Genres: Meditative, Relaxation, Ambient, Electroacoustic Ambient RIYL: Alio Die, Popul Vuh, jarguna
For his fourth Projekt Records release, Italian sound-artist Aglaia creates nearly 90 minutes of entrancing deep ambient meditations. While stylistically building upon the electro-acoustic drone of his previous work, Aglaia’s Gino Fioravanti focusses on a total hands-on performance style for DARKNESS MEETS RED. “For the first time,” he remarks, “I dedicated the utmost attention to the quality of every single sound, every single note. There is nothing superfluous and nothing missing. For many years I used arpeggiators and sequencers to build the long drones of my ambient-cosmic music; this album was entirely played and meditated. Every note was ‘taken in’ and dropped into absolute darkness, waiting for a new one to be born.”