry to the already considerable body of collaborations involving Alio Die. There have already been communings with the likes of Robert Rich, Mathias Grassow, and Vidna Obmana. Here, though, Stefano Musso's fellow-travellers are lesser known but closer to home. Aglaia is an Italian duo with a trio of albums on his Hic Sunt Leones label; Gino Fioravanti and Gianluigi Toso come trailing credentials in therapy, writing, painting, and teaching, to say nothing of alchemy and ortho-bionomy. In contrast with Musso, who has fully two decades of musical endeavors behind him, they're comparative novices. But you wouldn't have thought it. Theirs is a music whose apparent stasis enfolds within it endless subtle micro-variations. They bring with them from previous HSL releases an appealing aquatic/amniotic sound dimension, characterized by a combination of electronic sounds (analogies as the sleeve notes would have it) and processed acoustica moving as if in virtual circular breathing. Slow waves of soundflow suggestive of psycho-acoustic energy (if you're a believer, otherwise just go with the flow) come with peripheral fragments of sonorities, carried on the wind, drifting as if at the edges of sleep, recalling the way echo plays in open landscapes.
That's part of the method of this animist collective's historical unfolding of its subjects' textures and trajectories, yielding a series of luminous aerated tracts. Animists see a spiritual force residing in every element of the physical world. Nature is believed to be alive, imputing an inner life to leaves, lakes and the like. Dwelling on Private History of the Clouds brings this to mind before even entering its audio world, particularly in light of Alio Die's predilection for "passion, nature and awakening" and Aglaia's for worlds of feeling ("mondi sensibili," as a previous album was called). But, lest this kind of talk scare off those averse to nature-hugging, note that the musical Grace inspiring this project is more a familiar of Pandit Prath Nan and Brian Eno than of Wyndham Hill and Hearts of Space. |
| ITEM NUMBER: 10276 |
FORMAT: CD |
PRICE: $14.69 |
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