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Giulio Aldinucci Materia album cover


MATERIA

Label: Karlrecords (D)

Catalog# KR117

Format: LP, album

Release date: September 18th, 2026

Bandcamp page: Karlrecords on Bandcamp


Materia focuses on the idea of sound as a matter, which can be shaped into complex forms by removing excess material from the sound mass.
The album originates from the dichotomy between accumulation and subtraction, creating compositions out of frequency-dense audio material in order to unearth what is “hidden” inside the raw sound mass.
Unlike sculpture, in music time can be matter too by shattering sounds into milliseconds and recompose them with a different fragments order, going beyond the traditional notions of rhythm and duration.

Tracklist:

01 Not Here

02 In A Shadow Of Noise

03 Cenere E Onde Lontane

04 Come Luce, In Sogno

05 Never

06 Sera

composed and produced by Giulio Aldinucci


mastered by Kassian Troyer at D&M, Berlin

photography by Thomas Herbst

layout & design by kaidoh


 



Quotes from some album's reviews:

"In the hands of Aldinucci, ambient music is elevated beyond the status of aural backdrop the term can suggest."

THE WIRE (UK)


"Every sound appears carefully weighed, every layer stripped back until only its essential behaviour remains. Nothing feels ornamental."

A CLOSER LISTEN (USA)


"Materia finds its human center here. The album’s grandeur springs from this dizzying proportion: an immense sound holds a tiny gesture, perhaps a mouth drawing breath, perhaps a syllable worn away by time."

IGLOO MAGAZINE (USA)


"Materia, with its sonorous vocal choirs and thunderous drones, is also a beautiful record, and one with a decidedly cinematic bent"

FIRST FLOOR (E)


"Giulio Aldinucci compose une musique ambiante d'une exquise et diaphane complexité décantée. Une splendeur!"

INACTUELLES (F)


"Aldinucci firma un disco esigente, calibrato, vivo, dove la tecnologia serve una sensibilità acustica pienamente matura."

ROCKERILLA (I)


"Ein wahrhaft meisterhaft komponiertes und klanglich gestaltetes Ambient-Meisterwerk, das sich nahtlos in eine Reihe von von der Kritik gefeierten Alben "

RADIOHOERER (D)


"On pourrait dérouler les superlatifs sur la musique de Giulio Aldinucci, tant celle-ci est chargée d’émotions et de chair, taillée dans un bloc à la minéralité organique, être vivant à l’autonomie mouvante et au destin projeté vers l’infiniment grand. Vital."

SILENCEANDSOUND (F)

"Hier kreist er um die Vorstellung (die Tatsache?), dass Klang etwas Materielles ist, eine Masse, ein Stoff. Etwas, das sich erweitern lässt oder aufbrechen, um sein Inneres offenzulegen. Dabei anders als Lehm oder Stein handhabbar in kleinsten und flexibelsten Zeitsplittern. Doch zugleich als Klang-Skulptur auch Träger von Form, beweglicher Form, und von jenem vagen Etwas, das ich – und wohl nicht nur ich – als Klangpoesie wahrnehme. "

BAD ALCHEMY (D)







Giulio Aldinucci Materia LP packaging



Giulio Aldinucci Materia vinyl