Alessandro Sgarito, Roberto Mares

*200 copies limited edition* “Rifugio per mille persone” is a place before it is an album. A sonic shelter built by Alessandro Sgarito and Roberto Mares starting in November 2024, through a slow process of listening, layering, and waiting. The nine tracks that make up the record move between ambient, post-rock, electroacoustic, and new classical music, shaping suspended, essential soundscapes permeated by silence. Contributions to the album come from Helga Raimondi (Dictaphone), Laura Bisceglia (Teho Teardo, Blixa Bargeld [Einstürzende Neubauten]…), Fabio Capanni (Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Peter Principle, Luc van Lieshout of Tuxedomoon, Harold Budd), and Fabio Puletti—presences that enter the sound with delicacy, expanding its space and depth. The title originates from a real place: a World War II air-raid shelter located in the garden of Roberto Mares in Belluno. Designed to accommodate up to one thousand people, this underground space becomes a metaphor for the album itself—a place of protection, suspension, and shared listening. “Rifugio per mille persone” does not seek urgency or noise. It asks for time, attention, and presence. It is music to be inhabited, like a shelter: slowly, allowing sounds to do their work.