Huuuge Tip! **100 numbered copies in poster cover with printed inner sleeve, 180g audiophile vinyl** Since its launch roughly five years ago, the Rome based imprint, Anomala Soundscapes, has quietly mined Italy’s rich context of experimental electronic and electroacoustic music, focusing their energies toward the densities of meaning and possibility activated by these practices and territories of sound, via releases by artists like Mark Schaub, Daniele Pecorelli, and Rumore Austero. The label’s latest, Andrea Marutti and Carlo Giordani’s “Impressioni Organizzate di Ansie Liquide” and Maath’s “Vaco” - both issued in highly limited vinyl editions of 100 numbered copies each pressed on 180g audiophile vinyl - push this modus operandi toward new heights. Each blurring the boundaries between ambient music, environmental sound, and electroacoustic practice in brilliantly engaging ways, these two are sure to etch Anomala Soundscapes’ activities on our consciousness for some time to come.

Andrea Marutti and Carlo Giordani are both longstanding figures of the Italian music scene. Marutti is widely known for his work in the fields of experimental, ambient, and dark ambient music, as Amon - whose “Akh”, released by Nashazphone, we celebrated last year, Never Known, Hall of Mirrors (with Giuseppe Verticchio / Nimh), Sil Muir, Molnija Aura, and Lips Vago, as well as for noteworthy solo releases and collaborations with Fausto Balbo and Raffaele Serra, issued under his own name. Active since the early '90s, Marutti has also been responsible for running the Afe Records label for almost twenty years, releasing an incredible amount of music by renowned artists like Maurizio Bianchi, Bad Sector, Maeror Tri, Telepherique, De Fabriek, Ultra Milkmaids, Aidan Baker, John Hudak, and many, many more. Carlo Giordani is an electronic engineer with a background in geophysics that led him to develop signal processing software and algorithms for managing electromagnetic fields. This physical and direct relationship with the Earth is the basis of his sound research, now several decades old, focused on the collection of field recordings reworked in the form of electroacoustic soundscapes and complex textures.

Building on twenty years of friendship, and more than a decade working together, “Impressioni Organizzate di Ansie Liquide” (Organized Impressions of Liquid Anxieties) is Andrea Marutti and Carlo Giordani’s latest offering, featuring specially commissioned new mixes of selected tracks originally issued on CD by Silentes/St.an.da. and Taâlem in 2020, with Anomala Soundscapes’ new deluxe edition marking their debut on vinyl. The origins of the album date back to 2011, when Andrea Marutti was asked by the filmmaker and cultural agitator, Massimo Indellicati, to compose soundtracks for a series of experimental short films entitled “Aquology - Oceano interiore”, centred around aquatic and science fiction themes. Intent on intervening with his own practice in electronics and synthesis, he asked field recordist, engineer, and software designer, Carlo Giordani, to come on board. While the film project was only realized in small fragments, Marutti and Giordani’s creative relationship bore fruit, bringing them together regularly over the subsequent years, each pushing and expanding the other’s sound practice into new territories. Melding their distinct sensibilities into a single, palpable force, “Impressioni Organizzate di Ansie Liquide” is the result of an enduring process of reworking material produced by their collaborations between 2011 and 2023.

Resting at the junctures of noise, ambient music, and auditory research, “Impressioni Organizzate di Ansie Liquide” is a sonic gesture that shifts perception; where the organic transforms into the otherworldly and the synthetic bubbles with life. The collision of two highly individualized creative practices, built from a vast pallet of sonority across its breadth, the locations of source and the intervening hand shift in and out focus, gathering as an expanse of ambience and events that gives the impression of being guided by chance occurrences and responses of its own making.

Amplifying the incidental into the mystical and metaphysical, “Impressioni Organizzate di Ansie Liquide" seems to embark upon a challenge to how we locate the meaning of music and art. Unified by the thematic vision of water that first brought Marutti and Giordani together, the album culminates as a brilliant series of evolving, abstract images, alluding to the embryonic fluids that give way to life. Drifting long tones, buzzing electronics, and woven textures of ambiguous sound, rumble and dance between the foreground and distance, penetrated by punctuations drawn intermittently from Marutti’s synths and Giordani’s deft snapshots of the world.

Brilliant and strikingly beautiful amongst its casts of darkness and tension, “Impressioni Organizzate di Ansie Liquide” is an immersive, languid realm, filled with elegant, poetic beauty. Issued in a highly limited vinyl edition of 100 numbered copies pressed to 180g audiophile wax, housed in a 'poster cover' with printed inner sleeve, not only is it a fantastic window into the incredible context of experimental music currently unfolding in Italy, but it’s one of the most engaging rethinkings of contemporary ambient music we can call to mind.