New forthcoming releases:
Robert Davies - Woodland Alcoves
Aglaia Hymns
Cdr Ltd art-edition 99 copies - Program of upcoming releases..
New Release! AGLAIA Nights in Nubiland Cd
Five Thousand Spirits
Mesmeric Revelation
Untitled Tracks: 01 . 02 .. 03 ... 04 ....
05 .....
Composed and recorded by Raffaele Serra e Stefano Musso in 1997. Mixed on Pro Tools July 1997. Raffaele Serra: Digital and analogue Synthesizer, harmonium, samplee, tapes. Alio Die: sampler, treatments, voice, textures and drones. Graphic by Hic Sunt Leones Painting on page four by Daniel Crokaert
Mesmeric Revelation (1998)
5000Spirits is drone manipulator Alio Die's collaboration with Raffaele Serra.Together they craft a subtle, melodic study of mesmeric proportions, with are sounding delicacy not usually heard in the dark reality of Alio Die. Synth augmented silence made palpable: Five untitled tracks, no guidelines for perception (no tracks entitled, say, "Into The Mystical Valley Of Petrified Dreams", or some such concoction, which could possibly influence one's perception of the sounds incorporated therein, as opposed to the bungee drop approach of untitled tracks) except in the ears of each individual listener.Raffaele Serra and Stefano Musso (Alio Die) specialize in rich, full-bodied sonicscapes that swirl and surround, tethered to crevices in the void, whether via chips of plastic crumbling off of the drone-chiseled facing of a radiant sonic plateau (track three), or sailing on obsidian waters, the horns of nigh text inguished by wooden mallet on steel thunder strikes (track five), or simply capturing within the layered synth net, the cadences of resolute, comforting solitude (track four). A subtly powerful journey that opens the ears to the vast unexplored landscape within the mind...
JC Smith
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