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GOCCIA

Label: Home Normal (J/UK)

Catalog# No.67

Format: CD, album

Released: September 30th, 2016

Bandcamp page:  Home Normal on Bandcamp


The title Goccia ("Drop" in English) comes from a dialogue in Tarkovsky's Nostalghia where Domenico says: "one drop plus one drop makes a bigger drop, not two". I composed this music in 2011, right after completing Tarsia, of which it is a direct evolution.

Tracklist:

01 The Rule of Forgetting

02 Immobile, blu

03 Los ojos de

04 Rondine

05 Apart

06 Candles (Tuscany, Spring)

composed, performed, mixed and

produced by Giulio Aldinucci


mastered by Ian Hawgood

cover art by Peter Nejedly

package design Ian Hawgood



Special edition with insert to front featuring photography by Peter Nejedly, obi credit strip, hand-embossed printing, unique vintage large format negative, extra download code slip and packaged in a vintage glassine bag.


Quotes from some album's reviews:

"Goccia is a very unique and rewarding effort from an artist who consistently challenges himself as few others do."

FOREIGN ACCENTS (USA)


"Et dans cette poursuite de l’inconstance menant à la révélation dans le brouillard, Goccia se pose comme un compagnon durable qui ne cessera de s’ornementer de nouveaux sons à chaque nouvelle lecture, fidèle à sa vocation première de surprendre et de nous faire réaliser qu’on ne le connaîtra jamais complètement."

TARTINE DE CONTREBASSE (F)


Goccia was included on the 2016 best album list of Sonofmarketing.

SONOFMARKETING (I)


Goccia was incuded on the best 2016 albums list by Foreign Accents.

FOREIGN ACCENTS (USA)


Goccia was incuded on "rearview mirror: 2016" by Music Won't Save You.

MUSIC WON'T SAVE YOU (I)


"Le creazioni di Giulio Aldinucci non hanno mai smesso di sorprendere per il loro essere vorticose, quasi magiche, capaci di condurre per mano l’ascoltatore in un altrove geografico senza nome ma, paradossalmente, esistente. 9/10"

ECTRONIQUE.IT (I)


"It’s a fantastic and kaleidoscopic sound palette that defies any strict genre definition"

AMBIENTBLOG (NL)


"Le imponenti cattedrali sonore ricreate non riempiono gli ambienti come dovrebbe fare la musica ambient, non ne carpiscono la musica come il precedente "Agoraphonia", ma sembrano sovrastarli per spazzarli via. 7,5"

ONDAROCK (I)


"Un universo vorticoso in cui non esistono certezze o punti di riferimenti, un caleidoscopio magico dal quale lasciarsi incantare e trasportare attraverso territori mutevoli costantemente rapiti da un senso di meraviglia."

SOWHAT (I)


"A commenter on this record’s Bandcamp has written that Aldinucci is “teaching us that the unexpected can be the most beautiful gift of all if you welcome it like an old friend”, and I don’t think I can put it better than that -- a lot of the sound design on this record should be shocking, even gruelling, but it’s put together with zero transgression -- everything feels like it should be there, be it the wafts of hiss, the momentary plucks, or the huge chords -- however they’re processed with one another, it feels easy to put your trust in Aldinucci’s mesmerizing architecture. "

NORMAN RECORDS (UK)


"Il lavoro dall’impatto più maestoso finora realizzato dall’artista toscano, ma anche quello più denso di dettagli armonici e texture sintetiche mai così dense di coinvolgimento e spunti cinematici."

MUSIC WON'T SAVE YOU (I)


"Het levert een mysterieus en gruizig geheel op, waarbij je compleet uit de realiteit wordt weggesleurd. De filmische muziek laat veel aan de verbeelding over en is van een ongrijpbare pracht."

DESUBJECTVISTEN (NL)


"Una magia che puntualmente si avvera con i lavori di Aldinucci, quasi che la lievità e la poesia soffusa contenuta nei suoi dischi vadano ad espandersi come dolce profumo, al solo tatto con l'oggetto desiderato. E' attenta complessità di suono racchiusa in un'unica goccia di silenzioso benessere, è puro APPAGAMENTO."

ROCKERILLA (I)