Ten tracks, one subject. Edmondo Giuliani's Il Mare: Musica Con Strumenti Elettronici was originally conceived in 1972 as the score for an obscure sea documentary, recorded in Amedeo Tommasi's own studio and issued on the near-invisible micro-label Dischi Egede as part of a library series titled "Brani Per Sonorizzazione". The brief couldn't have been simpler - music for the sea - and what emerged from it is one of the more singular electronic records of the Italian library era. Sonor Music Editions' reissue, limited to 500 copies on 180 gram vinyl with renewed artwork, brings it back for the first time.

What Giuliani built here sits at an unusual intersection: library music by function, but genuinely experimental in execution. The synthesizers and electronic instruments don't merely evoke water - they become it, or something close. "Sonar Tre" opens with pulsing, depth-sounding tones. "Alghe" drifts in slow oscillation. "Abissi" descends into frequencies that seem to absorb light. "Iridescenze" catches and scatters it. Track titles work like diver's log entries - "Coralli", "Scandaglio Zero", "Guizzi" - and the music follows their logic with unusual consistency, as though the whole album were a single, immersive dive. Luigi Zito directed the sessions, lending the project a structural clarity that keeps it from dissolving entirely into atmosphere.

Released as part of Sonor Music Editions' aquatic library triptych alongside Mare Romantico and Bruno Zambrini's Racconti Di Mare. A genuinely strange and beautiful record - and one whose origins in documentary commission only deepen the intrigue.