Circo Divino (2010)
This is the first collaboration by ambient master Alio Die with soundscape
creator Parallel Worlds./smaller>/fontfamily>The unique sound achieved could be
described as a hybrid sonic world, made out of bouncing electrons and air
vibrations./smaller>/fontfamily> The modular machines of Parallel Worlds are
merged with the acoustic instrumentation and drones of/smaller>/fontfamily> Alio Die, joined by the ethereal voice of
the Polish vocalist/composer India Czajkowska, resulting in a surreal, yet down
to earth, listening experience./smaller>/fontfamily>
The compositions, being, at times, minimal
and calm and, at other times, full of mystical darkness and microsound elements,
take the listener into a place were mental and physical boundaries have no need
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The beautiful Digipack artwork is by the
painter Romanie Sanchez./smaller>/fontfamily>
Since the late '80s, Stefano Musso has recorded deep, evocative experimental ambient and electro-acoustic soundscapes under the name Alio Die. Combining sweeping electronics with found sound and acoustical treatments, he has assembled a rich and varied collection of recordings for such labels as Projekt, Timebase, Heart of Space / Fathom, and his own Hic Sunt Leones label. His music is a shadowy, cavernous, intensely detailed fusion of acoustical elements, step-and-repeat sample treatments, sparse, echoing percussion, and deep, atmospheric sound design, playing ambient's static tendencies off of shifting melodic and textural passages that suggest movement without sacrificing the music's vague, entropic formlessness.” /fontfamily>
Sean Cooper, All-Music Guide/fontfamily>
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Parallel Worlds music is a combination of
dreamy/atmospheric textures with analogue rhythms and sequences. Parallel Worlds
use mostly huge analogue modulars and analogue step sequencers of the past and
present, combined with digital synthesis techniques. Bakis Sirros has been
involved in various sound design projects and is the moderator of the/fontfamily> Doepfer A100
modular users group/color>, helping in the progress of the tools for
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He also participates in some other
collaboration projects, the project “Interconnected” with the German musician
Ingo Zobel (of DRON, Signalform, Self Oscillate, Datasette, etc.)/fontfamily> and the project “Memory Geist” with the
australian electronic musician Steve Law (of Zen Paradox, Starseed Transmission,
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Bakis Sirros /smaller>/fontfamily>
www.parallel-worlds-music.com/smaller>/color>/fontfamily>
www.myspace.com/parallelworldsmusic/smaller>/color>/fontfamily>
www.myspace.com/interconnectedmusic/smaller>/color>/fontfamily>
www.myspace.com/memorygeist/smaller>/color>/fontfamily>
www.din.org.uk/smaller>/color>/fontfamily>
www.musicamaximamagnetica.com/smaller>/color>/fontfamily>
www.vu-us.com/smaller>/color>/fontfamily>
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