Alio Die
Stefano Musso studied art and electronics in his home town of Milan, Italy, and began performing ambient, electro-acoustic music under the name Alio Die in 1989. Characterized by evocative acoustic sounds manipulated and tendered electronically, Alio Die's work builds intimate soundscapes tied to the mystery and majesty of life and nature. His first CD "Under an Holy Ritual", released on his label Hic Sunt Leones in 1992 and re-released on Projekt in 1993, was received with international acclaim.
Sunja
Magic has blown its precious spores in the air. A human rite, humble and quiet, has evoked a red hot globe that gently illuminates the path toward the borders of Sunja, the dream place where all vibrations start. Sometimes the light comes down from the sky, clear like a crystal. Sometimes it climbs slowly from the earth's depths, but it's always comforting. Crossing the thresholds of Sunja is like landing on an uncontaminated island, furrow its white sea-shores lapped by tepid foamy waters, bee…
Sol Niger
This new cd contain unrealized material recorded by Alio Die in the year 2001, mostly around the time of the winter solstice. The tracks are characterized from the editing of old recordings produced in Milan in 1990, with Massimo Iadarola plays guitar and effects. The recordings were integrated with radionoise from an old Valvular Model. Some new sounds of flutes and percussions were added from Gianfranco Cualbu. The recordings were completed with a new track displays zither, muezzin voices from…
Il tempo magico di Saturnia Pavonia
Italian composer Stefano Musso has been releasing his music under the name Alio Die for more than a decade now, and keeps releasing more beautiful and refined albums at a steady pace. His releases on his own label Hic Sunt Leones often contain parts of plants in the packaging, or have beautiful covers. On this album we can find 10 tracks of very meditative, warm and dreamy ambient drones that have a serene and almost magical atmosphere over them. The music is made with various instruments and s…
Leaves Net
"Leaves Net" presents short pieces, many of them recomposed from compilation appearances and other obscurities, in the third installment of his trilogy (started with "The Hidden Spring" & "La Stanze delle Transcendenza") of re-examined ambient music.
Incantamento
“Incantamento" provides two long drifting pieces of naturalistic ambience, adding the occasional pluck of guitar strings to the rich bed of aquatic sounds and droning loops. The packaging contains dried stems and flowers instead of a inlay card to underscore the organic nature of the music.
La Stanze Della Tascendenza
Second part of the ambient trilogy, combine old and new tracks with new techniques, melanchonic, deep, ancient. The tracks have great fluidity, and the sonorous research touch top of high intensity. The different sounds, from electronic treatments or from natural enviromental recordings, are casting on only one canvas, on that Stefano plays like sorcerer preparing his magic draught. Like a good alchemist, that know always the right ingredients, Alio Die carry us through stimulating and pictoresq…
Password for Entheogenic Expirience
A never ending drone of intense meditative music, with trated acoustic sounds and loops. Alio Die explore somewhere else places finding a sound support for psychoactive journeys. A long, beautiful track (64 min.) of floating ambient music from this popular Italian electronic artist.
Aurea Hora
"Aurea Hora" 10" include two unrealised tracks recorded in 2005. There is a very special release that includes the two Alio Die issues on SmallVoices: the reissue of his fantastic masterpiece "Under an Holy Ritual" (SVV004), very well known ritual ambient music milestone on 12" LP and the totally new and exclusive Alio Die studio work titled "Aurea Hora" (SVV007) released on vinyl 10". Both vinyls (here in clear wax) are enclosed in an amazing and special de-luxe plexiglas Box Set.