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
Aglaia
Intangible Opacity Cd Digi
between the eyelids, the splendor of the moon.."
Tracking List:
• Magnetoionica
• Polar cap absorption
• Riometro
• Jy
• Fon
• Aereoplancton
• Whistlers
• Intangible opacity
• Protonosfera
Music composed and played by Gino Fioravanti, recorded in Lissone between december 2011 and march 2014
The electronic sound have lost any artificial appearance and seem to be generated directly by the flow of blood, breath, meditation and dreams ..
The unfathomable depth of these albums does not fail to amaze me, his regenerating power and ability to harmonize different levels , has qualities that go beyond, the music ranges with atmosphere and interior spaces that open up, and follow each other from one track to another, respecting the invisible stages of imaginary multidimensional paths in their incessant and relentless pursuit.
I can hardly restrain a spontaneous enthusiasm that is not common to a lot of ambient music, and I think "Primeval nebula" and "Intangible opacity" will find a broad consensus among both fans of Aglaia, that whole scene of electronic and the environment music, which apparently has achieved full expressive vitality here, in a solution of continuity with transcendence.
The cd comes in an elegant 3 sides digipack, LTD 300 copies.
ENG: Aglaia is a great project from Italy, but probably still not appreciated as much as it deserves. The artist releases his albums in Stefano Musso’s Hic Sunt Leones, and it seems that his work remains in Alio Die’s shadow. Aglaia could be even bigger, but I think that Gino Fioravanti, sometimes aided by Gianluigi Toso, doesn’t really care about worldwide recognition – I figure he’s fine with his current position.
By all means however, Aglaia isn’t an Alio Die clone. Although the points of convergence can be easily noticed, Aglaia sounds less organic and prefers to focus on electroacoustics and the creation of an atmosphere by the use of more or less sophisticated electronics. This is no different in the case of “Intangible Opacity”, one of the two Aglaia albums recently published by Hic Sunt Leones.
On “Intangible Opacity” Gino Fioravanti dares to visit the place where the Earth’s atmosphere ends and the infinity of space begins, following the physical and chemical processes that occur in the ionosphere. The sound is based on warm but at the same time somehow distanced synthetic textures, and classical “el-music” as we used to say in Poland. I suspect that Fioravanti didn’t use any other instruments or field recordings on the album. Synths only.
Despite the strict nature of the music, it has a soul. Composed of zeros and ones, enchanted in the tiny box filled with chips and integrated circuits, but not allowing for the treatment of “Intangible Opacity” as only a virtually emotional, but in fact dry and mathematical record of the aforementioned processes that continually start, progress and end tens of thousands of kilometers above our heads. There’s no blackness, the sound is painted with thousands of hues, the blue and green of the earth being the parent colors. The title composition, the second to last, probably contains the most decent amount of space; the horizon seems to stretch widely, though all the tracks remain on a relatively equal level.
After several listens, I conclude that there are earlier Aglaia releases which I cherish more and will come back to more often in the future. I miss some element raging on the surface of Mother Earth. A wind shaking the barley, or wild fires. A thimble of organic sound appears in “Protonosfera”, the last one: Gino Fioravanti, at least for a while, gets back to where you can breathe fresh air, as if in spite of the title.
It’s still worth buying a ticket to the place from where there’s still a possibility to return. Aglaia still holds the fashion.
[Reviewed by stark / Santa Sangre Magazine]
