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Long deleted and originally only available on vinyl, this re-release has been digitally remastered, partly remixed and includes some bonus material too. Lovingly packaged in a special jewel box with mini poster reproduction of the original album sleeve.
Last days
Already out of print, last copies available "Recorded between Bologna and Providence, Last days is just Pilia and his nude guitar. Five new pieces that will bring you up to the sky in a climax of infinite grace and beauty. If you followed his previous works, you already know that Stefano is a rare voice, within his fingers, improvisation and composition meet each other in perfect harmony. This new LP offers some of the most emotionally intense guitar music we have listened to, to date. Last Days…
Come un Vecchio Incensiere all'Alba di un Villaggio Deserto
Transcendent and phantasmagorical work from one of the premier visionaries of the Italian cosmic rock continuum that includes the likes of Franco Battiato, Pierrot Lunaire, Franco Leprino and Arturo Stalteri (to name check just a few), and his work here on "Comme Un Vecchio...", while absent some of the blasted rockist momentum of his debut LP "Aria" ripples and shudders across your consciousness with such palpable psychotropic force, a contact high is almost a forgone conclusion. The deeply fol…
The Flight of the real image
The Russian Label Faria Records have re-released the MCD by ALIO DIE "The Flight of Real Image" (out of stock from a long time), in full lenght version: this is a limited edition in 1000 copies in a special cardboard package with 5 cards, inside the cover. The artwork was released by Hic Sunt Leones in collaboration with the painter Sara Luciani. The tracking list bring together the tracks originally included in the mcd, with two unrealised track with Saffron Wood, a new track with Bruno Sanfili…
Tempus Rei
The second part of Castle sonorisation serie by Alio Die, an epic and intense album with two long tracks, where the usual drones and loops, zither and field recorings go deep intoxicated into an old time surrealism. Limited 300 copies!
Aura Seminalis
The new work by Alio Die it is part of the Castle's sonorisation series, titled AURA SEMINALIS. The first track 'Sine Tempore part I-III' it's an epicentre of mystic music carachterized by a gold cathedral's atmosphere, while 'Aura Seminalis part I-II' displays an ascensional soundworld of arcane purity and rare beauty. One of the best works by Alio die so far. CD packaged in an elegant three sides digipack.
Impermanence
The new CD by STEFANO SCALA , 'IMPERMANENCE' have is focus on Tibet, where Stefano Scala went for musical researches and recordings some years ago. The magic of the cult and traditions of the country with hightest peaks in the world accompany us in this journey,on a mountain pass, walking along the pathways of the rarefied Himalayan atmosphere,escorted by a convoy of mules or yaks. Sounds can be heard of the wind and rain, voices,songs and steps of nomads of Impermanence. An album that displays …
End of an Era
A project started slowly from reciprocal esteem from musical researches and alchemical and introspective approach to sounds. Quite a dark atmospheric album, where the obscurities give the proper preparation to some clear and intense moments.
Platonica filosofia della temperanza
A land hidden from controled pleausures of rationality among soul an internal platonic part, it is the first andoncy CD by Lorenzo Scopelliti, single musical expression of Saffron Wood, rich in enthusiasm and love, emboried between discoring and long harmonious. An important page rich in inconsious caracters and sonorous pigments put togheter. In an original evocative hemisphire a thinking walk between the greek Skopelos and the mediteranean Sicily. The Friscalettu flutes, the impulsive tibet…
Mondi Sensibili
Aglaia - named after one of the Greek ‘graces’ that tends to earthly vegetation - is a brand-new name to me, though they already have a couple of albums under their belt and available from the same label. It is comprised of Fioravanti Gino and Gianluigi Toso, who are responsible for "concept and sound programming on Roland jd 800" and "editing, treatments and loops programming", respectively. I hardly know what that means and/or does. However, I do know beautifully-executed ambient music when I …
Suspended feathers
Rarely an album comes along that elicits so many different feelings one is left speechless. Suspended Feathers achieves such sacred distinction. Executed with such meticoluos attention to detail, the music of Italy's Alio Die is afine art to behold. A splendid mixture of enchanting instruments, loops and environmental treatments combine to form a multiple layered ambience ideal for meditation. The continued flow of running water through these channels symbolizes cleansing or purification. It is …
Sacred Waters
The textural ambient project Aglaia have finally released their second album. After a very good feedback from the first CD "Three Organic Experiences", "Sacred Waters" is the new offertoires to introduce more and more in the amniotic sound dimension, of their music. The layers's quality become more deep here.. in breathing circles where processed voices and acoustic instruments, appear to be evocative and fragmented like in a dream, or just like what an echo can play with sounds in an open lands…
Angel's Fly Souvenir
A Sonic Nightwalk by Alio Die and Francesco Paladino with Contributes by Jack or Jive and In Gowan Ring. 'Angel's Fly Souvenir' a CD by ALIO DIE & FRANCESCO PALADINO with contributes by IN GOWAN RING and JACK OR JIVE. An album out of any definition, music at the same time dreamy and deep, a concrete and ethereal journey, born from the pleasure to experiment, the project was starting from acoustic sounds and voices recorded throw a long tube with zither loops, flutes, and different sonorous objec…
Khen introduce silence
Taking basic improvisations only from sounds produced by Khen (mouth-organ from Thailand/Laos) and processed by different controls like filters, pan and multi-effects, Stefano Musso looks for a vibrational enviroment that is like a special point of view, where time changes his meaning and sometimes becomes absolutely relative, finding a place for contemplation, like being in the clouds and breathing with the sound of the spheres. Observe the circular harmony of seasons in his never ending fl…
Three organic experiences
Aglaia is a musical project performed by Gino Fioravanti and Gianluigi Toso. Gino Fioravanti is at the same time: therapist, writer, painter and musician and his touch with electronic music perfectly blends human and cosmic/amniotic. His writings and his studies go thorugh different fields like Alchemy, mithology, ortho-bionomy. Gianluigi Toso is a musician and a back-school teacher. He performes different musical styles, and, together with Gino Fioravanti, he has realized many cd mainly for min…
Sol Niger
This new cd contain unrealized material recorded by Alio Die in the year 2001, mostly around the time of the winter solstice. The tracks are characterized from the editing of old recordings produced in Milan in 1990, with Massimo Iadarola plays guitar and effects. The recordings were integrated with radionoise from an old Valvular Model. Some new sounds of flutes and percussions were added from Gianfranco Cualbu. The recordings were completed with a new track displays zither, muezzin voices from…
The reborn of the rebel angel
Electronics layers, and acoustic natural sounds in an active combination A bit similar to the two Sola Translatio titles (the second will be out on Hypnos next) it's more dinamic, but not rithmical at all.
Il tempo magico di Saturnia Pavonia
Italian composer Stefano Musso has been releasing his music under the name Alio Die for more than a decade now, and keeps releasing more beautiful and refined albums at a steady pace. His releases on his own label Hic Sunt Leones often contain parts of plants in the packaging, or have beautiful covers. On this album we can find 10 tracks of very meditative, warm and dreamy ambient drones that have a serene and almost magical atmosphere over them. The music is made with various instruments and s…
Leaves Net
"Leaves Net" presents short pieces, many of them recomposed from compilation appearances and other obscurities, in the third installment of his trilogy (started with "The Hidden Spring" & "La Stanze delle Transcendenza") of re-examined ambient music.
Incantamento
“Incantamento" provides two long drifting pieces of naturalistic ambience, adding the occasional pluck of guitar strings to the rich bed of aquatic sounds and droning loops. The packaging contains dried stems and flowers instead of a inlay card to underscore the organic nature of the music.