Alessandro Cortini Playlist

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BLANK PICTURE - Johnny

From the album Incongruous, available on cassette on TONN Recordings Bandcamp. guinaepig.bandcamp.com/album/incongruous

Mastering by Thanos Mylonas
Image © David Copeland
Design by Niuew NDG

Incongruous

BANDCAMP

Irgum - Burgum (from the TONN RECORDINGS cassette Incongruous)

Dunes

MelonCollieFlourPower

Voice Sample :
https://soundcloud.com/notlayzi/summer-17-mastv3

SenSen - Herejía

oletusarvo x SSS - Coconut Voodoo (Goth Boots Mix)

Release date: 9/19/2024
https://music.imusician.pro/a/qnReVjLz
https://eq-sub-label.bandcamp.com/album/water-re-mastered

Discovering Sounding, an ambient artist from Italy.

Sounding's sonic evolution continues in this remastered sophomore album, first released on June 21, 2023. While carving out his unique space in ambient music, the artist Sounding, holds a particular admiration for Mark Nelson of Pan American, appreciating the diverse influences and unique sounds in Nelson's work.

Fotis Kyriazidis' expert remastering breathes new life into these immersive, filmic soundscapes. We hope Sounding's atmospheric and evocative music continues to captivate listeners, offering an intriguing journey into the realm of ambient and experimental electronic soundscapes.

All tracks composed, produced by Sounding, and mastered by Fotis Kyriazidis
Cat number: EQU008 - EQ, Sublabel
© Sounding | ℗ EC Underground 2024

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Sounding - Cactus

M23 - 28

out now on Hospital Records. 

Reviews:

http://www.spin.com/2015/07/review-alessandro-cortini-risveglio/
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20802-risveglio/



06 La Meta

05 Lotta

04 Dormiveglia

03 Rispetto

01 Stambecco

Ekin Fil continues her quietly complex dream-pop oeuvre on Maps. For many years now, this Istanbul musician has been writing mysterious and haunting songs, rich in heavy-reverb effects and an introspective torpor. With each successive album, her songwriting has blossomed through broader instrumentation and more intricate melodic phrasing, though the somber atmospherics and ghostly manifestations remain a judicious constant. Minor-key, tear-stained notes of piano, organ, and guitar veer along elliptical orbits as a soft-whisper lilt of Ekin’s voice narrates more by emotive decree than by literary couplet. 

Maps addresses the distance and dislocation of the self from the bustling center of Istanbul, where Ekin FIl (neé Ekin Üzeltüzenci) had once called her home. Having spent her first winter on a relatively quiet island in the Sea of Marmara (while still in the greater metropolitan umbrella of Istanbul), Maps  is “lonely, different, kind of isolated,” according to Ekin, who also noted that the island had “too much silence around. There is no other choice but to concentrate, I guess.” Her poetics of silence on her previous recordings had been noted as an antidote or a dream capsule of sound in response to Istanbul’s cauldron of politics, culture, and philosophy that has been boiling almost since the beginning of civilization. Maps bends that maritime silence into wind-swept smudges that complement her already spacious compositions.  

The saddest songs of The Durutti Column excised of rhythm and those few plunges into sorrow by Harold Budd make for apt comparisons to Maps, in addition to the drone-on classics of Grouper, Slowdive, and Sarah Davachi.

Maps

Ekin Fil // Nocturnal Arc

Alessandro Cortini is an Italian musician, producer, composer, and instrument builder. 

Cortini is one of the foremost figures of contemporary electronic music, best known for his haunting, atmospheric work. Alongside being a longstanding member of Nine Inch Nails, he is highly prolific and has released a steady stream of his own heady music on luminary labels including Mute, Hospital, and Important Records for the past decade. Throughout his shadowy rise to fame, he has collaborated with the likes of Lawrence English, Daniel Avery and Merzbow (to name a few). Balancing dark ambience with smokey, pulsing rhythms, his compositions are perfectly restrained, textured and mesmeric. 

Cortini was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020 through his work with Nine Inch Nails, making history as the only Italian musician to have ever been honored with this recognition. 

In 2021, in collaboration with boutique synth builders Make Noise, Cortini released his own, custom-designed, semi-modular synth, “Strega” (Italian for ‘witch’). That same year, he used Strega to build his latest full length, Scuro Chiaro [Mute], which Pitchfork described as “pitched somewhere between purgatory and the planetarium ... consistently managing to thrill and surprise”. 

In addition to years of extensive worldwide touring, Cortini has also soundtracked fashion shows including Alexander McQueen, Dior, and several of Fendi’s presentations. In 2022, he exhibited a high-concept audio installation called “Nati Infiniti” for Sonar 2022 at Museu de Lisboa’s “Fábrica de Moagem.” A live version of “Nati Infiniti” is set to debut at Berlin Atonal in 2023.

Alessandro Cortini’s music has been licensed for use in television, film and documentaries, games, and commercials, including FX’s hit show The Bear, “Thank You Very Much” a documentary about Andy Kaufman, Samsung, BMW, Sony, and Netflix. Remixes have also been a part of Cortini’s identity – remixing the likes of Depeche Mode to Mogwai to Death Cab For Cutie, Yann Tiersen to Vatican Shadow, and more between and beyond.

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