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01. ALESSANDRO CORTINI - Stambecco
02. ALESSANDRO CORTINI - La sveglia
03. ALESSANDRO CORTINI - Rispetto
04. ALESSANDRO CORTINI - Dormiveglia
05. ALESSANDRO CORTINI - Lotta
06. ALESSANDRO CORTINI - La meta
07. ALESSANDRO CORTINI - La via
08. ALESSANDRO CORTINI - La guardia
09. ALESSANDRO CORTINI - Posso
10. ALESSANDRO CORTINI - Ricadere
11. ALESSANDRO CORTINI - La sveglia (Drum Version)
ARTIST
TITLE
Risveglio
FORMAT
2LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
HOS 426LP HOS 426LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
1/10/2020

Limited 2022 restock; gatefold double-LP version. Though known as a touring and recording musician associated with Nine Inch Nails, Alessandro Cortini has really come into his own via his Forse trilogy, and his 2014 Hospital Productions debut, Sonno (HOS 412CD). For his Hospital follow-up, he maintains the grittiness and intimacy introduced on his debut, but expands on it, offering a wider spectrum of emotion and depth. Like Sonno, Risveglio was written and recorded while on tour. The drive to create intimate works during late-night downtime reveals Cortini to be committed to a personal vision beyond the call of duty. While Sonno was created using only a 202 and delay, Risveglio adds a TB303, synced to the 202. In Cortini's words, "The 303 can be such a haunting instrument used in a certain way, and I felt it completely fit the mood of the previous work I have done on the 202, especially when given a specific location in space... it's such a living instrument." The addition of TR606 gives one of the pieces a rhythmic pulse that separates it from the preceding synthscapes and renders Risveglio an altogether more dynamic affair than Sonno. With Risveglio, Cortini emphasizes the imperfections and visceral textures of electronics absent from so much contemporary solo synthesizer music. He carves out a similar space to that formed by Kevin Drumm's releases for Hospital in the worlds of drone and noise by finding the emotional and, ultimately, human voice within synthesis.