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Since the past due ’80s, Stefano Musso has recorded deep, evocative experimental ambient and electro-acoustic soundscapes beneath the name Alio Die. Merging sweeping consumer electronics with found audio and acoustical remedies which have echoed with the latest functions of composers such as for example Robert Wealthy, Tetsu Inoue, and Brian Williams, Musso offers assembled a wealthy and varied assortment of recordings for such brands as Projekt, Timebase, Fathom, and his personal Hic Sunt Leones label. Located in Milan, Musso analyzed art and digital composition right now there, founding Alio Die in 1989 like a live performance take action and finally self-releasing a debut, Under an Holy Ritual, in 1992. Enthusiastically received in his house nation, Holy Ritual extended Musso’s international existence considerably in 1993 when it had been licensed by the favorite U.S.-centered goth/darkwave label Projekt. The bond brought a crossover target audience to Musso’s music, and — as well as artists such as for example Asmus Tietchens, Vidna Obmana, Coil, along with a Make — helped prepared ears for such middle-’90s dark ambient/isolationist clothes as Lull, Last, Download, and Lustmord. Musso consequently released three extra solo albums, like the 1st full-length — Suspended Feathers — released by the famous, limited-run Amplexus label. A shadowy, cavernous, intensely complete fusion of acoustical components, step-and-repeat sample remedies, sparse, echoing percussion, and deep, atmospheric audio style, Suspended Feathers offered Musso at his absolute best, playing ambient’s static tendencies from moving melodic and textural passages that recommend movement without compromising the music’s hazy, entropic formlessness. Furthermore to full-length and compilation looks, Musso has added to produces by Vidna Obmana and Steve Roach, and teamed up with Robert Abundant with 1996 to record the full-length function Fissures for Stephen Hill’s Fathom label. Even more collaborative efforts made an appearance during the fresh millennium, including Echo Passing with Vidna Obmana in 2000, Apsaras twelve months later on with Amelia Cuni, and Mei-Jyu in 2005 with Jack port or Jive.
