Artist:
Alessandro Cortini
Title:
Nati Infiniti
Label:
Mute
Cat#:
STUMM888
Release Date:
04th October 2024
Format:
Vinyl, download & streaming
Tracklist:
A1.
I
A2.
II
B1.
III
B2.
IV
B3.
V
Press Info:
Italian musician, instrument-builder, producer and composer, ALESSANDRO CORTINI, has shared the first piece of music from his forthcoming release. Nati Infiniti – 40-minutes of hypnotic work, separated into five movements – debuted as an immersive audio installation that ran across four floors of the Museu de Lisboa’s Fábrica da Moagem, a disused flour mill.
Watch the video, with imagery by Marco Ciceri, to the penultimate piece of Nati Infiniti, ‘IV’, which cascades and surges towards the album’s finale below.
Nati Infiniti reimagines the installation – commissioned by Sónar Lisboa 2022 – capturing the ambience of the original piece, where each of the four floors of the cavernous mill evoked a different state through Cortini’s sound design. Constantly unfolding as the listener travelled through the building, the album harnesses the movement of the piece, highlighting the interconnectedness of all things.
The work – which utilises the Strega instrument that Cortini co-designed with Make Noise – evolves across 40 minutes, and was mixed and mastered by Marta Salogni (Björk, Depeche Mode, Lucrecia Dalt) into five movements. This interpretation of Nati Infiniti – Italian for “born infinite” – will be available on 4 October 2024. The album’s art, designed to mirror this concept, will be offered on vinyl (featuring an embossed silver mirror board sleeve), CD (with a clear varnished gatefold mirror board sleeve), and digitally.
Cortini debuted the live audio-visual performance of Nati Infiniti at Berlin’s Atonal Festival resulting in high praise and, after a series of sold-out performances – each showcasing an improvised version of Nati Infiniti with no two concerts ever the same – Cortini will embark on a tour of North America and Europe throughout ’24 and into ‘25 – with more dates to be added.
Alessandro Cortini is one of the foremost figures of contemporary electronic music, best known for his haunting, atmospheric work. A longstanding member of Nine Inch Nails (his tenure has stretched from 2005 to the present day), he is a highly prolific artist, releasing a steady stream of his own heady music on luminary labels including Mute, Hospital, and Important Records for the past decade. Throughout his shadowy rise to fame, he has collaborated with the likes of Lawrence English, Daniel Avery, and Merzbow. He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – the only Italian musician ever honoured – and found time to create the Strega (used on his previous album, Scuro Chiaro, which Pitchfork described as “pitched somewhere between purgatory and the planetarium… consistently managing to thrill and surprise”) and the forthcoming module, Bruxa, with Make Noise. Additionally, he has soundtracked catwalk shows for fashion giants Alexander McQueen, Dior, and Fendi, composed for Disney/Hulu’s hit show The Bear, and remixed tracks for Depeche Mode, Mogwai, Death Cab For Cutie, Yann Tiersen, and Vatican Shadow. Balancing dark ambience with smoky, pulsing rhythms, his compositions are perfectly restrained, textured, and mesmeric. His vast and expansive work spans across genres, showcasing his versatile talent and innovative approach to music.
Snippets:
Video:
“IV”
Special:
“Fact Mix 505”
Recommendations:
all releases on Mute & sublabels
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Alessandro Cortini @ Bandcamp
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Alessandro Cortini @ Bandcamp
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Websites:
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Mute
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