Aglaia: Darkness meets red (Digital)

Product Description Darkness meets red Disc 1 1 Thin border 2 Plankton 3 Delicately luminous 4 Environmental changes Genres: Meditative, Relaxation, Ambient, Electroacoustic Ambient RIYL: Alio Die, Popul Vuh, jarguna For his fourth Projekt release, Italian sound-artist Aglaia creates nearly 90 minutes of entrancing deep ambient meditations. While stylistically building upon the electro-acoustic drone of his previous work, Aglaia’s Gino Fioravanti focusses on a total hands-on performance style for Darkness meets red. “For the first time,” he remarks, “I dedicated the utmost attention to the quality of every single sound, every single note. There is nothing superfluous and nothing missing. For many years I used arpeggiators and sequencers to build the long drones of my ambient-cosmic music; this album was entirely played and meditated. Every note was ‘taken in’ and dropped into absolute darkness, waiting for a new one to be born.” Gino continues: The color red, featured in the title of this new collection, represents warmth and dynamism. Red is the force that animates the enveloping beauty of black and cosmic space. In yoga traditions, black is tamas, inertia, while red is rajas, dynamism. Together they generate sattva, a harmonic vibration. The great novelty lies in the use of sounds that are so close in expressiveness and in the way they were played to those generated by acoustic and traditional instruments. The repetition of certain musical phrases was not created by loops, that is, by repetitions of the same musical phrase, but is given by the “affection” I felt in listening, playing them, for certain phrasings. The result is a continuous dynamism, each wave never similar to the previous one. Each pause, long or short, never similar to the one before it or the one preparing to come. Each note was held and repeated as long as it remained sensitive. The mixing and layering of sounds allowed me to learn to recognize the depth of space and the fluctuating state of the mind during meditation. Each thing happens simultaneously with others, often with a good deal of autonomy and distance. This is blackness. You will be able to feel also the pleasure of sound, the flow of beauty that I wanted to evoke. It was the first time while composing I felt the pleasure generated by sound vibrations. I believe that this state can be transmitted. As I played, images came, memories, dilations presented themselves. I was taken, at times, by slight states of euphoria. This is the red. Song by song: 1 Thin border — It is a kind of overture. An opening. I tried to sketch landscapes. Within these landscapes I inserted shapes, conjured beings and dilated borders. 2 Plankton — Plankton is also a boundary. A reality that merges with water. It too is a thin boundary. However, it becomes flow, a cascade of life. This wonder is the flow that becomes fragment. It vibrates. The piece is an environmental dance. A universal breath where black begins to become light. I hear in “Plankton” the symphonic evolution that loves to flow, swim and bloom. 3 Delicately luminous — It is the most acoustic-referenced track. The most sparkling. Ascents and descents characterize it. Delicacy paddles in a sea of light. This track is the one in which ambient phrasing and flowing carpets combine harmoniously. 4 Environmental changes — It is an acoustic, symphonic ambient. With this composition, I developed an interest in the dialogue between various sound dimensions. Static changes, drones, phrasing combine together. I finish this album with a fair sense of satisfaction. Something that has never happened until now. Artist Bio Gino says, “When I was a teenager I composed more dramatic and romantic music, but over time I chose an aerial music — that is music reminiscent of the motions of the air. Light without heavy emotions. Nothing that captures. These are vibrations that transport consciousness into a free space. Music of the air. Now in my early 60s, I have been teaching yoga and meditation and body-oriented techniques for 35 years. When creating, I want my music to be warm electronics with a warm breath that extends into space. A music that does not offer scenarios but perspectives.” Projekt release: September 27, 2024 love it, share itfacebook twitter pinterest google