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CD out of stock iTunes  Holographic Codex Alio Die, Lorenzo Montanà 2015 Projekt PRO311 (CD) Reviewed by Music TAP, Prog Archives, Textura Crossing styles and boundaries, Holographic Codex is a mixture of atmospheric ambience, IDM sequences and psybient textures; these cult Italian musicians create a blending of ritualistic soundscapes and technogenic landscapes. Alio Die has over 60 releases, some on America's Projekt label and others on his own Hic Sunt Leones label. Montana recorded five collaborations with Pete Namlook on Pete's German FAX label, plus released 10 solo albums with various European imprints. Continued...

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CD out of stock iTunes  Deconsecrated and Pure Alio Die 2012 Projekt PRO270 (CD) DECONSECRATED AND PURE is an evocative liturgy from the realm where electronic music meets acoustic drones, found objects, sacral voices and field recordings. Continued...   1.  Layers of Faith MP3   2.  Obliterated Alcove MP3   3.  Peel Away This Mortal Coil MP3   4.  Cerulean Facade MP3   5.  De-altared MP3

CD out of stock iTunes  Eleusian Lullaby Alio Die 2007 Projekt PRO208 (CD) ELEUSIAN LULLABY blends the natural, warm and earthy ambient compositions of Alio Die with the elegant, neo-classical voice of Martina, merging notes and silence into an expanded dreamscape. This is lullaby music like an aural caress from darkness into the light. The combination of the vocal melodies with the abstract qualities of the loops and instruments creates a suspended near-dream space, intimate and sensual at the same time. Continued...   1.  The Oniroid Sleep MP3   2.  A Drone Song for Alienor MP3   3.  Eleusian Lullaby MP3

CD  $16.98  ON SALE, $8.00  iTunes  Echo Passage Vidna Obmana, Alio Die 2006 Projekt PRO190 (CD) Reviewed by Phil Derby, AmbiEntrance Vidna Obmana and Italian soundsculptor Alio Die unite their vision and realized this introspective work of sixty minutes. At times droning and abstract, sometimes ritualistic and ethnic. "ECHO PASSAGE clearly lives up to the reputations of Obmana and Musso while offering both ample opportunity to work outside of their ordinary parameters" -- Adam M. Bialek / Outburn (USA) Continued...   1.  Echoes of Light     2.  A Slip of Darkness     3.  The Passage     2006 reissue in Digipak.

CD out of stock iTunes  Khen Introduce Silence Alio Die 2003 Hic Sunt Leones HSL025 (CD) Taking basic improvisations from sounds produced only by a Khen (a mouth-organ from Thailand / Laos) and processed by different filters, pans and effects, Stefano Musso looks for a vibrational enviroment that is like a special point of view, where time changes its 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 its never-ending flow. It speaks like old poetry that is familiar to the soul. (Artist's description)   1.  Puntar orecchio alle sfere MP3   2.  Gli ossidi del divenire MP3   3.  Accarezzando soma come si fa con una piuma MP3   4.  Fu' cosi'il sogno a tessere radici a terra ed a provvedere al nutrimento MP3   5.  Una vena preziosa MP3   6.  Introduce silence     7.  In vulvica risonanza MP3

CD out of stock iTunes  Sunja Alio Die, Zeit 2003 Hic Sunt Leones HSL024 (CD) Magic has blown its precious spores into the air. A human rite, humble and quiet, has evoked a red hot globe that gently illuminates the path toward the borders of SUNJA, the dream place where all vibrations start. Sometimes the light comes down from the sky, clear like a crystal. Sometimes it climbs slowly from the earth's depths, but it's always comforting. Crossing the thresholds of SUNJA is like landing on an uncontaminated island, its white sea-shores lapped by tepid foamy waters, inebriated with wide floral smells and saltiness in secret inland places and in caves dug from time, on top of the plateau from where it's possible to see beyond... SUNJA is creative strength enclosed in two long tracks of incredible intensity, rich in levels of knowledge, pure enchantment and beauty. The deep sound has an extraordinary symbolic and evocative power with a supreme purification owing to millenial percolations across the rocks. Music shines, beholds, resounds at the bottom of ourselves, lives and spreads out. We realize, in listening, that a light warmth closes in upon us, everything loses its own original sense, the gates open... the road is beaten. (Artist's description)   1.  The Gates Are Open MP3   2.  At the Threshold of Sunja MP3   hand-numbered, packaged with collages and hand-made prints

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CD out of stock iTunes  The Sleep of Seeds Alio Die, Saffron Wood 2003 Hic Sunt Leones HSL 026 (CD) With its special hand-made package, containing seeds, leaves and other organic material, no two copies are alike. The title "The Sleep of Seeds" is also the opening track of this macroscopic journey into a world which spontaneously engages us when we travel through it... a link between life and earth, a passageway between time and change... an organinc sonic itinerary in which an hourglass often makes no sense, with only the sound of articulated and fragmentary notes... 50 minutes to wander between a seed and a grain of soil, into an infinite space while listening to a far away earth-longing sound. Recorded in Savona Italy August 2002 with various flutes, tubes, accordion, found objects, rattles, shells, bells and drones. Loops, effects, editing and mastering on ProTools at Temple Studio Milano, Spring 2003.   1.  The Sleep of Seeds MP3   2.  Awakening in a New Form MP3   3.  A Dream of Mother Ground MP3

