GIULIO ALDINUCCI – Real
Format: 180gr LP / limited edition tape, 50 handnumbered items /download
Release date: october 14th 2022
https://karlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/real
Italian sound artist GIULIO ALDINUCCI returns with his 4th album on KARL: “Real” is again a truly masterfully composed and sound-designed ambient masterpiece and a more than worthy follow-up to the critically acclaimed “Borders And Ruins” (2017), “Disappearing In A Mirror” (2018) and “Shards Of Distant Times” which all made it onto several year’s best lists.
With now his 4th album for Karl, the sound artist from Siena / IT has proved a steady and prolific artist on the label roster. And each time, GIULIO ALDINUCCI delivers a new ambient masterpiece that clearly carries his signature as composer / producer and yet reveals a slightly different approach to his modus operandi. ALDINUCCI’s massive layers of sound, built from field recordings and an array of electronic gear, blend droney ambient with heavenly voices / sacred music that create an atmosphere of a consolatory melancholy – alien, but with a graspable presence of human souls. And each album deals with a topic that ALDINUCCI came across in his observations of and reflections about today’s society.
In the words of GIULIO himself:
“The digital media we live with shape and define reality by filtering it, letting us run the risk of living without our personal and unique one. My new album expresses a need of something unmediated and authentic. “Real” is a reflection on the endless possibility of sonic transformation, the ability we have to create new realities transmuting the soundscape around us and the inner soundscape inside us, even only by imagining it. A (deep)real experience permeated by dreamy lyricism.”
Tracklist:
A1. Deep Space Shelter
A2. Come In Un Respiro
A3. As The Horizon Disappears
A4. Smoke Over The River
B1. Mythological Void
B2. Every Word, In Summer
B3. Hyperobject A
B4. Asymptotic Embrace
Credits:
all tracks composed and produced by Giulio Aldinucci
mastered & vinyl cut by Kassian Troyer at D&M, Berlin
artwork concept by Thomas Herbst
layout & design by kaidoh
cover photography by Giulio Aldinucci