* Limited edition of 100 copies, gold etched title on front cover. * Andrea Penso has been active on the Italian experimental scene for the better part of two decades, working within collaborative projects like Surava and We Wait for the Snow, as well as issuing more than a dozen releases under the moniker Selaxon Lutberg - most notably on Denovali Records, where his work drew favorable comparisons to the decayed loops of William Basinski and Philip Jeck, the post-rock atmospherics of Labradford, and the cinematic drift of Stars of the Lid.

In addition to running his own imprint, the widely celebrated Invisibilia Editions, since 2020, Penso was also part of the collective behind Canti Magnetici. Increasingly, over the last few years, he has stepped from behind the curtains of monikers and begun issuing work under his own name - Ad Invisibilia (2023) and Oh! Uomo (2024), both on Holidays, revealed a composer of remarkable sensitivity working in dialogue with the Italian tradition of "mystical minimalism" exemplified by Giusto Pio, Lino Capra Vaccina, and early Franco Battiato.

Organic Shelter belongs to a different, perhaps more elemental chapter in Penso's practice. Here, field recordings captured in wild, overgrown landscapes are processed through decaying magnetic tape, stretched into loops that seem to accumulate silence as much as sound. The title itself holds a gentle paradox: shelter implies protection, yet the organic is always in a process of transformation, growth, decay.
The ruins dreamed of here are not architectural failures but thresholds - places where human intention has been quietly reclaimed by something older and more patient. Over the course of its single, side-spanning arc, warped fragments of the natural world emerge and submerge, as though heard across vast expanses of time. There is something of Basinski's contemplation of mortality here - the awareness that to record on tape is to inscribe impermanence into the very medium. But where The Disintegration Loops documented an accidental elegy, Organic Shelter feels more like a deliberate retreat: an invitation to imagine what remains when we are no longer present to witness it.

Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi, this vinyl edition returns the work to the realm of the tangible - an object to be held, a duration to be inhabited without interruption. In an age of infinite scroll and fragmented attention, Organic Shelter insists on the opposite: presence, patience, the slow unfolding of time in a space where the distinction between listening and disappearing grows beautifully unclear.

Originally released by Invisibilia Editions in 2021 in a minuscule cassette edition of 50 copies, now available on vinyl for the first time. Limited to 100 copies.