CD out of stock iTunes  Prayer For the Forest Alio Die, Antonio Testa 2002 Green House Music GHM201 (CD) – rare last copies! This is a real favorite around here, sharing the same enchanting atmosphere as HEALING HERB'S SPIRIT. The percussive element is a bit stronger, and while its not specific to one region or style, the processed hand drums shift between somewhere in Africa and South America, then beyond to the new world. The gurgling soundscapes and organic textures give the feeling that you might find moss growing on your speaker ports by the time this CD is over. This and HEALING HERB'S SPIRIT are a must-have if you are drawn to the ethno- shamanic sound blends.   1.  African Dream MP3   2.  A Mechanical Dust Sphere     3.  Ancestor's Breath MP3   4.  Walking Through the Camp MP3   5.  Prayer For the Forest     6.  An Active Foggy Pathway MP3

CD out of stock iTunes  Apsaras Alio Die, Amelia Cuni 2001 Projekt (CD) "Apsaras is breathtakingly beautiful, combining soothing electronic textures, drones, and organic sound samples from Italian soundpainter Alio Die (Stefano Musso) with the amazing North Indian dhrupad singing of Amelia Cuni." – Ink19.com. This one is currently Steve's favorite CD.   1.  Ambhas MP3   2.  Island Of The Rose Apple Tree MP3   3.  Aapaha MP3   4.  Water Memories MP3   5.  Churning Of The Ocean MP3   6.  Apsaras MP3

CD out of stock iTunes  Leaves Net Alio Die 2001 Hic Sunt Leones HSL 019 (CD) – Italian import, artist-direct The third part of an ambient trilogy, a creative path of the music of Alio Die presented with artwork and text by painter Janusz Gilewicz. Natural and acoustic sounds and noises, electronically treated and reworked, are integrated in a meditative and spiritual context that often - in the feeling - become close to a prayer. This music is rich with hidden sounds, with layers of elements to discover at each listening. Alio Die's artful music creates a melting of technology and mysticism, like a new ritual with echoes of a medieval time, deep and grounded in introspection.   1.  Still Rapture MP3   2.  Breathing Again MP3   3.  First Perception MP3   4.  Leaves Net     5.  A Chaos of Desire MP3   6.  A Fragment of Fire MP3   7.  The Way of Fire MP3   8.  Concerning Simple Fire MP3   9.  Régénération     10.  Desire MP3

CD out of stock iTunes  Healing Herb's Spirit Alio Die, Antonio Testa 1999 Crowd Control Activities Crowded13 (CD) Alio Die is well known and respected worldwide for his ultra organic-soundscapes that often use extensively-processed natural sounds as the foundation for his hallucinogenic sound gardens. Here with fellow Italian Antonio Testa, the direction moves towards the shamanic as Testa brings his long list of ethnic percussion instruments to the mix. This is an outstanding stream of consciousness trip carried along by gentle rhythms, muted drones and Alio Die soundscapes hovering like a rainforest canopy. Continued...   1.  Shuar MP3 9:46   2.  Rahien MP3 8:05   3.  Dreaming MP3 5:12   4.  Icaros MP3 7:43   5.  Yacaruna MP3 10:25   6.  Vimuktita MP3 6:29   7.  Turiya MP3 7:37

CD out of stock iTunes  Le Stanze della Trascendenza Alio Die 1999 Hic Sunt Leones HSL 016 (CD) – Italian import, artist-direct This is a deeper look into the microscopic views that Also Die creates with a sense of ceremony and ancient sacredness. As with PASSWORD FOR ENTHEOGENIC EXPERIENCE and LEAVES NET, the foundation is drawn from acoustic and environmental sounds deconstructed and processed into a landscape of organic forms and visceral textures.   1.  Alternate Realities MP3   2.  Cicada's Loop MP3   3.  Il Fondo del Pozzo MP3   4.  Melancholic Roots MP3   5.  Desire (instrumental) MP3   6.  Molecular Dance MP3

CD out of stock iTunes  Password for Entheogenic Experience Alio Die 1998 Hic Sunt Leones HSL 015 (CD) – Italian import, artist-direct This 1998 continuous longform piece is a standout solo work from Italy's sound artist Alio Die. His artistry and understanding of organinc inner-space music is alive on this understated and gently intense flowing soundscape. Created to support his own psychoactive journeys, it creates a warm and shadowy nest to curl up within. This is among Steve's favorite Alio Die solo releases. Continued...   1.  Password for Entheogenic Experience MP3 64:01