Re: Made in Italy
Posted: 20 Sep 2017 12:33
Alessandro Cortini today shares ‘Vincere’, the second track to be revealed from his sixth solo LP, AVANTI, due for release on 6 October digitally and on double 12” vinyl via The Point of Departure Recording Company, a new label in partnership with [PIAS].
Speaking about ‘Vincere’, Cortini says: “Vincere” (to win) follows the main theme of AVANTI as a whole: memories that are gone but leave a sense of sweet melancholy, embellished by the very thing that makes them faulty. Vincere is about youth, about pure happiness and utter lack of fear....Just look at that smile (that’s a little me in the video)...getting back to that purity should be everyone’s ultimate goal in life.”
The tracks of AVANTI evoke a feeling of nostalgia through the warmth of their instrumentation and samples from Cortini’s grandfather’s archive, which bookend each track. Take opener ‘Iniziare’ which, with its undercurrent of bass and swelling string-like motifs, is like a sepia-tinged photograph brought to life – at once elegiac and uplifting. Or the wistful ‘Nonfare’ that, with its fuzzy, organ-like tones veiled by noise, sounds like a faded memory. While on ‘Vincere’, the lush layering of effervescent melodies with choral harmonies paints a picture of a carefree, sunlit scene from childhood, now painfully out of our reach.
After impressing Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor at a series of auditions, Cortini joined the band’s touring line-up in 2005 and later contributed to the group’s 2008 album Ghosts I–IV and 2013’s Hesitation Marks. Despite NIN’s busy touring schedule, Cortini found the time to release a trilogy of double-LPs, named Forse, as well as two albums, Sonno and Risveglio, both on Dominick Fernow’s Hospital Productions label. The latter two initially started life as sleep aids which Cortini would play to himself while on tour. Only later were those makeshift lullabies fleshed out into ambient soundscapes of the borderlands between wakefulness and sleep.
On his follow-up AVANTI, Cortini has turned his attention to a different aspect of our inner lives – memory. The recordings that are sampled throughout the album offer us a deeply personal glimpse into Cortini’s childhood but they also have the effect of stir-ring our own recollections. “I wanted the recordings to facilitate this connection at an emotional level with the listener in the same way I feel connected to it personally,” he says. With AVANTI, Cortini has created a soundtrack not just for his own past but also for ours.
Alessandro Cortini’s sixth solo album AVANTI is due for release on 6 October via The Point of Departure Recording Company
The Point Of Departure Recording Company is a new independent label based in the U.K. The first release is the new album from Alessandro Cortini.
Future releases over the next few months include records by Western Skies Motel, Toy Piano (a new project from composer Matt Dunkley) & the debut from Broken Shadows.
Pre-Order “AVANTI” on double 12” vinyl and digitally here:
http://smarturl.it/ACortiniAVANTI
Track List
01. Iniziare
02. Perdonare
03. Aspettare
04. Non Fare
05. Vincere
06. Perdere
07. Finire
Live Dates
05 Oct – Berghain – Berlin, DL
13 Oct – Conne Island – Leipzig, DL
26 Oct – Delay in Universal Loop – Benevento, IT
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